Museum to have Tobacco Heritage day

The friends of the Horry County Museum will be sponsoring the fifth annual Tobacco Heritage Festival on Aug. 1 from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m.

Hand tying and stringing of tobacco and a variety of domestic activities will be demonstrated at the L. W. Paul Living History Farm at the corner of State Highway 701 North and Harris Shortcut Road in Conway. Live music children’s activities, and interpretations of rural farm life in Horry County during the early 20th century will be featured as well. For information, call the Horry County Museum, on the corner of 5th Avenue and Main Street in historic downtown Conway, at (843) 915-5320.

The event is free and open to the public.