Events

Join us on January 25th from 9 AM-Noon at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm to celebrate the pig! The public is invited to experience how families would have prepared pork to be preserved on a typical Horry County Farm in the early 1900s. Winter was a season when the farm family was often dependent on home preserved foods, and the perfect time of year for curing pork. Once the meat was cured, families could not only eat the pork during the winter season, but also throughout the year. No part of the animal was wasted on the farm, from using the fat to render into lard, to creating dishes like chitterlings, hog head cheese, or even pickled pig’s feet! Demonstrations include the carving and preparation of pork, salting and curing meat in the smokehouse, rendering lard, cooking demos, and more!
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 from 1900-1955. The Farm is free and open to the public and is located at the corner of Hwy 701 North and Harris Shortcut Road in Conway, SC. For more information, please contact the L. W. Paul Living History Farm at 843-915-5321 or email the Horry County Museum at hcg.museum@horrycountysc.gov.
For a full list of programs and events at the Horry County Museum and L.W. Paul Living History Farm, visit our website at www.horrycountymuseum.org.

The 2025 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with the 30 minute film, Simeon Brooks Chapin: A Man of Action. A successful businessman, Chapin was involved in each of the communities in which he lived, including Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. His philanthropy provided for schools, churches, libraries, hospitals, and YMCAs. He showed his care of people by establishing programs and institutions to make their lives better. Even after his death in 1945, his philosophy lives on. Through his four foundations, he continues to build the communities he loved and inspire others.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, January 29th, at the Horry County Museum, located at 805 Main Street in Conway.
The Horry County Museum Documentary Film Matinees will continue throughout 2025. 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 for free 30 minute Saturday activities at the Farm! Parents can sign children up for a half hour session between 9 AM-11 AM. Group sizes will be limited. On February 1st we’ll discuss the importance of canning and pickling on family farms. Children will also make their own ‘refrigerator pickles’ 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 2025 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with A True Likeness. Part of the Carolina Stories Series by SCETV, this 30 minute film tells the story of Richard Samuel Roberts, a little-known African American photographer from South Carolina whose posthumous discovery transcended stereotypes and brought to light a significant legacy. Heralded as one of the south’s most accomplished photographers of the 1920's and 1930's, Roberts was a self-taught artist who was determined to become a master portrait maker, with every image a true likeness of the subject. But for more than 40 years after his death his work remained lost to all but his family and friends.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, February 5th, at the Horry County Museum, located at 805 Main Street in Conway.
The Horry County Museum Documentary Film Matinees will continue throughout 2025. 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 for free 30 minute Saturday activities at the Farm! Parents can sign children up for a half hour session between 9 AM-11 AM. Group sizes will be limited. On February 8th children will learn how to make homemade ink using berries, and have the chance to write or draw with a feather quill.
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 Professor John Navin and Coastal Carolina University students on Saturday, February 8th, at 1:00 PM. The students, part of the Prince Fellows program at CCU, will discuss key findings from their research involving nineteen issues of The Horry Dispatch –the only newspaper published in Horry County during the first year of the Civil War.
Taylor Pierce is a lifelong resident of the Myrtle Beach area. She is currently a senior at Coastal Carolina University, pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in history with minors in war & society and social studies. She is deeply interested in civil liberties, societal expectations, and the various pressures and injustices faced by specific groups during the 18th century, particularly women and religious sects. Taylor aspires to further her education and develop a career in archival studies, helping to preserve and interpret historical narratives.
Jordan Blazer is a graduate student at Coastal Carolina University, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts in History in 2024 with minors in Political Science and Religious Studies. Originally from Detroit, Michigan, she has called South Carolina home since 2007. Jordan belongs to the Phi Alpha Theta history honor society and as an undergraduate was a frequent President’s List awardee. She is currently pursuing her master’s degree at CCU, building on her exploration of how historical events shape contemporary political and religious dynamics.
Kailani-Lee D’Antuono is originally from North Wildwood, New Jersey. She received her Associate's degree from Horry Georgetown Technical College and is now pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in History with minors in Women and Gender Studies and Social Studies. Kailani’s goal is to earn a Master’s degree and teach High School Social Studies. She is an entrepreneur, operating a design and jewelry business in Conway, and enjoys spending time with her friends, family, and pets.
Connor Mojo is in his Junior year at Coastal Carolina University where he majors in both political science and history; he is also pursuing a minor in Philosophy. Having been raised in Conway, Connor is especially interested in local history and in history of the colony of South Carolina. In 2023-2024 he received the Coley B. Prather Scholarship in Lowcountry History. Mojo plans to continue his studies in graduate school and eventually become a professor.
Prof. John Navin is advisor to the current Prince Fellows project. He joined CCU’s Department of History in 1999. Navin earned his Master’s Degree at Boston College and his Ph.D. at Brandeis University. He specializes in American History to 1865 and also teaches the history of American involvement in the Vietnam War.
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 2025 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with Steel Roads, Iron Men. This film, part of the Carolina Stories Series by SCETV, takes viewers on a nostalgic journey through railroading in South Carolina. From the early days when the giant locomotives were steam driven, to the modern world of diesel powered trains, hear railroading stories from the men who drove the spikes, or manned the engines from the early 1940s to the present.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, February 12th, at the Horry County Museum, located at 805 Main Street in Conway.
The Horry County Museum Documentary Film Matinees will continue throughout 2025. 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.

