Horry County Museum

This is Brookgreen Gardens
2022-04-06 13:00 UTC | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The 2022 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with This is Brookgreen Gardens. Part of the Carolina Stories Series by SCETV, this film explores Brookgreen Gardens, one of South Carolina’s most beloved landmarks, located in Murrells Inlet, near Myrtle Beach. History, nature and art come together in a program that is both beautiful and informative, revealing Brookgreen’s enduring importance to the Palmetto state. A distinctive collection of American figurative sculpture, education programs for all ages, dazzling gardens, rare natural habitats, a long and fascinating history—are the things that make Brookgreen Gardens such a unique treasure, nestled between the Waccamaw River and the sea.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, April 6th, at the Horry County Museum, located at 805 Main Street in Conway.
The Horry County Museum Documentary Film Matinees will continue throughout 2022. For a list of films, visit our website at www.horrycountymuseum.org. For more information, call the Horry County Museum at 843-915-5320 or e-mail hcgmuseum@horrycounty.org.

Spring Planting Day
2022-04-09 09:00 - 12:00 | L.W. Paul Living History Farm, 2279 Harris Short Cut Rd, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
Visitors of all ages are invited to join us Saturday, April 9th from 9 AM-12 PM at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm for our annual Spring Planting Day. Stop by to learn about the different types of plants that would have been important to the farm family and how they would have prepared their spring garden. We’ll have a variety of demonstrations throughout the Farm including cooking, planting, activities for children, and more!
The L.W. Paul Living History Farm is open Tuesday-Saturday 9 AM-4 PM and teaches the history of the Horry County farm family from 1900-1955. The farm is free and open to the public and is located at the corner of Hwy 701 North and Harris Short Cut Road in Conway, SC. For more information, call the L. W. Paul Living History Farm at 843-915-5321 or email hcgmuseum@horrycounty.org.
For a full list of programs and events at the Horry County Museum and L.W. Paul Living History Farm, visit www.horrycountymuseum.org.

Fallen Heros
2022-04-13 13:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The 2022 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with Fallen Heroes, part of the Carolina Stories Series from ETV. This 30 minute film features the World War II stories of William Farrow and Thomas Dry Howie. William Farrow was one of 80 airmen who volunteered to fly 16 B-25 Mitchell bombers in the Doolittle Raid, taking off from the USS Hornet aircraft carrier, bombing Japan, and then landing in China. Thomas Dry Howie was given command of the 3rd Battalion and sent to take the pivotal town of Saint-Lo in the Battle of Normandy.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, April 13th, at the Horry County Museum, located at 805 Main Street in Conway.
The Horry County Museum Documentary Film Matinees will continue throughout 2022. For a list of films, visit our website at www.horrycountymuseum.org. For more information, call the Horry County Museum at 843-915-5320 or e-mail hcgmuseum@horrycounty.org.

Closed County Holiday
2022-04-15, 2022-04-16 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States

The Baruchs of Hobcaw
2022-04-20 13:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The 2022 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with The Baruchs of Hobcaw, part of the Carolina Stories Series by SCETV. In 1718, 17,500 acres of pristine land in Georgetown County became a colonial land grant, or barony, from the King of England to one of the Lords Proprietors. The Native Americans called it “hobcaw,” meaning between the waters. Purchased by Bernard Baruch in 1905, Hobcaw Barony eventually passed into the hands of Baruch’s daughter, Belle, who created a foundation to protect it from development. This film tells the story of the Baruchs and Hobcaw Barony, which is today home to USC’s Baruch Marine Field Laboratory and Clemson’s Belle W. Baruch Institute of Coastal Ecology and Forest Science.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, April 20th, at the Horry County Museum, located at 805 Main Street in Conway.
The Horry County Museum Documentary Film Matinees will continue throughout 2022. For a list of films, visit our website at www.horrycountymuseum.org. For more information, call the Horry County Museum at 843-915-5320 or e-mail hcgmuseum@horrycounty.org.

Free Children’s Program at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm
2022-04-23 09:00 - 11:00 | L.W. Paul Living History Farm, 2279 Harris Short Cut Rd, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
Join us for free 30 minute Saturday activities at the Farm! Parents can sign children up for a half hour session between 9 AM-11 AM. Group sizes will be limited to help ensure social distancing. On April 23rd children will discuss which insects they think are friends and which ones are foes. We’ll also make a notebook of local insects using rubbing plates that children can color at home.
For information about available times and to register, contact Marian Calder at 843-915-7861 or email calder.marian@horrycounty.org. Available sessions are 9, 9:30, 10 or 10:30, please specify which session you would like upon registering.
The L.W. Paul Living History Farm is open Tuesday through Saturday, 9 AM-4 PM and is located at 2279 Harris Short Cut Road, Conway, SC 29526.

