Horry County Museum

Jail, No Bail
2019-02-06 13:00 UTC | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, 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 denied service and asked to leave. After refusing to leave, the students were arrested for trespassing and processed. This 30 minute program pays tribute to the 50th anniversary of the ‘Friendship Nine’ sit-in protest that inspired the Jail, No Bail Movement, a strategy which turned the tables on the establishment and reinvigorated the National Civil Rights Movement.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, February 6th, at the Horry County Museum, located at 805 Main Street in Conway.
The Horry County Museum Documentary Film Matinees will continue throughout 2019. For a full 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.

Donald Kirkpatrick to give lecture on Fossils of the Pee Dee Region
2019-02-02 13:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, 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.
Donald Kirkpatrick received a Bachelor of Science in Geology from James Madison University in 1979. During his junior year at JMU he was selected by the Smithsonian Institution to spend his senior year as a Museum Study Appointee to the U.S. National Museum of Natural History. Following his appointment, Kirkpatrick spent two years at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, taking graduate biology courses and researching fossil vertebrates. After serving in the U.S. Navy, Don recently retired from the Marion County School District where he taught for 20+ years. Kirkpatrick is a member of the National Association of Biology Teachers, the National Science Teachers Association, the National Center for Science Education, and the South Carolina Science Council. In addition to these educational associations, he is also a member of the South Carolina Academy of Science, the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, and the Paleontological Research Institution.
The program will be held in the McCown Auditorium located in the Horry County Museum at 805 Main Street, Conway SC. This event is free and open to the public.

Farm Harvest Day at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm
2019-02-02 09:30 - 10:30 | L.W. Paul Living History Farm, 2279 Harris Short Cut Rd, Conway, SC, 29526, 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.
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. 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 843-365-3596 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.

Junior Farmers at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm
2019-02-02 09:00 - 10:00 | L.W. Paul Living History Farm, 2279 Harris Short Cut Rd, Conway, SC, 29526, 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.

Hallowed Ground Part 1
2019-01-30 13:00 - 14:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, 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.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, January 30th, at the Horry County Museum, located at 805 Main Street in Conway.
The Horry County Museum Documentary Film Matinees will continue throughout 2018. For a full 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.

Hallowed Ground: Primitive Camp Meetings of the South Carolina Lowcountry, Part I: Cattle Creek and Cypress Camp Meetings.
2019-01-30 13:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, 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.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, January 30th, at the Horry County Museum, located at 805 Main Street in Conway.
The Horry County Museum Documentary Film Matinees will continue throughout 2019. For a full 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.

Wash Day at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm
2019-01-29 11:00 - 13:00 | SC
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.
A free, hour long, guided tour of the farm will be available to the public starting at 3:00 PM.
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 843-365-3596 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.

Smokehouse Day at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm
2019-01-26 09:00 - 15:00 | L.W. Paul Living History Farm, 2279 Harris Short Cut Rd, Conway, SC, 29526, 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.
This free event will be held January 26th from 9:00 am until 3:00 pm. The L. W. Paul Living History Farm is located at 2279 Harris Short Cut Road in Conway, South Carolina.
For more information, call 843-365-3596 or email hcgmuseum@horrycounty.org.
To view a full list of events and programs, visit our website at www.horrycountymuseum.org.

Rebels & Redcoats: The World Turned Upside Down.
2019-01-23 13:00 - 14:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The 2019 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with the PBS Film Series Rebels & Redcoats: The World Turned Upside Down. The British have enjoyed command of the sea, and with it the ability to move thousands of troops to wherever they are needed. But now an extraordinary naval blunder allows the French fleet to isolate a large British garrison at Yorktown. Surrender is inevitable, giving overall victory to Washington and his French allies. Those who have supported the British, the loyalists, thousands of African Americans and American Indians are left to the mercy of the new state.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, January 23rd, at the Horry County Museum, located at 805 Main Street in Conway.
The Horry County Museum Documentary Film Matinees will continue throughout 2019. For a full 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.

Rebels & Redcoats: The War Moves South.
2019-01-16 13:00 - 15:00 | SC
The 2019 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with the PBS Film Series Rebels & Redcoats: The War Moves South. The British open a new front in the southern colonies. They win a series of victories against American and French forces, and find a new army of recruits amongst former slaves. Thousands of African Americans join the British in the expectation of freedom. The war in the south is an untold story, the stuff of nightmares. It becomes a savage war of partisans, border raids and guerilla style skirmishing.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, January 16th, at the Horry County Museum, located at 805 Main Street in Conway.
The Horry County Museum Documentary Film Matinees will continue throughout 2019. For a full 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.

