Events

Join us for free 30 minute Saturday activities at the Farm! Parents can sign children up for one of four half hour sessions starting at 9 AM. Group sizes will be limited per session to help ensure social distancing. On October 2nd, children will learn about indigo and design and dye their own handkerchief 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 times are 9, 9:30, 10 or 10:30, please specify which session you would like when signing up.
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 L.W. Paul Living History Farm will host a free hands-on workshop on indigo on October 2nd at 1 PM. 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.

The 2021 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with South Carolina Ghosts & Legends Vol. I. Part of the Carolina Stories Series by SCETV, this 30 minute film tracks the legends and lore from South Carolina’s past in a haunting journey from the Old Exchange Dungeon in Charleston to the Abbeville Opera House in the Upstate. Search for the Lands’ End Ghost that walks the Carolina coast and maybe the most famous of all, the Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, October 6th, 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.

Visitors of all ages are invited to join us Saturday, Oct 9th from 9 AM-12 PM at the L.W. Paul Living History Farm to learn about one of our favorite fall foods, the sweet potato! Visit the farm house for cooking demonstrations, get your hands dirty helping harvest this year’s sweet potato crop, and enjoy outdoor children’s activities in the farm yard.
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.

The 2021 Horry County Museum Documentary Film Series continues with American Odyssey: The Voyage of Christopher Columbus. Filmed on site in the Caribbean, this locally produced film is narrated by local author and historian Rod Gragg and features modern day footage, artwork, and historical images to tell the life and story behind the historic voyage that led to the discovery of the ‘new world’.
The film is free to the public and will be shown at 1:00 PM, Wednesday, October 13th, 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 16th we’ll discuss a few of the different types of snakes that can be found in South Carolina, and a few that would be common on the family farm.
For information about available times and to register, contact Marian Calder at 843-915-7861 or email calder.marian@horrycounty.org.
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 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!