The Horry County Museum presents a program by Dr. Walter Curry on African American Confederate pensioners from South Carolina on Saturday, February 15th, at 1:00 PM. This presentation examines the factors that led South Carolina to employ African American labor during the American Civil War, the various functions that this labor fulfilled, the state's endorsement of Confederate pensions for African Americans, significant aspects of the pension application process, and prominent African American Confederate pensioners from South Carolina, particularly those hailing from Horry County and the Pee Dee Region.
Dr. Walter B. Curry, Jr., is a native of Orangeburg, South Carolina. He received a bachelor’s degree in political science from South Carolina State University, and has earned graduate degrees in education, which includes a doctorate degree in Curriculum & Instruction from Argosy University, Sarasota. In 2018, he launched Renaissance Publications, LLC., a self-publishing company, through which Dr. Curry publishes his books that focus on African American history through ancestry. Most recently, he has rebranded his company to Renaissance Publications, LLC.
Dr. Curry has published two award winning books, The Thompson Family: Untold Stories from the Past (1830-1960), and The Awakening: The Seawright-Ellison Family Saga, Vol.1, A Narrative History. Both books consist of stories that cover the lineage of Dr. Curry’s ancestry from slavery, The Civil War, The Reconstruction Era, and family life in Aiken, Orangeburg, Richland Counties and beyond. He has done book signings and presentations at local conferences, workshops, bookstores, and schools across the state and nationwide. His third book, South Carolina’s Matilda Evans: A Medical Pioneer, which is the biography of the first African American woman licensed to practice medicine in South Carolina, will be released on April 8th, 2025.
Additionally, Dr. Curry is the curator of Ancestral Reflections: The Thompson Family, an exhibit consisting of eight paintings that feature the individual experiences of enslaved relatives, including a woman who served in the Civil War; and individual agricultural and civic activities during past times in rural low country South Carolina. Inspired by stories from Dr. Curry's award-winning book The Thompson Family: Untold Stories from The Past (1830-1960).
Dr. Curry is the Author-In-Residence at the Aiken Center for the Arts located in Aiken, SC. As an Author-In-Residence, he provides learning engagements though exhibits to Aiken County Public Schools that bring the stories from his books to life. He has received numerous accolades for his work and service which includes two African American Historical and Genealogy Society book awards; legislative resolutions from the South Carolina General Assembly for his significant work in service to African American History and Heritage in South Carolina; Literary Titan Gold Awards; a recipient of the Martha Schofield “Work The Legacy” Award; member of the Inaugural South Carolina State University 40 Under 40; and selected as a 2022 Richland Two School District Black History Month honoree. He also serves as a member of the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room & Military Museum Commission, the South Carolina Arts Directory, and the South Carolina Humanities Speakers Bureau. Dr. Curry is also a Certified Interpreter Guide through the National Association for Interpretation.
Dr. Curry currently lives in Columbia, South Carolina with his wife, Takiyah S. Curry, who is a registered nurse and graduate of the University of South Carolina. They have two sons, Braxton & Braylon.
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.