Active Adult Series: Transportation in Horry County
2019-01-15 13:00 - 15:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The monthly Active Adult Series at the Horry County Museum will continue on January 15th at 1:00 PM with a program on the history of transportation in Horry County. From dugout canoes, to steamboats, trains, cars, and planes, learn the history and impact that these different methods of transportation had on the residents of, and visitors to, Horry County. The Active Adult Series is held the third Tuesday of each month and is perfect for new residents to the area, or lifetime locals who want to learn more about the place that they call home.
The program will be held at the Horry County Museum, located at 805 Main Street, Conway SC. This series is free and open to the public, seating will be available. For more information, call 843-915-5320 or email hcgmuseum@horrycounty.org. To view a full list of programs and events at the Museum, visit www.horrycountymuseum.org.

Discussion on the Homo naledi Fossils at the Horry County Museum
2019-01-12 13:00 - 15:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The Horry County Museum will host a discussion by Coastal Carolina Univiersity Anthropology faculty on the Homo naledi (meaning “Star”) fossils discovered in South Africa on Saturday, January 12th. Participants will watch several video clips about the deep cave excavation and examine 3D printed casts of the fossils to understand what this discovery means for human evolution.
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.

Jr. Curators at the Horry County Museum
2019-01-12 09:00 - 10:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
Junior Curators continues at the Horry County Museum on Saturday, January 12th from 9 AM-10 AM. This free, family friendly, program is open to children ages 5 and older and will teach children the history and natural history of Horry County through hands on activities. In this session, children will learn about the Native Americans who lived here, the types of tools they used, and will make a small coil pot to take home. Adults must remain with children. To participate, pre-register with Marion Haynes at haynesm@horrycounty.org or call 843-915-7861.

Rebels & Redcoats: American Crisis 1776
2019-01-09 13:00 - 15:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The 2019 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with the PBS Film Series Rebels & Redcoats: American Crisis 1776. Washington is forced out of New York. His army begins to desert him, until a daring raid across a frozen river gives him victory at Trenton. But the British still seem to be masters in this war, capturing the great Fort Ticonderoga.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, January 9th, at the Horry County Museum, located at 805 Main Street in Conway.
The Horry County Museum Documentary Film Matinees will continue throughout 2019. For a full 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.

Farm Harvest Day at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm
2019-01-05 09:30 - 10:30 | L.W. Paul Living History Farm, 2279 Harris Short Cut Rd, Conway, SC, 29526, 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 January 5th from 9:30 AM until 10:30 AM to learn about seasonal produce on the farm. During the winter months, collard greens were usually available and had their best flavor after a hard freeze. Visitors can join farm staff in the collard patch to learn about this vegetable, how to harvest it, and how to prepare it for cooking.
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. 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 843-365-3596 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.

Junior Farmers at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm
2019-01-05 09:00 - 22:00 | L.W. Paul Living History Farm, 2279 Harris Short Cut Rd, Conway, SC, 29526, 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 January 5th from 9:00 AM-10:00 AM to learn how corn becomes grits. Children will shell corn, see how it is ground in the grist mill, and sift grits and corn meal. Maximum of 15 children, parents must remain with children. To participate, pre-register with Marion Haynes at haynesm@horrycounty.org or 843-915-7861.

Cooking demonstration at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm: Collard Greens & Hoppin’ Johns
2019-01-03 11:00 - 13:00 | L.W. Paul Living History Farm, 2279 Harris Short Cut Rd, Conway, SC, 29526, 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 January 3rd from 11:00 AM until 1:00 PM to learn about the New Year’s Day meal of collard greens and hoppin’ johns, also known as ‘Dollars and Pennies’. A traditional New Year’s meal on many farms would have been collard greens, dried peas, hog jowls, and peas cooked in rice. Many people still carry on this tradition to represent green (paper) money and brown money (pennies) that they hope to have more of during the upcoming year. Join us to see how this meal would have been prepared on the wood burning stove.
A free, hour long, guided tour of the Farm will be available to the public at 3:00 PM following the demonstration.
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. 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 843-365-3596 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.

