“Fielding Freed: The Things They Carried: Grunt Gear of the Vietnam War” The Horry County Museum and the AVX Foundation present a lecture by Fielding Freed on Saturday, May 21st, on grunt gear of the Vietnam War. A grunt once said that with all the gear on his back he felt […]
The 2022 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with South Carolinians in WWII: Liberation. This episode follows our veterans past the Battle of the Bulge and through the Siegfried Line as they battle their way into Germany to discover the horror of concentration camps. Combining first person accounts of the holocaust […]
Closed for Memorial Day
CONWAY, S.C. – Area military veterans of the Vietnam War will be recognized at a special event entitled “Valor in Vietnam” at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, May 31st – the day after Memorial Day – at the McCown Auditorium, located at 805 Main Street in Conway. The event is sponsored by the […]
The 2022 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with the SCETV documentary, Charlie’s Place. This 30 minute 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 […]
“The Morris Brothers & Dixie Station to perform traditional bluegrass concert at the Horry County Museum” The Horry County Museum and the AVX Foundation present a free traditional bluegrass concert by The Morris Brothers on June 4th at 1:00 PM. The Morris Brothers have been playing music together for 49 years. Originally […]
The 2022 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with D-Day Remembered. This locally produced documentary profiles the events of "Operation Overlord," the Allied invasion of German-occupied France, which began on "D-Day" June 6, 1944. The joint military operation involved more than 150,000 Allied troops, almost 5,000 ships and landing craft, 13,000 […]
“A Really Old Door…” Rediscovering the Nathaniel Russell House’s Kitchen House The Horry County Museum and the AVX Foundation present a lecture by Grahame Long on June 11th, on recent discoveries at the Nathaniel Russell House in Charleston, SC. Constructed circa 1808, a rear outbuilding of the Nathaniel Russell House originally held […]
