Events

The Horry County Museum and the AVX Foundation present a free traditional bluegrass concert by The Morris Brothers on Saturday, July 27th, at 1:00 PM. The Morris Brothers have been playing music together for 44 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, and Tammy Holt of Conway, SC on the bass.

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, July 30th 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-12 PM staff will discuss ways that food would have been kept as cool as possible before electricity was common in rural farm houses.

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

Experience life on the “one horse farm” in Horry County from 1900-1955 at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm. Join us on August 1st from 11:00 AM until 1:00 PM for a cooking demonstration on the wood burning stove. In this month’s demonstration, Wayne Skipper will demonstrate pressure canning vegetables from the farm garden.
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.

Experience life on the ‘one horse family farm’ from 1900-1955 at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm. For much of the 20th century, tobacco was the main cash crop for Horry County and the Pee Dee Region. During the late summer, leaves would be gathered and taken to the barn to be strung and cured, this process required participation from all family members, down to young children, whose job would be to hand the tobacco leaves to a stringer. Join us to relive this experience on Tobacco Heritage Day, Saturday, August 3rd. Demonstrations will take place from 9:00 AM until 3:00 PM and will include gathering, hand tying and stringing tobacco, and a variety of other activities including grinding grits and meal, cooking on a wood stove, and blacksmithing.

Experience life on the “one horse farm” in Horry County from 1900-1955 at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm. Join us on August 7th from 9:30 AM until 10:30 AM for a program on gardening where visitors can learn about growing a garden using heirloom varieties of vegetables and only organic fertilizers.

The 2019 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 2019 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, August 14th, 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.