Rebels & Redcoats: The Shot Heard Round the World
2019-01-02 13:00 - 14:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The 2019 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series begins with the PBS Film Series Rebels & Redcoats: The Shot Heard Round the World.
“With vivid dramatizations of battles, eyewitness accounts, original documents and paintings, Rebels & Redcoats tells the untold story of the American Revolution. Richard Holmes, a renowned British military historian, presents the series. He focuses on the military struggles, soldiers, leaders, and tactics of this great conflict. It is told from an unusual point of view, that of the British losers. Yet it also explores painful conflicts within the American people themselves.”
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, January 2nd, at the Horry County Museum, located at 805 Main Street in Conway.
The Horry County Museum Documentary Film Matinees will continue throughout 2019. For a full 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.

Sawmill Saturday at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm
2018-12-29 09:30 - 11:30 | L.W. Paul Living History Farm, 2279 Harris Short Cut Rd, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
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 Sawmill Saturday from 9:30 AM-11:30 AM on December 29th to see the sawmill in operation. There were, and still are, a lot of trees being grown in Horry County for timber production. In the early twentieth century, most communities had a sawmill in the area to get the trees from their forest turned into boards. Farm staff and designated volunteers will operate the sawmill at the farm and Wayne will discuss the type of engines that would have powered these mills.
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 Shortcut Road in Conway, SC. For more information, contact the L. W. Paul Living History Farm at 843-365-3596 or email the Horry County Museum at hcgmuseum@horrycounty.org. For a full list of programs and events at the Horry County Museum and L.W. Paul Living History Farm, visit our website at www.horrycountymuseum.org.

Jr. Curators
2018-12-29 09:00 - 10:00 | SC
Junior Curators continues at the Horry County Museum on Saturday, December 29th from 9 AM-10 AM. This free, family friendly, program is open to children ages 5 and older and will teach children the history and natural history of Horry County through hands on activities. In this session, children will learn about the types of fossils that could be found in Horry County and participate in a “dig” to see what fossils they can find! Adults must remain with children. To participate, pre-register with Marion Haynes at haynesm@horrycounty.org or call 843-915-7861.

Museum and Farm are closed
2018-12-22 - 2018-12-26 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States

The Chicken Bog King of the Pee Dee
2018-12-19 13:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The 2018 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with Chicken Bog: The Chicken Bog King of the Pee Dee.
In Latta, South Carolina in the historic Pee Dee region, a southern stew tradition that served the appetites of rural families located in the swamp communities of Lowcountry South Carolina, is maintained by the Mayor of Latta who has long held the mantle of “Chicken Bog King of the Pee Dee”. Filmmaker Stan Woodward follows him as he and his crew prepare a chicken bog (chicken, rice and secret ingredients only known to the stewmaster) for serving at a stump meeting rally for a local US Congressman running for re-election. Such stews are used in conjunction with political rallies in this part of the state, with the chicken bog tradition tracing back to the late 1800s and the democratic stump meeting held annually at Gallivants Ferry, SC.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, December 19th, at the Horry County Museum, located at 805 Main Street in Conway.
The Horry County Museum Documentary Film Matinees will continue throughout 2018. For a full 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.

Active Adult Series: The Mysterious Carolina Bays
2018-12-18 13:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The monthly Active Adult Series at the Horry County Museum will continue on December 18th at 1:00 PM with a program on the Carolina Bays. Join us to learn about these mysterious natural features and learn about the types of wildlife that call them home. The Active Adult Series is held the third Tuesday of each month and is perfect for new residents to the area, or lifetime locals who want to learn more about the place that they call home.
The program will be held at the Horry County Museum, located at 805 Main Street, Conway SC. This series is free and open to the public, seating will be available. For more information, call 843-915-5320 or email hcgmuseum@horrycounty.org. To view a full list of programs and events at the Museum, visit www.horrycountymuseum.org.

Traditional Music at the Farm
2018-12-15 13:00 - 15:30 | L.W. Paul Living History Farm, 2279 Harris Short Cut Rd, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
Enjoy a traditional Christmas music demonstration at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm on Saturday, December 15th. Join us to hear your favorite traditional Christmas music performed live in the church building by Farm Site Manager Wayne Skipper and other local musicians. The program will last from 1:00 PM until 3:30 PM and is free and open to the public.
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 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 843-365-3596 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.