Chris Boyle-Lowcountry Agricultural & Convivial Societies.
2022-04-23 13:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The Horry County Museum and the AVX Foundation present a program by local author and historian Christopher Boyle on Saturday, April 23rd, on his new book Lowcountry Agricultural and Convivial Societies
“Throughout the first century of South Carolina’s settlement, rice was an important crop but the rice industry did not experience its first boom until the 1720s and 1730s. This book explores the purpose of the social organizations as well as the moral, economic, cultural, and political challenges of the Antebellum Georgetown rice planters. Within the protected confines of their organizations, planters felt safe discussing local and national politics, advancements to their educational system, and agricultural and livestock improvements to better compete with the Industrial North. The alliance of “brothers of the soil” helped solidify South Carolina’s Lowcountry politically. The agricultural alliances of the region promoted Southern Nationalism and provided one pillar for Southerners to the American Civil War.”
Christopher C. Boyle is the international baccalaureate history teacher at Socastee High School in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and a part-time teaching associate at Coastal Carolina University in Conway. Upon graduation from Coastal Carolina University with his bachelor’s degree in history, he further studied history at Winthrop University where he graduated in 1996 with his Master of Arts degree in American history. In addition to having written numerous articles for scholarly journals, Boyle is the author of Mansfield Plantation: A Legacy on the Black River and The Road to Secession in Antebellum Georgetown & Horry Districts.
The program will begin at 1:00 pm in the McCown Auditorium located at 805 Main Street, Conway S.C. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 843-915-5320 or email hcgmuseum@horrycounty.org. To view a full list of programs, visit our website at www.horrycountymuseum.org.

Forgotten Founder: Charles Pinckney.
2022-04-27 13:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The 2022 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with Forgotten Founder: Charles Pinckney. Part of the Carolina Stories Series by SCETV, this film is an historical visualization of the biography of Charles Pinckney, whose life serves as the basis for much of where and how we live today. Through the use of original digital artwork, period illustrations, historical documents, dramatic reenactments, and studio interviews, this program weaves a tapestry that tells the story of a true public servant whose contributions to the birth of our nation and state are matched by no other historical figure.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, April 27th, at the Horry County Museum, located at 805 Main Street in Conway.
The Horry County Museum Documentary Film Matinees will continue throughout 2022. For a list of films, visit our website at www.horrycountymuseum.org. For more information, call the Horry County Museum at 843-915-5320 or e-mail hcgmuseum@horrycounty.org.

Free Children’s Program at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm
2022-04-30 09:00 - 11:00 | L.W. Paul Living History Farm, 2279 Harris Short Cut Rd, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
Join us for free 30 minute Saturday activities at the Farm! Parents can sign children up for a half hour session between 9 AM-11 AM. Group sizes will be limited to help ensure social distancing. On April 30th kids will learn how to make homemade ink using berries, and have the chance to write or draw with a feather quill.
For information about available times and to register, contact Marian Calder at 843-915-7861 or email calder.marian@horrycounty.org. Available sessions are 9, 9:30, 10 or 10:30, please specify which session you would like upon registering.
The L.W. Paul Living History Farm is open Tuesday through Saturday, 9 AM-4 PM and is located at 2279 Harris Short Cut Road, Conway, SC 29526.

