Events

Closed August 31st for Labor Day

The 2024 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues 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, September 4th, at the Horry County Museum, located at 805 Main Street in Conway.
The Horry County Museum Documentary Film Matinees will continue throughout 2024. 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 hcg.museum@horrycountysc.gov.

Join us Saturday, September 7th, for a free 30 minute activity at the Farm! Parents can sign children up for a half hour session between 9 AM-11 AM. Group sizes will be limited. In this session, children will learn how tin was used for decoration from the Colonial period through the Depression Era. They’ll also make a punched tin craft to take home.
For information about available times and to register, contact Marian Calder at 843-915-7861 or email calder.marian@horrycountysc.gov . 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.

The Horry County Museum presents a first person presentation by Paul Lopes as British Corporal Clarke, a Coy Tailor, on September 7th at 1 PM. As Corporal Clark of Lt. Col. Webster’s Company, of Lord Cornwallis’s 33rd Regiment of Foot, Lopes brings a sometimes tongue and cheek perception of the daily ins and outs of the lives of King George’s Men at Arms during the 1700s; with particular focus on the rebellion in the colonies.
A living historian for over 25 years in both the 17th & 18th centuries in respect to the military material culture of the periods, Lopes brings his observations as Corporal Clarke of the King’s Finest Regiment to light, known as “The Pattern”, to a public that might only know one side of the conflict. Over the years, Lopes has worked with both military and civilian museums on reproduction projects and research and has been able to go ‘behind the scenes’ to study the inner workings of the vast collections that these sites have at their disposal that few in the general public might never see.
The program will be held in the Museum’s McCown Auditorium located at 805 Main Street, Conway, SC 29526. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 843-915-5320 or email hcg.museum@horrycountysc.gov. For more information about programs for 2023, visit the museum website at www.horrycountymuseum.org.

The 2024 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with the SCETV documentary, Pages of History.
The Charleston Post & Courier was founded in 1803. Throughout its long history, this family-owned newspaper has served the low country, publishing news of war, fire, earthquake, and hurricane, as well as taking important stands on critical issues.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, September 11th, at the Horry County Museum, located at 805 Main Street in Conway.
The Horry County Museum Documentary Film Matinees will continue throughout 2024. 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 hcg.museum@horrycountysc.gov.

Join us Saturday, September 14th, for a free 30 minute activity at the Farm! Parents can sign children up for a half hour session between 9 AM-11 AM. Group sizes will be limited. Children will learn about the American Red Wolf, an animal native to South Carolina that is only found mostly in captivity today. We’ll also make a notebook comparing the red wolf to local foxes and coyotes.
For information about available times and to register, contact Marian Calder at 843-915-7861 or email calder.marian@horrycountysc.gov . 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.

The Horry County Museum presents a program by Elizabeth Chew, CEO of the South Carolina Historical Society, on Saturday, September 14th, at 1:00 PM. In this slide lecture, Chew will show how central the history of South Carolina has been to the story of the United States. From the Spanish colony of Santa Elena on present-day Parris Island in the late 16th century to foundational events of the Civil Rights Movement in the 20th, South Carolina has played a major role in the trajectory of the nation.
Elizabeth Chew became CEO of the South Carolina Historical Society in January 2024. A historian, curator, and educator, she has worked at museums and historic sites since 1985.
Prior to arriving in Charleston, she served as Executive Vice President and Chief Curator at James Madison’s Montpelier in Virginia. During her 8 1/2 years at Montpelier, Dr. Chew led teams of curators, historians, educators, interpreters, public program creators, archaeologists, and historic preservation experts in researching and interpreting James Madison and his family, his essential roles in framing the U.S. Constitution and leading the nation, and the community of enslaved people on the plantation.
Prior to joining Montpelier, Dr. Chew led the curatorial and education division at Reynolda House Museum of American Art in Winston-Salem, NC. Earlier in her career, she served as Curator at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello in Charlottesville, VA. During her thirteen-year tenure there, she was responsible for ongoing research and interpretation initiatives that wove together the Monticello house, its collections, the Jefferson family, and the enslaved community. Dr. Chew also worked in curatorial positions in art museums in Washington, D.C., at The Phillips Collection, the National Gallery of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Raised in Augusta, Georgia, Elizabeth received a BA in art history from Yale University, an MA from the University of London, and PhD from UNC- Chapel Hill.
The program is free to the public and 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 hcg.museum@horrycountysc.gov. To view a full list of scheduled programs, visit the museum website at www.horrycountymuseum.org.

The 2024 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with the documentary, Nothing to Prove: Mac Arnold Returns to the Blues. Southpaw bassist and South Carolina native Mac Arnold was only ten years old when he and his brother built a guitar out of a gas can, a couple strips of wood, a handful of nails, and some screen wire. Arnold played in J. Floyd & the Shamrocks (who frequently featured a young James Brown on piano) while still in high school, and officially began his professional career when he joined Charles Miller’s band in the early '60s. He moved to Chicago around 1965 and began working with saxophonist A.C. Reed before hooking up with Muddy Waters and his band in 1966. The Waters stint led to a fair amount of studio work, and Arnold played bass on several 1960s blues albums, including Otis Spann’s The Blues Is Where It’s At and John Lee Hooker’s Live at Cafe Au Go Go. By the 1980s Arnold had tired of the road and moved back to South Carolina, settling in his hometown of Pelzer, where for all practical purposes he retired from the music business. A group of local musicians kept after him to start performing again, though, which led to Arnold eventually fronting his own band, Mac Arnold & Plate Full o’ Blues.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, September 18th, at the Horry County Museum, located at 805 Main Street in Conway.
The Horry County Museum Documentary Film Matinees will continue throughout 2024. 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 hcg.museum@horrycountysc.gov.