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Smokehouse Day at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm

L.W. Paul Living History Farm 2279 Harris Short Cut Rd, Conway, SC, United States

Visit the L. W. Paul Living History Farm to celebrate the pig! Winter was the time of year for curing pork on the farm and a season when the family was dependent on home preserved foods during the cold winter months. Join us as staff and volunteers demonstrate how pork was preserved and prepared on the family farm during the early twentieth century in Horry County. Demonstrations will include smoking and salting meat, making pork sausage, cooking on a wood burning stove, making lye soap, grinding grits, blacksmithing and more.

Wash Day at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm

Experience life on the one horse family farm in Horry County from 1900-1955 at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm. Join us for Wash Day on Tuesday, January 29th from 9:00 AM-3:00 PM to see how clothes would have been washed using a scrub board and wash pot. From 11 AM-1 PM, staff will demonstrate starching and ironing clothes using powdered starch and an iron heated on a wood burning stove.

Hallowed Ground: Primitive Camp Meetings of the South Carolina Lowcountry, Part I: Cattle Creek and Cypress Camp Meetings.

Horry County Museum 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, United States

The 2019 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with Hallowed Ground: Primitive Camp Meetings of the South Carolina Lowcountry, Part I: Cattle Creek and Cypress Camp Meetings. This film explores various primitive religious camp meetings-the earliest founded in the late 1700s by the horseback evangelist, Bishop Francis Asbury, along with African American evangelist, Harry Hosier, who rode with him to conduct “brush arbor” worship services for white planters and their slaves. In the Dorchester County pine forests of South Carolina these camp-meetings have “tents” built and owned by long-standing extended families from their respective communities. The campgrounds are all located within a 20 mile radius of each other near St. George, SC. At five different times each year these camp-meetings draw more than 3,000 congregants from extended families and friends of families nationwide. These congregants stay for a week and are invited to the “tents” of family members, the worship services, and to enjoy the Southern home-cooked meals prepared 3-times-a-day on wood stoves in each tent during the seven days of camp-meeting.

Hallowed Ground Part 1

Horry County Museum 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, United States

The 2019 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with Hallowed Ground: Primitive Camp Meetings of the South Carolina Lowcountry, Part I: Cattle Creek and Cypress Camp Meetings. This film explores various primitive religious camp meetings-the earliest founded in the late 1700s by the horseback evangelist, Bishop Francis Asbury, along with African […]

Junior Farmers at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm

L.W. Paul Living History Farm 2279 Harris Short Cut Rd, Conway, SC, United States

Experience life on the one-horse family farm from 1900-1955 at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm. Junior Farmers is a free, family friendly program open to children ages 5-10 and focuses on the traditions of an early 1900s farm family. Join us on February 2nd from 9:00 AM-10:00 AM to learn about the importance of the blacksmith in the farming community. Children will learn about the different tools that a blacksmith uses and creates, and witness a blacksmith demonstration from Horry County Museum Director Walter Hill. Maximum of 15 children, parents must remain with children. To participate, sign up with Marion Haynes at haynesm@horrycounty.org or 843-915-7861.

Farm Harvest Day at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm

L.W. Paul Living History Farm 2279 Harris Short Cut Rd, Conway, SC, United States

Experience life on the “one horse farm” in Horry County from 1900-1955 at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm. Join us on February 2nd from 9:30 AM until 10:30 AM for Farm Harvest Day. Before the days of oil and electricity, most small farm houses were heated by burning wood. Cutting wood was as important as harvesting any other crop that was grown on the farm. Join us to try your hand at sawing wood and see how it was sawn into blocks using a cross cut saw.

Donald Kirkpatrick to give lecture on Fossils of the Pee Dee Region

Horry County Museum 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, United States

The Horry County Museum and The AVX Foundation present a lecture by Donald Kirkpatrick at 1:00 PM on March 2nd on vertebrate fossils of the Upper Cretaceous (Age of Dinosaurs) Period in the Pee Dee. Featuring fossils from his own collection, Mr. Kirkpatrick will discuss what areas he looks for fossils in, and the types that can be found in the Pee Dee. The public is invited to bring fossils from their personal collections, share stories of where they found their items and discuss what they may have.

Jail, No Bail

Horry County Museum 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, United States

The 2019 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with Jail, No Bail, part of the Carolina Stories Series produced by SCETV. On January 31, 1961, black students from Friendship Junior College in Rock Hill, SC walked into McCrory’s, sat at the lunch counter, and ordered hamburgers and soft drinks. They were […]