Events

The Horry County Museum presents a lecture by Kevin Kokomoor, Ph.D. on his book, La Florida on Saturday, January 27th at 1 PM. La Florida explores a Spanish thread to early American history that is unfamiliar or even unknown to most Americans. By focusing on America’s Spanish heritage, this collection of stories challenges how Americans view their past and uncovers the Spanish, not English, influence that drove America’s early history. The book digs into Hispanic and Caribbean history, and how important events in the Spanish colonial world influenced the discovery and colonization of the American Southeast. Learn how Spanish colonialism in Florida sparked British plans for colonization of the continent and influenced some of the most enduring traditions of the larger Southeast.
Kevin Kokomoor is a fourth generation Floridian who grew up in the Tampa Bay area. He earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in History at the University of South Florida and his Doctorate in Early American History at Florida State University. His first academic position after graduate school was at Coastal Carolina University where he is currently employed. Kokomoor recently published Of One Mind and One Government: The Rise and Fall of the Creek Nation in the Early Republic with the University of Nebraska Press. He has also authored several articles in academic journals, including Journal of Southern History, Georgia Historical Quarterly, Florida Historical Quarterly, Journal of Sport History, and Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. He won the Thompson Award for the best article published in Florida Historical Quarterly in 2009 and the E. Merton Coulter Award for the best article published in Georgia Historical Quarterly in 2013. In 2017 he was the Howard H. Peckham Fellow of Revolutionary America at the Clements Library at the University of Michigan.
The lecture 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 2024, visit the museum website at www.horrycountymuseum.org.

The 2024 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with a documentary by South Carolina ETV on inductees from the Colonial Era into the South Carolina Hall of Fame. Established in 1973, The South Carolina Hall of Fame, located in Myrtle Beach, inducts one deceased and one contemporary honoree each year. It is by law the “official” Hall of Fame for South Carolina. There are nearly 100 members of the South Carolina Hall of Fame, each of whom has made outstanding contributions to South Carolina’s heritage, history, and progress.
Biographies of Colonial Era inductees include King Hagler, Eliza Pinckney, Henry Laurens, Thomas Lynch, Sr., William Henry Drayton, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton, and Edward Rutledge.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, January 31st, 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, February 3rd 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 marbled paper and how it was used in the past. They’ll also use chalk to create their own marbled paper 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.

“Rev. Dr. Paul Wood, Jr.: Dicey Langston-Portrait of a Revolutionary War Heroine”
The Horry County Museum and the Theodosia Burr Chapter of the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution present a series on Unique Voices from the Revolutionary War in South Carolina. Join us for a lecture by Reverend Dr. Paul Wood, Jr. on Saturday, February 3rd at 1 PM. Dr. Wood will speak on Laodicea "Dicey" Langston and her many acts of bravery as a Patriot in Laurens County, South Carolina during the Revolutionary War. As a teenager, Dicey was a spy and defender of her home and family as she risked her life for the Patriot cause.
The Rev. Dr. Paul A. Wood, Jr. holds a B. A. from Furman University, a Master of Divinity from Yale Divinity School, and a Doctor of Ministry from Candler School of Theology, Emory University. He is a retired United Methodist minister who served churches throughout South Carolina from 1980 until 2017. Upon his retirement, Dr. Wood became a historian of the American Revolution in South Carolina. He specializes in Dicey Langston Springfield, South Carolina’s renowned heroine of the American Revolution. Dr. Wood is writing a biography of William “Bloody Bill” Cunningham, who became the state’s most prolific murderer during the Revolution.
This lecture is made possible by a grant from The South Carolina American Revolution Sestercentennial Commission. For more information about Revolutionary War events and programs throughout South Carolina during the 250th celebration, visit https://southcarolina250.com/.

The 2024 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with Between the Waters. This 30 minute film, part of the Carolina Stories Series by SCETV, shares the history of Hobcaw Barony, named after a Native American word meaning ‘between the waters’. Join us to learn the Native American and African American history of Hobcaw as well as the history of environmental conservation that continues at the site.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, February 7th, 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 from 10 AM until noon on Saturday, February 10th as Logan Woodle demonstrates repousse techniques in the Blacksmith Shop. Woodle is an assistant professor and Chair of the department of visual arts at Coastal Carolina University. He is a silversmith and educator who lives on his family farm in Conway, S.C. Woodle earned a B.F.A. in sculpture from Winthrop University in 2009 and an M.F.A. in Jewelry and Metalsmithing from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania in 2012. Today you can find Logan teaching all things three-dimensional at Coastal Carolina University. His own work deals with the mythologies that grow like weeds in the agrarian South and has been featured in galleries and museums across the country and in the award-winning book Humor in Craft by Brigitte Martin.
The L.W. Paul Living History Farm re-creates life on the one horse family farm in Horry County from 1900-1955 through traditional farming activities. The farm is located at 2279 Harris Short Cut Road, Conway, SC 29526, is open Tuesday through Saturday 9:00 AM-4:00 PM, and is free to the public.
For more information, call 843-915-5321 or e-mail hcg.museum@horrycountysc.gov.
To view a full list of programs, visit our website at www.horrycountymuseum.org.

The Horry County Museum presents a program on the Whittemore Racepath Community in Conway, South Carolina on Saturday, February 10th at 1 PM. Speakers from the World Community Magazine, the Whittemore Alumni Association, and the Whittemore Racepath Historical Society will present on the people and places important to the Whittemore Racepath community as well as the history of the Whittemore School.
The lecture 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 2024, visit the museum website at www.horrycountymuseum.org.

The 2024 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with Men of Honor: Freddie Stowers & Alvin York. This film follows the stories of two Medal of Honor recipients from World War I, Freddie Stowers, and Alvin York. Stowers, a native of South Carolina, was a corporal and squad leader who was killed in action while leading an assault that helped to break the German line in northern France. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor in 1991, and became the first African-American soldier to receive the award in World War I. Also a corporal in the US Army, Alvin York went from being a conscientious objector to war hero when he captured more than one hundred German prisoners of war in combat.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, February 14th, 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.