Events

The Horry County Museum and the AVX Foundation present a program by Dr. Jeffrey Camper on Saturday, October 16th. Using photographs and live specimens, Dr. Camper will discuss the different snake species that are found throughout South Carolina.
Jeffrey Camper was born in Aurora, IL and began catching garter snakes at seven years old. He received a BS in Zoology from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, an MA in Biology from Drake University, and a Ph.D. in Wildlife & Fisheries Sciences from Texas A&M University. Dr. Camper has been teaching genetics, evolutionary biology, comparative anatomy & herpetology at Francis Marion University since 1994.

The 2021 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with Pirates of the Carolinas. Part of the Carolina Stories Series by SCETV, this hour long film digs up the true tales of treachery and villainy that occurred off the coasts of North and South Carolina during the Golden Age of Piracy
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, October 20th, at the Horry County Museum, located at 805 Main Street in Conway.
The Horry County Museum Documentary Film Matinees will continue throughout 2021. 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.

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 to help ensure social distancing. On October 23rd we’ll discuss the different types of plants that families would have in their winter garden. Children will also get a chance to make a ‘mini greenhouse’ to take home!
For information about available times and to register, contact Marian Calder at 843-915-7861 or email calder.marian@horrycounty.org. 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 and the AVX Foundation present a program on October 23rd by local author Sherman Carmichael on eerie stories from South Carolina’s past.
Sherman Carmichael has been interested in ghosts, UFO's and other strange things since an early age. Many of the stories he wrote throughout his school years were on the strange and unknown. At the age of 16 he subscribed to Fate Magazine and that led him to start investigating the paranormal. Carmichael has visited many sites with a haunted history. In his early years he wrote many stories on South Carolina ghosts for several newspapers. With hundreds of folders of research Carmichael decided to write a book. In March 2011 Forgotten Tales of South Carolina was published by The History Press in Charleston, S.C. Other books by Carmichael include Legends & Lore of South Carolina, Mysterious Tales of Western North Carolina, Mysterious Georgia, Mysterious South Carolina, and Eerie South Carolina

We’re talking corn at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm! Visitors of all ages are invited to join us Saturday, October 30th from 9 AM until 12 PM to learn all about how corn was grown and used in our farm communities. Visitors can try their hand at shelling corn and learn about the different ways that corn would be cooked in the farmhouse. Bring the kids by to make toys out of corn cobs and corn husks too! We’ll be having a costume contest at 11:30, so parents, have your kids dressed like a farmer and be ready to tell us what their favorite crop grown in Horry County is and why!

The 2021 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, November 3rd, at the Horry County Museum, located at 805 Main Street in Conway.
The Horry County Museum Documentary Film Matinees will continue throughout 2021. 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.

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 to help ensure social distancing. On November 6th we’ll discuss the different types of fossils that can be found in our area. Children will also have the chance to sort through a ‘mini dig’ to hunt for shark’s teeth.
For information about available times and to register, contact Marian Calder at 843-915-7861 or email calder.marian@horrycounty.org. 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 lecture by Donald Kirkpatrick at 1:00 PM on November 6th on a new, rare Early Paleocene vertebrate fossil locality in the Pee Dee Region.  Featuring fossils from his own collection, Mr. Kirkpatrick will discuss what areas he looks for fossils in, and the types that can be found in the Pee Dee. The public is invited to bring fossils from their personal collections, share stories of where they found their items and discuss what they may have.