Patrick McCawley: “To Preserve us from Utter Ruine”: The Revolution of 1719
2022-04-30 13:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The Horry County Museum and the AVX Foundation present a program by Patrick McCawley on The Revolution of 1719 in South Carolina on Saturday, April 30th at 1:00 PM.
This lecture will explore the largely forgotten bloodless Revolution of 1719 in Charles Town and its lasting impact on South Carolina history. In 1719, the elected representatives of the Province of Carolina requested the protection of the British Crown. Over the first fifty years of the colony’s existence, the Lords Proprietors, the owners of the colony, had struggled with the colonists over economic and political control of the settlement. Internal squabbles and external dangers that threatened the colony led the settlers to rebel against the proprietors and ask the King to take over control of Carolina. This step would set the province on a new path towards self-determination and the idea that political power is derived from the people.
Patrick McCawley has been with the South Carolina Department of Archives and History since 1986. Patrick spent the first 21 years with the department as archivist with Reference Services branch, where he handled research queries dealing with the Civil War and other SC military related events. In 2007, he became the Accessions Archivist and supervisor of the Archival Processing Unit. In 2018, he was also given responsibility for the agency’s Records Management Unit and State Record Center which holds long term non-current, non-archival records.
Patrick has authored several publications for the department including a Guide to Civil War Records: A Guide to the Records in the South Carolina Department of Archives and History and The Many Faces of Slavery, a documentary reader on slave life in South Carolina. He has curated several exhibits for the agency including “’To preserve us from utter ruine’: The Revolution of 1719.” Born and raised in Maryland, just outside of Washington, DC, Patrick received his BA degree in American History from the University of Maryland and attended the Applied History program at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. He lives in Chapin, SC.
The program will begin at 1:00 pm in the McCown Auditorium located at 805 Main Street, Conway S.C. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 843-915-5320 or email hcgmuseum@horrycounty.org. To view a full list of programs, visit our website at www.horrycountymuseum.org.

South Carolinians in WWII: A Time to Fight
2022-05-04 13:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The 2022 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with South Carolinians in WWII: A Time to Fight. This documentary series is a collective remembrance of World War II, taken from personal stories of South Carolina veterans. Beginning with Pearl Harbor, the films weave together first person accounts of the first stages of the war and includes segments on Fort Jackson and the Citadel, as well as veterans Moffatt Burriss and Theodore Bell of Columbia. Doolittle Raider Bill Farrow of Darlington, who became South Carolina’s first hero after he was executed by the Japanese, is also featured.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, May 4th, at the Horry County Museum, located at 805 Main Street in Conway.
The Horry County Museum Documentary Film Matinees will continue throughout 2022. For a list of films, visit our website at www.horrycountymuseum.org. For more information, call the Horry County Museum at 843-915-5320 or e-mail hcgmuseum@horrycounty.org.

Jr. Program-Ice Cream in a Bag
2022-05-07 09:00 - 11:00 | L.W. Paul Living History Farm, 2279 Harris Short Cut Rd, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
Free Children’s Program at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm
Join us for free 30 minute Saturday activities at the Farm! Parents can sign children up for a half hour session between 9 AM-11 AM. Group sizes will be limited to help ensure social distancing. On May 7th children are invited to learn how to make ice cream in a bag!
For information about available times and to register, contact Marian Calder at 843-915-7861 or email calder.marian@horrycounty.org. Available sessions are 9, 9:30, 10 or 10:30, please specify which session you would like upon registering.
The L.W. Paul Living History Farm is open Tuesday through Saturday, 9 AM-4 PM and is located at 2279 Harris Short Cut Road, Conway, SC 29526.

Eric Crawford: Gullah Spirituals
2022-05-07 13:00
The Horry County Museum and the AVX Foundation present a lecture by musicologist Eric Crawford on May 7th on his book, Gullah Spirituals: The Sound of Freedom & Protest in the South Carolina Sea Islands.
Join us to learn the history of Gullah Geechee songs from their beginnings in West Africa to their height as songs for social change and Black identity in the twentieth century American South. While much has been done to study, preserve, and interpret Gullah culture in the lowcountry and sea islands of South Carolina and Georgia, some traditions like the shouting and rowing songs have been all but forgotten. This work, which focuses primarily on South Carolina’s St. Helena Island, illuminates the remarkable history, survival, and influence of spirituals since the earliest recordings in the 1860s.
Eric Sean Crawford is the director of the Benedict College Honors Program and holds a Ph.D. in musicology from the Catholic University of America. He is the former director of the Charles W. Joyner Institute for Gullah and African Diaspora Studies at Coastal Carolina University, served as musical consultant for the Amazon series Underground Railroad, and is featured in Henry Louis Gates’s miniseries, The Black Church.
The program will begin at 1:00 pm in the McCown Auditorium located at 805 Main Street, Conway SC. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 843-915-5320 or email hcgmuseum@horrycounty.org. To view a full list of programs, visit our website at www.horrycountymuseum.org.

South Carolinians in WWII: A New Front
2022-05-11 13:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The 2022 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with South Carolinians in WWII: A New Front. The second episode of the series follows veterans living in South Carolina through the mountains of Italy, into the fields of England and onto the beaches of Normandy. Also featured are South Carolina doctors and nurses who served and the rise of the Charleston Navy Yard.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, May 11th, at the Horry County Museum, located at 805 Main Street in Conway.
The Horry County Museum Documentary Film Matinees will continue throughout 2022. For a list of films, visit our website at www.horrycountymuseum.org. For more information, call the Horry County Museum at 843-915-5320 or e-mail hcgmuseum@horrycounty.org.

