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J.R. Fennell & Trish Shandor: Antique Quilts of Lexington County

Horry County Museum 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, United States

Throughout the month of March, the Horry County Museum will host a variety of textile themed programs in celebration of our 27th Annual Quilt Gala.
The public is invited to join us on March 5th at 1 pm for a program by J.R. Fennell and Trish Shandor of the Lexington County Museum. This presentation will focus on the quilts and decorative arts of Dutch Fork and Lexington County. Visitors will learn about the German and Swiss German influences in quilts found in Lexington County and will also have the opportunity to view some of the quilts from the Lexington County Museum’s collections. Admission is free.
The program will begin at 1:00 pm at the Horry County Museum, located at 805 Main Street, Conway SC. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 843-915-5320 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.

Tina Harr-Wrapped up in Quilting

Horry County Museum 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, United States

The Horry County Museum will host a free quilt turning featuring wall hangings and large quilts by local quilter Tina Harr. Tina’s talk will be held at the Horry County Museum (805 Main Street, Conway, SC) on Tuesday, March 9th at 1 PM.
A native of the Hudson Valley in New York, Tina Harr is proud to call Conway her home for over 10 years. Her first sewing experience was with her grandmother making 9 patch blocks the old fashioned way: marking the fabric with a pen and square cut from a cereal box and doing all the cutting with scissors. The quilts they made were tied and a bedsheet was the backing material.
In 2000, Tina joined a quilt group in NY and learned about all the innovations that had happened since the early '70's, rotary cutters, thick plastic templates......etc. Being part of the Serendipity Stitchers was something she missed when she first moved to Conway, and when her friend Patsy Ray told her about the Conway Quilters she joined them in their second year. The things Tina loves most about the group are their charitable endeavors and being part of the Quilts of Valor program.
This program is free to the public. For more information, call 843-915-5320 or email hcgmuseum@horrycounty.org. To view a full list of programs, visit our website at www.horrycountymuseum.org.

Kathleen Stuart: Wholecloth Quilts

Horry County Museum 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, United States

The Horry County Museum will host a free program by quilter Kathleen Stuart on March 10th on Wholecloth Quilts. When it comes to “traditional” quilts, Kathy prefers to make wholecloth quilts using the traditional medallion style, however, she likes to use luxe fabrics such as silk dupioni or sateen and often incorporates machine embroidery. Kathy also likes to use fabric paints on her wholecloth quilts and Swarovski crystals.

Originally from Regina, Saskatchewan, Kathy now lives in North Carolina so that she can enjoy the warmer weather. She has been interested in every aspect of fiber since the age of four, having tried almost every technique including knitting, crochet, needlepoint, tatting, macramé and quilting, although she didn’t begin to quilt until 2001. 

Incident at Mars Bluff

Horry County Museum 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, United States

The 2021 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with Incident at Mars Bluff. This 30 minute film, part of the Carolina Stories Series by SCETV, explores how the world’s most technologically advanced air power came to drop a three-ton nuclear device on a small town in South Carolina. Interviews with the surviving members of the Gregg family will reveal how the incident affected them then and to this day. Additional interviews with surviving crewmembers, Air Force personnel, Mars Bluff residents and Cold War historians will shed light on the incident and provide local, national and international perspectives to the world’s first nuclear blunder.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, March 10th, 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.

Hearts & Hands: The Influence of Women & Quilts on American Society

Horry County Museum 805 Main Street, Conway, SC, United States

We’re celebrating quilts throughout March at the Horry County Museum. Join us for the film Hearts & Hands: The Influence of Women & Quilts on American Society. This film presents a vital part of American history, the role played by women and their textiles in the nineteenth century’s great movements and events including the Civil War, the abolition of slavery, westward expansion, the suffrage and temperance movements. The film explores the astonishing lives and accomplishments of ordinary, often anonymous women as well as chronicling the lives of extraordinary individuals such as Harriet Tubman, Elizabeth Keckley, Frances Willard and Abigail Scott Duniway. The film is free to the public on loop all day, Thursday, March 11th, at the Horry County Museum, located at 805 Main Street in Conway.
For a full list of programs, 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.

Indigo Workshop

L.W. Paul Living History Farm 2279 Harris Short Cut Rd, Conway, SC, United States

The L.W. Paul Living History Farm will host a free hands-on workshop on indigo dyeing on March 12th and March 26th at 10 AM. Participants will learn about the history of indigo in South Carolina and have the opportunity to design and dye their own handkerchief. Space is limited to 15 people, pre-registration is required. To sign up, contact Marian Calder at 843-915-7861 or email calder.marian@horrycounty.org.
The L.W. Paul Living History Farm is located at 2279 Harris Short Cut Road, Conway, SC 29526. For more information about the Farm, the Horry County Museum, or programming at both sites, visit our website at www.horrycountymuseum.org.