Don Sweeper: Scrooge According to Gullah
2018-12-15 13:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The Horry County Museum will host “Scrooge According to Gullah” by Donald Sweeper. In this performance, Mr. Sweeper brings to life the old greedy money miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, from Charles Dickens’ novel, A Christmas Carol. This reenactment has been adopted for the stage in a Chautauqua performance style in which the audience will interpret Scrooge as someone they personally know, (maybe in their own family) or have known in the past.
“Scrooge according to Gullah”, is portrayed by Donald Sweeper in the rich Gullah tradition. His voice diction and array of Gullah words reveals a tradition that is vanishing as time goes by. Mr. Sweeper was born in Beaufort, South Carolina, and grew up in Eutawville. He graduated from Roberts High school in Holly Hill and Voorhees College in Denmark, SC. He has taught at the elementary, middle, and high school levels in both public and private schools in South Carolina. He has traveled across the width and breathe of the United States reenacting famous African Americans such as Civil War hero and Congressman Robert Smalls. Mr. Sweeper is an authoritarian on the Gullah Culture and its history and teaches Gullah translations and does storytelling for all age groups. He often reads scripture and do interpretations from the New Testament Gullah Bible. Donald Sweeper is married to his wife Deloris and they have two adult sons and three grandsons. He currently resides in Columbia, South Carolina.

Junior Farmers
2018-12-15 09:00 - 10:00 | L.W. Paul Living History Farm, 2279 Harris Short Cut Rd, Conway, SC, 29526, 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 December 15th from 9:00 AM-10:00 AM to learn about Christmas traditions on the family farm. Maximum of 15 children, parents must remain with children. To participate, pre-register with Marion Haynes at haynesm@horrycounty.org or 843-915-7861.

Carolina Hash: A South Carolina Folk Heritage Tradition
2018-12-12 13:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The 2018 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with Carolina Hash: A South Carolina Folk Heritage Tradition.
Hash is only cooked primarily in South Carolina. If you travel across the border into NC or Georgia, you find that few have ever heard of hash. Filmmaker Stan Woodward discovered this anomaly while researching the difference between Brunswick stews cooked regionally. He gathered footage while shooting the Brunswick stew documentaries that led to this unusual film. Updated with new content that answered questions about the unusual place that mustard had in the barbecue sauce and hash ingredients found in the midlands of South Carolina, the story of has was enhanced to include the records of French Huguenot writers who wrote of “hashiers”, which was cooked in Carolina Rice Kitchens by African American artisan cooks who were given poor parts of the hog and told to make an edible concoction that provided a high-protein content for slaves working in the scorching heat. We learn that Hash-cooking migrated inland from plantations to small farms and became commonplace-along with puddin’ and liver mush-as a byproduct foodway cooked as part of the hog-killing that took place in the winter months. Hash today is a common side-dish eaten over rice along with barbecue in South Carolina.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, December 12th, at the Horry County Museum, located at 805 Main Street in Conway.
The Horry County Museum Documentary Film Matinees will continue throughout 2018. For a full 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.

Holiday Sing Along at the Horry County Museum
2018-12-11 15:30 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
The Horry County Museum and K12-South Carolina Virtual Charter School present a free Christmas concert on Tuesday, December 11th. The holiday season is upon us and there’s no better way to share Christmas joy, than with music. Celebrate the season by singing along with local musician Shelley Sasser and enjoy many holiday classics such as Frosty the Snowman, Santa Baby, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Silent Night, We Wish You a Merry Christmas, and many more.
The concert will begin at 3:30 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.

Jr. Curators
2018-12-08 09:00 - 10:00 | Horry County Museum, 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, 29526, United States
Junior Curators continues at the Horry County Museum on Saturday, December 8th from 9 AM-10 AM. This free, family friendly, program is open to children ages 5 and older and will teach children the history and natural history of Horry County through hands on activities. In this session, children will learn about the tradition of making orange pomanders at Christmas. Participants will also make an orange pomander to take home! Adults must remain with children. To participate, pre-register with Marion Haynes at haynesm@horrycounty.org or call 843-915-7861

Traditional Cooking Demonstration
2018-12-06 11:00 - 13:00 | L.W. Paul Living History Farm, 2279 Harris Short Cut Rd, Conway, SC, 29526, 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 December 6th from 11:00 AM until 1:00 PM for a cooking demonstration on the wood burning stove. Late fall and early winter brought cool weather that allowed for the butchering of a hog in time for the holidays. The fresh pork was a welcome change from the cured pork of the smokehouse. Rendering lard from the fat for holiday dishes was also a part of this first butchering. Join us as staff demonstrates the process of rendering lard from pork fat in this month’s cooking demonstration.
A free, hour long, guided tour of the Farm will be available to the public at 3:00 PM following the demonstration.
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. 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 843-365-3596 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.
