Events

The 2024 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with Hallowed Ground: Primitive Camp Meetings of the South Carolina Lowcountry. This film features the St. Paul Camp Meeting, located in Harleyville, South Carolina, approximately 45 miles northwest of Charleston. Similar meetings were first started in the late 1700s by the horseback evangelist, Bishop Francis Asbury, along with African American evangelist, Harry Hosier, who rode with him to conduct “brush arbor” worship services for white planters and those enslaved on their plantations. In the Dorchester County pine forests of South Carolina these camp-meetings have “tents” built and owned by long-standing extended families from their respective communities. The campgrounds are all located within a 20 mile radius of each other near St. George, SC. At five different times each year these camp-meetings draw more than 3,000 congregants from extended families and friends of families nationwide. These congregants stay for a week and are invited to the “tents” of family members, the worship services, and to enjoy the Southern home-cooked meals prepared 3-times-a-day on wood stoves in each tent during the seven days of camp-meeting. St. Paul began in the decades after emancipation, when four leaders of the St. Paul community purchased property to hold religious services. Interviews for the St. Paul meeting feature new and lifetime participants of the event and focus on the importance of food, faith, and fellowship in this historic annual gathering.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, February 28th, at the Horry County Museum, located at 805 Main Street in Conway.
The Horry County Museum Documentary Film Matinees will continue throughout 2024. 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 Saturday, March 2nd, for a free 30 minute activity at the Farm! Parents can sign children up for a half hour session between 9 AM-11 AM. Group sizes will be limited. Children will learn about a few of the common vegetables grown on the family farm and start a mini […]

The Horry County Museum presents a program by Jason Flynn on creating and caring for a multi-species beneficial garden space on March 2nd at 1 PM. With the promise of spring around the corner, now is the time to understand that gardening can provide a multi-layered experience of understanding and growth. Jason will discuss the basics of planning and caring for a native plant garden and an organic vegetable garden. Understanding how these two types of gardens can be inter-designed to benefit not only humans, but also the environment will help provide a deeper understanding of the correlations found in nature that humans are a part of.

Jason Flynn is a horticulturist at Brookgreen Gardens with a Bachelor's Degree in Environmental Studies and a lifelong interest in understanding the interconnections found within the natural and manmade world. In addition to creating the South Carolina Geologic Garden at Brookgreen Gardens, he cares for the native garden, a display of plants that grow in the wild of South Carolina, with ecologically friendly practices. Jason also cares for Bethea's Garden, an organic vegetable garden that utilizes sustainable practices, and has a strong emphasis on educating on the diversity of vegetables grown in the south and their importance to a healthy community and ecosystem.

The lecture will be held in the Museum’s McCown Auditorium located at 805 Main Street, Conway, SC 29526. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 843-915-5320 or email hcg.museum@horrycountysc.gov. For more information about programs for 2024, visit the museum website at www.horrycountymuseum.org.

We’re celebrating textiles throughout March at the Horry County Museum! Join us March 5th at 11 AM for a program by Brenda Grampsas on labeling quilts. This program will go over why quilters should add a label, how to make and attach it, and what to include on the label. Your questions about quilt labels will be answered and your quilts will be valued more because of the addition of a simple label.
Brenda has a lifetime of sewing and quilting experience with a passion for all things quilted. Her experience in teaching the “how to” of quilting extends not only to adults but many years of quilting classes with children and teens. Watching others catch the “quilt bug” through her shared trunk shows, lectures and workshops feeds the natural teacher in her. She is inspired by quilts from many eras and is especially fascinated by scrap quilts because of their wide range of fabrics. Brenda is very involved in the restoration of quilts. Teaching others the art of restoration has become advantageous due to the many requests for restoration service. More information can be found on Brenda’s website www.thimbletales.com.
The program will be held 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 hcg.museum@horrycounty.org. To view a full list of programs, visit our website at www.horrycountymuseum.org.

We’re celebrating textiles throughout March at the Horry County Museum! Stop by to hear from local quilters on a range of topics. In addition to the free programming, you’ll have a chance to win a door prize at every event! Join us Wednesday, March 6th at 10 AM as local quilter Deanna Holter shows a variety of Chandelier & Milky Way quilts.  These beautiful quilts and quilt tops were made in a class taught by Deanna at the Conway Quilt Guild.  She will also discuss how the look of a pattern can change by the use of color.

Deanna Holter started her quilting career around 1982 with Eleanor Burns and Quilt in a Day. In that program, quilters didn’t use long arm quilts, but instead sewed an ‘x’ from corner to corner. She has since altered her original piece and quilts on her long arm machine. After her first piece, Deanna didn’t make any more quilts until moving to South Carolina in 2005. She found a cute pattern and went to town making quilts for each of her sister in laws. Those quilts got her started on a quilting journey in which she connected with the Grand Strand Quilters. There she met Joan Wobbleton and began volunteering to make Quilts of Valor quilts. Wanting to be a part of a closer knit guild, Deanna joined the Conway Quilt Guild. Deanna feels very grateful to be part of a group of who she calls wonderful and caring ladies that have also been involved in many ceremonies to present quilts to veterans in the Conway area.

The program will be held 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 hcg.museum@horrycountysc.gov. To view a full list of programs, visit our website at www.horrycountymuseum.org.

The 2024 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with SC A to Z. This film, part of the Carolina Stories Series by SCETV, takes a light-hearted look at favorite places and homegrown things, spanning the alphabet to showcase all that South Carolina is and has to offer. From the ACE Basin and the Arthur Ravenel Bridge to the Yorktown aircraft carrier and Zentrum (BMW’s visitor’s center), South Carolina A to Z is a vivid look at the unique offerings of South Carolina. Cameras spotlight the familiar (Brookgreen Gardens, Palmetto trees) to the not-so-familiar (Edgefield pottery, locally-grown rice, UFO Welcome Center) for a glimpse of what makes our state so special.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, March 6th, at the Horry County Museum, located at 805 Main Street in Conway.
The Horry County Museum Documentary Film Matinees will continue throughout 2024. 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 will host a free workshop on Embroidery for Beginners Thursday, March 7th at 10 AM. Participants will learn a few of the basic embroidery stitches and create a small piece to take home. Space is limited, pre-registration is required. To sign up, contact Marian Calder at 843-915-7861 or email calder.marian@horrycountysc.gov.
The Horry County Museum is located at 805 Main Street, Conway, SC 29526. For more information about programming at the Museum, visit our website at www.horrycountymuseum.org.

We’re celebrating textiles throughout March at the Horry County Museum! Stop by to hear from local quilters on a variety of topics. In addition to the free programming, you’ll have a chance to win a door prize at every event! Join us Friday, March 8th at 11 AM as local quilter Jill Messier shows off a collection of “First Quilts” and shares the stories behind them. The collection is supplied by quilters from the Conway Quilt Guild and many remain with the person who first pieced them together.
Jill Messier moved to Conway from Enfield, Connecticut in 2018 and arrived two days before Hurricane Florence. She began quilting in the 1970s after visiting a neighbor who quilts. Messier used the book Lap Quilting by Georgie Bonesteel to create a quilt in the Grandmother’s Fan pattern. After preparing and sewing the quilt by hand, Messier soon found that she had a new hobby. She has currently finished nearly 100 quilts ranging in size from baby to king, with all but 2 being quilted by hand. Many quilts have been kept or gifted to friends and family, while some have won ribbons at shows. She also likes to use leftover material to create other items, such as origami butterflies, wallets, cozies, iPad covers and purses.
The program will be held 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 hcg.museum@horrycountysc.gov. To view a full list of programs, visit our website at www.horrycountymuseum.org.