*Upcoming Events At Upcountry History Museum

After Christmas Sale Saturday & Sunday – Dec. 26th & 27th Tuesday & Wednesday – Dec. 29th and 30th A special clearance section with prices you won’t believe! Also on these dates, Museum members will enjoy double discounts (20%) on all regularly priced merchandise.   Don’t miss out on these great deals – remember quantities are limited!

Curator’s Tour of Weaving Our Survival

January 6th at noon lasting one hour.
Museum Admission and additional tour charge of $10.00.  Tour participants will get a behind the scenes look at the development of the exhibit and will learn more history details.

Reservations Required – Only 15 Slots Available
To make reservations: info@upcountryhistory.org

 

 

  

Curator’s Tour of Weaving Our Survival

January 6th at noon lasting one hour.
Museum Admission and additional tour charge of $10.00.  Tour participants will get a behind the scenes
look at the development of the exhibit and will learn more history details.

Reservations Required – Only 15 Slots Available
To make reservations: info@upcountryhistory.org

 

 

  

Boy Scouts of America
Celebrates 100th Anniversary Saturday, January 9th & Sunday, January 10th
Scouts (adults and boys) in Class A uniforms get in FREE
Saturday:
11:00 – Tree planting ceremony
11:30 – Chief Scout Robert “Bob” Mazzuca
Both days: special Scout exhibits, Norman Rockwell paintings on loan from the Nation Scouting Museum in Texas
Regular museum hours all weekend

 

 

  

Homeschool Friday – Back in January
January 15, 2010: Inventions for Victory: WWII Technology
Throughout the Second World War, technology both saved lives and took them.  New technologies were in every field, including weaponry, medicine, and transportation.  In this program we will take a look at some of the most famous and infamous inventions of World War II and take a look at the Upcountry History Museum’s newest temporary exhibit, Weaving Our Survival.  Students will get a chance to participate in some hands-on activities, including working with real World War II artifacts and making a cipher disk to decode secret messages!

For more information: meg@upcountryhistory.org

*First Saturday concert at Hagood Mill

“J.C. Owens & Buffalo Barfield”
First Saturday Concert at Hagood Mill Saturday January 2, 2010

     The Pickens County Cultural Commission invites one and all for a free house concert from 12:00 till’ 2:00 at the Hagood Mill Historic Site & Folklife Center Saturday, January 2. The mill site is pleased to present in the Visitor’s Center South Carolina Folk Heritage Award winning master fiddler, J.C. Owens in concert with guitarist/singer/entertainer, Gregg “Buffalo” Barfield. Seating is limited and first come – first served. There will be an open jam from 2:00 until 3:00…there’s nothing like hearing and seeing great musicians and singers in an intimate, close setting. 

     The “spinning” ladies from Fiber Friends will be in the Hagood Cabin during the afternoon to demonstrate their craft and to introduce anyone interested to the art of spinning.

     The Mill Site is open Wed. through Sat. from 10:00 to 4:00, to tour the buildings and grounds. Hagood Mill is located three miles north of Pickens or five miles south of Hwy 11, just off Hwy 178 on Hagood Mill Road. For more information contact Hagood Mill at 864-898-2936 or the Pickens County Museum at 864-898-5963.

*Anderson County Museum’s Trade Street book

The Trade Street Book is now available at the Anderson County Museum.  For more information, click here.

*Historical Society items for sale

GREENVILLE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
211 East Washington Street, Suite C
Downtown Greenville
864-233-4103
http://www.greenvillehistory.org/
Open Monday – Wednesday, 9:00 – 12:00; Thursday, 1:00 – 4:00
Closed on Friday

Heritage Ornament/Suncatchers
Beautiful colorful stained glass ornaments created by artist Tina Steenerson.

This collection includes the following:

Buncombe Street Methodist Church
Carpenter Brothers Drug Store
Cherrydale
Christ Church
Falls Cottage
Furman Bell Tower
Greenville High School
Greenville Woman’s Club
Kilgore-Lewis House
Parker High School
Poinsett Club
Poinsett Hotel
Pretty Place
Record Building
Reedy River Falls

$20 each (may be purchased individually)
We also carry unique stationery, prints, books and historical photographs.
Call for more details or stop by during our office hours.  We look forward to meeting you!

*Find that something special at the Museum Shop

Get something extra at the Museum Shop

The Shop at the Greenville County Museum of Art is packed
with items for everyone on your list

Toys
Scarves
Calendars
Ties
Books
Jewelry
and much more!!

Download a coupon for $10 off any purchase of $50 or more by clicking here.

*’A Yuletide Celebration’ at Hagood Mill

Ed Harrison’s Celtic Christmas featured at “A Yuletide Celebration”
Saturday December 19 at the Hagood Mill Historic Site & Folklife Center

     Come join the friends of the Pickens County Museum as “Music in the Mountains 2009” winds up for the year with the Hagood Mill playing host for a free day of fun and a variety of great, uplifting music Saturday, December 19. From 12:00 to 3:00 in the Visitor Building will be some of the mill site’s best musician friends performing a “Celtic Christmas” show. Hosted by musician, Ed Harrison, the program will include Ed and Daniel Hendrix on Uilleane pipes; Sandy, Rebecca & Melissa Hendrix on vocals, tin whistle and keyboard; Kathy Shapiro on hammered dulcimer; storyteller, Bill Landrum and husband & wife duo, Lucy Allen & Marshall Goers. Lucy and Marshall will include some songs in German and Spanish. The site itself will be open from 10:00 until 4:00 with the old gristmill running and a variety of folklife demonstrations. Come experience a wonderful seasonal program in an intimate setting with some great musicians! Seating is limited and first-come, first-served.

