Events

The 2019 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with Waves of Change: The Story of Myrtle Beach, SC.  This series follows almost a century in the history, development, and people of the sleepy beach village that became a national tourist destination. It explores how the community of Myrtle Beach has dealt with two major goals-to bring people to the beach and to build a hometown. It also explores some of the major setbacks to development as well as the forces and people that propelled its growth. And it discusses the next wave of change-continued increase in growth and the challenges that come with that growth.

Junior Curators is back at the Horry County Museum on Saturday, August 24th from 9 AM-10 AM. This free, family friendly, program is open to children ages 5 and older and will teach children the history and natural history of Horry County through hands on activities. In this session, children will learn about hurricanes and the impact they’ve had on our area. Children are also invited to come and record their experiences with recent storms. Parents must remain with children. To participate, sign up with Marion Haynes at haynesm@horrycounty.org or call 843-915-7861.

The Horry County Museum and the AVX Foundation present a program by Randy Webster on Saturday, August 24th. This program will feature an in-depth discussion about hurricane preparedness and what it means to you.

Randy Webster is the Interim Assistant County Administrator for Public Safety. He has 35 years of public safety experience in Emergency Management, EMS and Fire service fields. He began his career with Horry County in 1989 just before Hurricane Hugo hit the east coast. In 2016, Webster was named EMD Director of the Year during the annual South Carolina Emergency Management Association Workshop. He has presented at conferences regionally and nationally and has served on many boards and committees throughout the state including the South Carolina Homeland Security Advisory Council, the National Hurricane Conference Response Committee, and as President of the South Carolina Emergency Management Association.

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, August 27th from 9:00 AM-3:00 PM to see how clothes would have been washed using a scrub board and wash pot. From 11 AM-12 PM staff will discuss ways of repelling insects around the farm house.

 A free, hour long, guided tour of the farm will be available to the public starting at 3:00 PM.

The 2019 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.

Due to the uncertainty of the forecast and conditions related to Hurricane Dorian, the Horry County Museum and the L.W. Paul Living History Farm have cancelled their scheduled programs for the week of September 3rd through September 7th.

Cancellations include:

The Museum Matinee: South Carolinians in WWII, the Cooking Demonstration at the Farm, Jr. Farmers, Farm Harvest Day, and Lee Brockington: Women of the Waccamaw.