Jr. Program-Animal Tracks
2022-05-14 09:00 - 11:00 | L.W. Paul Living History Farm, 2279 Harris Short Cut Rd, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
Free Children’s Program at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm
Join us for free 30 minute Saturday activities at the Farm! Parents can sign children up for a half hour session between 9 AM-11 AM. Group sizes will be limited to help ensure social distancing. On May 14th children will learn about local wildlife and make a notebook of local animal tracks to take home.
For information about available times and to register, contact Marian Calder at 843-915-7861 or email calder.marian@horrycounty.org. Available sessions are 9, 9:30, 10 or 10:30, please specify which session you would like upon registering.
The L.W. Paul Living History Farm is open Tuesday through Saturday, 9 AM-4 PM and is located at 2279 Harris Short Cut Road, Conway, SC 29526.

Shape Note: The Roots of American Song
2022-05-14 13:00 | L.W. Paul Living History Farm, 2279 Harris Short Cut Rd, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The public is invited to the L.W. Paul Living History Farm at 1pm on May 14th to experience the sound of American shape-note singing. This traditional form of music has been sung in churches and “singing schools” since the early 1800s and has strong roots in the American South. Join staff member Abigail Phelps in learning the basics of shape-note music and bringing the harmonies to life through song.
The program will be held at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm, located at 2279 Harris Short Cut Road, Conway SC. This event is free, however a reservation is required. To sign up or for more information, call 843-365-3596 or email hcgmuseum@horrycounty.org. To view a full list of programs, visit our website at www.horrycountymuseum.org.

South Carolinians in WWII: A Path to Victory
2022-05-18 13:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The 2022 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with South Carolinians in WWII: A Path to Victory. This episode follows our veterans from the beaches of Normandy through the hedgerows of France, continues through to Operation Market Garden and the beginning of the Battle of the Bulge. Additional sections include stories from veterans who served under General George S. Patton and moments of rest and relaxation during the war.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, May 18th, at the Horry County Museum, located at 805 Main Street in Conway.
The Horry County Museum Documentary Film Matinees will continue throughout 2022. For a list of films, visit our website at www.horrycountymuseum.org. For more information, call the Horry County Museum at 843-915-5320 or e-mail hcgmuseum@horrycounty.org.

Jr. Program-Native American Tools & Pottery
2022-05-21 09:00 - 11:00 | L.W. Paul Living History Farm, 2279 Harris Short Cut Rd, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
Free Children’s Program at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm
Join us for free 30 minute Saturday activities at the Farm! Parents can sign children up for a half hour session between 9 AM-11 AM. Group sizes will be limited to help ensure social distancing. On May 21st children will learn about tools and pottery used by local Native Americans. They will also create their own pot to decorate and take home!
For information about available times and to register, contact Marian Calder at 843-915-7861 or email calder.marian@horrycounty.org. Available sessions are 9, 9:30, 10 or 10:30, please specify which session you would like upon registering.
The L.W. Paul Living History Farm is open Tuesday through Saturday, 9 AM-4 PM and is located at 2279 Harris Short Cut Road, Conway, SC 29526.

Fielding Freed: The Things They Carried
2022-05-21 13:00
“Fielding Freed: The Things They Carried: Grunt Gear of the Vietnam War”

The Horry County Museum and the AVX Foundation present a lecture by Fielding Freed on Saturday, May 21st, on grunt gear of the Vietnam War.
A grunt once said that with all the gear on his back he felt like a turtle and moved about as quickly. This hands-on program will show some of the gear used and carried by soldiers and Marines during the Vietnam War. Understanding some of the physical demands of jungle warfare starts with the equipment carried by our troops. Historian Fielding Freed will show and discuss original examples including rations, field gear, headgear, uniforms, and the all-important back pack radio used during Vietnam. Veterans and their families are encouraged to attend.
Fielding Freed is Director of Historic House Museums for Historic Columbia. A Native of Chattanooga, Fielding has worked in the museum field nearly twenty years. After a five year stint as a photojournalist, he earned an MS in Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a Museum Studies Certificate from the Milwaukee Public Museum. His recent work includes serving as part of the reinterpretation team for the Woodrow Wilson Family Home and Museum of Reconstruction.
The program will begin at 1:00 pm in the McCown Auditorium located at 805 Main Street, Conway SC. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 843-915-5320 or email hcgmuseum@horrycounty.org. To view a full list of programs, visit our website at www.horrycountymuseum.org.

