Events

The public is invited to view a special Quilts of Valor display and presentation at the Horry County Museum. Quilts made especially for local veterans will be on display at the Museum December 17th through January 10th. A presentation of the quilts to veterans will take place January 11th in the Museum’s auditorium at 1:00 pm at 805 Main Street, Conway, SC 29526.

The mission of the Quilts of Valor Foundation (QOVF) is to cover all service members and veterans, touched by war, with a comforting and healing quilt. In 2003, Catherine Roberts, the founder of the QOVF, had a son deployed to Iraq. She struggled with how to stay busy and keep her mind busy while he was in harm’s way. One night, she had a dream where she saw a man sitting on the side of a bed, shaking. In her dream, a quilt was placed around his shoulders and he seemed to be comforted. As a nurse and quilter, Roberts then decided she would make and send quilts to Kandahar. Each stretcher that had a wounded veteran got a red, white and blue quilt placed on their stretcher. After six years, the foundation decided to award a quilt to any veteran who served during wartime era, from WWII to present. Since 2003, the foundation, now a national organization, has awarded 216,471 quilts.

The monthly Active Adult Series at the Horry County Museum will continue on January 21st at 1:00 PM with a program on Southeastern Native Americans. Join us to learn about the history and culture of the earliest residents of Horry County. The Active Adult Series is held the third Tuesday of each month and is perfect for new residents to the area, or lifetime locals who want to learn more about the place that they call home.

The 2020 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with a documentary by South Carolina ETV on inductees from the Antebellum 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.

Visit the L.W. Paul Living History Farm to celebrate the pig! Winter was the time of year for curing pork on the farm and a season when the family was dependent on home preserved foods during the cold winter months. Join us as staff and volunteers demonstrate how pork was preserved and prepared on the family farm during the early twentieth century in Horry County. Demonstrations will include smoking and salting meat, making pork sausage, cooking on a wood burning stove, making lye soap, grinding grits, blacksmithing and more.

This free event will be held January 25th from 9:00 am until 3:00 pm. The L. W. Paul Living History Farm is located at 2279 Harris Short Cut Road in Conway, South Carolina.

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, January 28th from 9:00 AM-3:00 PM to see how clothes would have been washed using a scrub board and wash pot. From 11:00 until 1:00, staff will clean and oil part of the mule harness at the pack house.
A free, hour long, guided tour of the farm will be available to the public starting at 3:00 PM.
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 Short Cut Road in Conway, SC. For more information, call the L. W. Paul Living History Farm at 843-915-5321 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.