     Other activities for the day for kids will include making old-time Christmas decorations for the mill site Christmas tree with Carolyn Peloza and Jeanette Moody on the Murphree-Hollingsworth Cabin porch and, from 12:00 till’ 2:00, a “shuck & shell” session with Roger Lindsay, next to the mill, letting kids experience the “fun” farm chore of shucking and shelling corn, like farm kids used to have to do in preparation of “going to the mill.” The corn is generously provided by Jesse Robertson of Robertson Farms.

     Hagood Mill operates just as it has for the last century-and-a-half. In the old mill, fresh stone-ground corn meal, grits and wheat flour will be available, as well as Hagood Mill cookbooks and a variety of other mill related items.

     The Hagood Mill hosts a variety of folklife and traditional arts demonstrations each month, including blacksmithing, bowl-digging, flintknapping, chair-caning, moonshining, broom-making, quilting, spinning, knitting, weaving, woodcarving, open-hearth cooking, and more! See Hagood Mill’s 1890 Cotton Gin and get a last look (for a while) of the mill site’s petroglyphs, before a protective covering goes over them.

     There promises to be lots to do and lots of fun! So, head on out, have a hot dog or a plate of barbeque and enjoy a day at the Mill. Show your support for the Mill and the Pickens County Museum by joining them at this monthly Third Saturday event. The Hagood Mill operates, rain or shine, the third Saturday of every month and is located just 3 miles north of Pickens or 5 ½ miles south of Cherokee Foothills Scenic Hwy 11 off SC Hwy 178 at 138 Hagood Mill Road. Hagood Mill is open Wednesday through Saturday from 10:00 until 4:00, to tour the buildings and grounds and to visit the Mill Site Gift Shop. 

     “Music in the Mountains 2009” is sponsored by a private benefactor. The Pickens County Museum of Art & History is funded in part by Pickens County, members and friends of the museum and a grant from the South Carolina Arts Commission, which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts.

   For additional information please contact the Hagood Mill at (864) 898-2936 or the Pickens County Museum at (864) 898-5963.

*Upcoming events at Anderson County Museum

Happy Holidays from ACM:

          The staff here at the Anderson County Museum would like to invite you to Pedal into the Past with Mike Cannon this Saturday, December 12 at 2 p.m. Mr. Cannon will display and discuss some of the most impressive pedal cars in his expansive collection. Included is Cannon’s most prized pedal car—a 1957 Fairlane Ford. He will teach visitors how to distinguish between an original pedal car and a replica. So, gather the young and the young at heart and come to the Anderson County Museum as we “pedal into the past” with Mike Cannon.

          On Saturday December 19 from 10 a.m. until noon we will launch our book Trade Street with a morning coffee. The Trade Street book includes 150 color and black and white photographs and postcards and was compiled and edited by ACM Volunteer Carl Compton and ACM Director Beverly Childs. Mr. Compton, a life-long Andersonian, will be available to discuss Anderson County History and the photographs and postcards included in Trade Street. We would also invite you to visit our latest permanent exhibit Trade Street: The History of Commerce in Anderson County – many of the photographs and artifacts in the exhibit are shown in the book.

          ACM has many exhibits and something for everyone. We are admission free and open to the public on Tuesdays 10 a.m. until 7 p.m. and Wednesday – Saturday 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Don’t forget to shop in our Museum Store for Christmas. Feel free to invite your friends and forward this e-mail. Thanks for all your support as we continue to preserve the history and heritage of Anderson County! Hope to see you in the coming weeks.

Beverly

Beverly Childs
Director, Anderson County Museum
202 East Greenville Street, Anderson, SC 29624
bchilds@andersoncountysc.org  ٠ http://www.andersoncountymuseum.org/
Museum: (864) 260-4737   ٠  Cell: (864) 314.7256

Museum Gallery & Store Hours: 
Tues 10 a.m.–7 p.m., Wed–Sat 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Reading and Research Room: Thurs 1 – 4 p.m. or by appointment

All Programs are FREE and Open to the Public

Winter Night Gala
Friday, January 15, 2010
Call 260.4737 for tickets

*Trade Street Book available December 19

The Anderson County Museum will host an event December 19th from 10 a.m. to noon to celebrate the publication of The Trade Street Book.  Click here for more information about the book and the event.

*Parker High School tour (sorry, late post)

PHS Alumni & Friends:
 
          For all those who are interested in touring the PHS Campus and/or in efforts to save the Parker High School Campus, please meet in front of the auditorium on Thursday, 12/10/09 at 2:00 PM.  Kyle Moore (‘84) has arranged for the tour.
 
          Given the fact that there are several groups with varying degrees of vision for the future use of the PHS facilities, it is of upmost importance that all “PHS Lovers” come together and explore the various options before it is indeed too late.  Remember:  “It Can Be Done”.

*Artifacts need good home…

Farm equipment – hay cradle, baskets, plows.  In Due West area.

AT&T switchboard from a hotel in Greenville.  Hotel was on North Laurens Road and had rocking chairs on the porch.

Please ask Dawn Hammatt for contact information.  She can be reached at dawn@upcountryhistory.org