South Carolinians in WWII: Liberation
2022-05-25 13:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The 2022 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with South Carolinians in WWII: Liberation. This episode follows our veterans past the Battle of the Bulge and through the Siegfried Line as they battle their way into Germany to discover the horror of concentration camps. Combining first person accounts of the holocaust survivors and veterans, a distinct picture is drawn of the inhumanity that the Nazi command structure forced upon those they deemed undesirable. The stories are graphic and heartbreaking but tell a vivid story of heroism and the will to survive when surrounded by the horrors of war.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, May 25th, at the Horry County Museum, located at 805 Main Street in Conway.
The Horry County Museum Documentary Film Matinees will continue throughout 2022. For a list of films, visit our website at www.horrycountymuseum.org. For more information, call the Horry County Museum at 843-915-5320 or e-mail hcgmuseum@horrycounty.org.

Closed for Memorial Day
2022-05-28

Recognize Vietnam Veterans
2022-05-31 13:00
CONWAY, S.C. – Area military veterans of the Vietnam War will be recognized at a special event entitled “Valor in Vietnam” at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, May 31st – the day after Memorial Day – at the McCown Auditorium, located at 805 Main Street in Conway. The event is sponsored by the Horry County Museum and the United Bank Center for Military & Veteran Studies at Coastal Carolina University, and is free to the public.
“Valor in Vietnam” will include recognition of American Vietnam veterans in attendance and a large-screen presentation of the new documentary film Soldier Stories: Valor in Vietnam. The film chronicles the common experiences of Americans in uniform during the Vietnam War through historic combat footage, period photography, and personal commentary by local Vietnam veterans and others.
“We invite all local Vietnam veterans and those who are visiting our region to attend the free program as guests of honor,” said Walter Hill, who is the director of the Horry County Museum. “And we also welcome their families and friends — and members of the general public – to participate as a way of showing appreciation for all of our veterans. We hope that this event will be a meaningful contribution to our area’s observance of Memorial Day.”
The May 31st event is associated with the official United States 50th Anniversary Vietnam War Commemoration, which is sponsored by the U.S. Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs through 2025 to honor American veterans of the Vietnam War and their families.
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A wounded American marine receives treatment at the 1968 Battle of Hue. The documentary film Soldier Stories: Valor in Vietnam, which chronicles the common experiences of Americans in uniform during the Vietnam War, will be presented at 2 p.m., May 31 at the Horry County Museum’s McCown Auditorium in Conway as part of “Valor in Vietnam” – a special event recognizing American Vietnam veterans. (National Archives photo)
Link to public domain image:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/OperationHueCity1967wounded.jpg
Photo credit: National Archives via Wikimedia Commons

Charlies Place
2022-06-01 13:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The 2022 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with the SCETV documentary, Charlie’s Place. This 30 minute film tells the story of an African American nightclub owned by Charlie Fitzgerald in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Despite the fact that much of the South was segregated during the time, both blacks and whites were welcomed into the club. This drew unwanted attention from groups like the KKK, who attacked Charlie’s Place one night in 1950.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, June 1st, at the Horry County Museum, located at 805 Main Street in Conway.
The Horry County Museum Documentary Film Matinees will continue throughout 2022. For a list of films, visit our website at www.horrycountymuseum.org. For more information, call the Horry County Museum at 843-915-5320 or e-mail hcgmuseum@horrycounty.org.

Morris Brothers & Dixie Station Bluegrass Concert
2022-06-04 13:00
“The Morris Brothers & Dixie Station to perform traditional bluegrass concert at the Horry County Museum”
The Horry County Museum and the AVX Foundation present a free traditional bluegrass concert by The Morris Brothers on June 4th at 1:00 PM.
The Morris Brothers have been playing music together for 49 years. Originally from West Virginia, they now reside in the Aynor/Cool Springs area of South Carolina. The brothers started playing bluegrass when they were young boys growing up in the hollows of West Virginia. They enjoy playing bluegrass music and bluegrass gospel and play regularly in Horry County. Band members include Mike Morris of Aynor, SC on vocals and banjo, Matt Morris from Cool Springs, SC on vocals and guitar, William Hardee from Loris, SC on vocals and fiddle, Jason Todd from Loris, SC on mandolin, and Tammy Holt of Conway, SC on the bass.
The concert will be held in the Museum’s McCown Auditorium located at 805 Main Street, Conway, SC 29526. For more information, call 843-915-5320 or email hcgmuseum@horrycounty.org. For more information about our programs, visit the museum website at www.horrycountymuseum.org.

