Events

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, February 26th from 9:00 AM-3:00 PM to see how clothes would have been washed using a scrub board and wash pot. From 10 AM-11 AM staff will demonstrate how wood ashes would be saved and used on the farm.

The 2019 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with the SCETV documentary, Charlie’s Place. This 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 […]

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, February 26th 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 polishing the wood stove and heater in the farm house.

Experience life on the “one horse farm” in Horry County from 1900-1955 at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm. Join us on March 2nd from 9:30 AM until 10:30 AM for Farm Harvest Day as Wayne Skipper demonstrates finding, cutting and making a broom from straw that is found on the farm.

The 2019 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with Pirates of the Carolinas. This hour long film, part of the Carolina Stories Series by SCETV, digs up the true tales of treachery and villainy that occurred off the coasts of North and South Carolina during the Golden Age of Piracy.

Experience life on the “one horse farm” in Horry County from 1900-1955 at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm. Join us on March 7th from 11:00 AM until 1:00 PM for a cooking demonstration on the wood burning stove. Creativity was needed when the family wanted to get away from everyday recipes and add variety to their meals. In this demonstration, Wayne will use foods from the pantry to cook a small meal that would have been different for the average family.

Junior Curators continues at the Horry County Museum on Saturday, March 9th 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 join Museum Curator, Hillary Winburn as she discusses what we collect and why. Participants will also test their knowledge and try to guess what certain artifacts are. Parents must remain with children. To participate, sign up with Marion Haynes at haynesm@horrycounty.org or call 843-915-7861.

The Horry County Museum and the AVX Foundation present a program by local author and historian Christopher Boyle on Saturday, March 9th, on his book The Road to Secession in Antebellum Georgetown and Horry Districts.

The 2019 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with Over Here: The Homefront During World War I. This film, part of the Carolina Stories Series by SCETV, examines why African-Americans supported the war effort and how they were disappointed by the response to their efforts; women’s roles and how the war played a part in the women’s movement; military camps and what they meant for South Carolina cities; and how the influenza epidemic in 1918 impacted the state.

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 and workings of an early 1900s farm family. Join us on March 16th from 9:00 AM-10:00 AM to learn about corn shuck scrubs, a type of mop that would be made using corn husks. Maximum of 15 children, parents must remain with children. To participate, sign up with Marion Haynes at haynesm@horrycounty.org or 843-915-7861.

Enjoy a traditional music demonstration at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm on Saturday, March 16th. In this presentation, Wayne Skipper will discuss and demonstrate song intros, turn arounds and tags; cues in the music that would help a vocalist start, rest and end a song. The program will last from 1:00 PM until 3:30 PM and is free and open to the public.

The monthly Active Adult Series at the Horry County Museum will continue on March 19th at 1:00 PM. Join us as we discuss some interesting moments in Horry County’s history including Confederate deserters raiding local farms, an abandoned community on the Waccamaw River, and a suspected murderer calling down the wrath of God on his accusers. 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 2019 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with the film, Swamp Fox: Francis Marion & the American Revolution. The film follows the life of Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion from his birth in 1732 near Monck’s Corner, SC to his experiences as a sailor, and service in the French and […]

Junior Curators continues at the Horry County Museum on Saturday, March 23rd 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 the importance of piecing objects back together and how that can give us clues to the past. Participants will also test their knowledge and try to guess what certain artifacts are. Parents must remain with children. To participate, sign up with Marion Haynes at haynesm@horrycounty.org or call 843-915-7861.

Experience life on the “one horse farm” in Horry County from 1900-1955 at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm. Join us on March 23rd from 9:00 AM until 11:30 AM to learn about the different animals on the farm and their various roles.

The 2019 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with the film, The People Who Take up Serpents. A classic documentary shot in 1974 when Stan Woodward served as Filmmaker in residence at the South Carolina Arts Commission. He headed a groundbreaking program that funded SC filmmakers making their own personal works. Gretchen Robinson’s film on the story of the members of the Holiness Church of God in Jesus’ Name in Greenville, SC-a snake handling church-tells the story of how they responded after a sister church in Newport, Tennessee was padlocked by order of the State Attorney General after two preachers had died from strychnine while trying to prove the authenticity of their faith.

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 and workings of an early 1900s farm family. Join us on March 30th from 9:00 AM-10:00 AM to help plant sweet corn. Maximum of 15 children, parents must remain with children. To participate, sign up with Marion Haynes at haynesm@horrycounty.org or 843-915-7861.

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 March 30th 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 and discuss its set-up after it was moved to the farm.

The Horry County Museum and the AVX Foundation present a program by Joy Brown on Saturday, March 30th, on the work of the Nature Conservancy’s Living Shoreline work and the North Coast Resilience Project.

The 2019 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.

Experience life on the “one horse farm” in Horry County from 1900-1955 at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm. Join us on April 4th from 11:00 AM until 1:00 PM for a cooking demonstration on the wood burning stove. Wayne will demonstrate a variety of ways that chicken would have been prepared in order to make the most use of the bird to feed what would have been a large family.

A free, hour long, guided tour of the Farm will be available to the public at 3:00 PM following the demonstration.

Enjoy a day of planting and plowing on Saturday, April 6th from 9:00 am until 3:00 pm. The L. W. Paul Living History Farm is gearing up the mule to set tobacco and plant corn for the summer. Join Farm staff as they re-create life on the family farm from 1900-1955. Demonstrations planned for the day include setting tobacco plants, planting a spring garden, wood working, grinding grits and meal, blacksmithing, cooking on a wood stove, butter making, and more. Food, snacks and gifts are available for purchase in the visitor’s center. Find a memory of your own, or make a new one with the family.