D-Day Remembered
2022-06-08 13:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The 2022 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with D-Day Remembered. This locally produced documentary profiles the events of “Operation Overlord,” the Allied invasion of German-occupied France, which began on “D-Day” June 6, 1944. The joint military operation involved more than 150,000 Allied troops, almost 5,000 ships and landing craft, 13,000 aircraft, 3,500 airborne gliders, and more than 2-million tons of equipment.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, June 8th, at the Horry County Museum, located at 805 Main Street in Conway.
The Horry County Museum Documentary Film Matinees will continue throughout 2022. For a list of films, visit our website at www.horrycountymuseum.org. For more information, call the Horry County Museum at 843-915-5320 or e-mail hcgmuseum@horrycounty.org.

Grahame Long-A Really Old Door
2022-06-11 13:00
“A Really Old Door…” Rediscovering the Nathaniel Russell House’s Kitchen House
The Horry County Museum and the AVX Foundation present a lecture by Grahame Long on June 11th, on recent discoveries at the Nathaniel Russell House in Charleston, SC.
Constructed circa 1808, a rear outbuilding of the Nathaniel Russell House originally held a cook room, a laundry, and three living chambers for its enslaved. It was said, however, that mid-20th century renovations had destroyed all remnants of its original fabric. Those beliefs were false.
Discovering new data in 2019, Historic Charleston Foundation began peeling back modern materials within the Nathaniel Russell house’s kitchen and quarters, a process that revealed original construction and new information once thought lost. These discoveries are now providing crucial information and representation to the heretofore unknown individuals that were enslaved there.
As Director of Museums for Historic Charleston Foundation, Grahame Long leads all research, stewardship, interpretive and education initiatives at the Nathaniel Russell House and Aiken-Rhett House museums and serves as curator for the extensive collections therein. He has authored three books, published numerous articles and lectured extensively throughout the southeast on various topics concerning material culture, decorative arts and social histories of South Carolina.
The former chief curator for The Charleston Museum, he is the resident historian for the German Friendly Society, a member of the Mayor’s Walled City Task Force and an honorary member of the Washington Light Infantry. He is a volunteer curator for The Citadel Archives and Museum and works as a historical consultant for the U.S. Air Force Explosive Ordnance Disposal.
The program will begin at 1:00 pm in the McCown Auditorium located at 805 Main Street, Conway SC. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 843-915-5320 or email hcgmuseum@horrycounty.org. To view a full list of programs, visit our website at www.horrycountymuseum.org.

Simeon Brooks Chapin-A Man of Action
2022-06-15 13:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The 2022 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with Simeon Brooks Chapin: A Man of Action. A successful businessman, Chapin was involved in each of the communities in which he lived, including Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. His philanthropy provided for schools, churches, libraries, hospitals, and YMCAs. He showed his care of people by establishing programs and institutions to make their lives better. Even after his death in 1945, his philosophy lives on. Through his four foundations, he continues to build the communities he loved and inspire others.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, June 15th, at the Horry County Museum, located at 805 Main Street in Conway.
The Horry County Museum Documentary Film Matinees will continue throughout 2022. For a list of films, visit our website at www.horrycountymuseum.org. For more information, call the Horry County Museum at 843-915-5320 or e-mail hcgmuseum@horrycounty.org.

Closed for Juneteenth Holiday
2022-06-18 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States

Finding Clovis
2022-06-22 13:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The 2022 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with Finding Clovis. This 30 minute film takes viewers on an archeological adventure at the Topper dig site in Allendale County, South Carolina. Famous for Clovis and pre-Clovis artifacts, there is recent evidence that may support the theory that a comet suddenly wiped out the Clovis culture 13,000 years ago. World renowned scientists offer their opinions about these significant first Americans, where they came from, how they lived, and what may have been their fate.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, June 22nd, at the Horry County Museum, located at 805 Main Street in Conway.
The Horry County Museum Documentary Film Matinees will continue throughout 2022. For a list of films, visit our website at www.horrycountymuseum.org. For more information, call the Horry County Museum at 843-915-5320 or e-mail hcgmuseum@horrycounty.org.
