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Living History reenactors display Colonial skills such as musket firing, woodworking, fireplace cooking, candle making, crafts, and baking in the Beehive oven. Special talks and tours will also be available. Held the 3rd Saturday of each month May through August.
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- August 16, 2008, 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
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Join us for our popular Moonlight Cemetery Tours on full moon evenings during the summer. Guides in period costume will share stories and tales from Elmwood Cemetery, one of Columbia's most significant historical burial sites.The tour will provide interesting historical facts about early Columbia as well as the lives, deaths and burials of many of its 19th and 20th century citizens.
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- August 16, 2008, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
- September 15, 2008, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
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Jubilee offers an array of programs and activities while celebrating the remarkable life and contributions of freed slave Celia Mann and her descendants, who lived and worked at this historic site until 1970. Enjoy a full day of cultural activities along the entire block of Marion Street with some of the Southeast’s best demonstration artists, musical performers, and vendors.
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Kings Mountain National Military Park, along with partner organizations such as the Daughters of the American Revolution, Sons of the American Revolution, and the Overmountain Victory Trail Association, honor those that fell at the Battle of Kings Mountain. Special ceremonies will be held with a key note speaker and wreath laying ceremony.
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- October 7, 2008
- October 7, 2009
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Come immerse yourself in Revolutionary War History at the Francis Marion Symposium in Manning. The theme is “Francis Marion and his Contemporaries”. You can immerse yourself in Francis Marion's world with: Horatio Gates, Nathanael Greene, Mary Esther Videau Marion, John Rutledge, Hezekiah Maham, Marion's significance and the modern applications of Marion's actions. This is a unique opportunity to celebrate the story of the Revolutionary War in South Carolina. The Saturday "dinner theater" will be An Evening in Revolutionary War History.
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- October 10, 2008, 2:00 PM - 10:00 PM
- October 11, 2008, 9:00 AM - 10:00 PM
- October 16, 2009, 2:00 PM - 10:00 PM
- October 17, 2009, 9:00 AM - 10:00 PM
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 Manning |
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Guided tours proceed along the one-mile historic trail, which is illuminated by the soft glow of candlelight and torchlight. Along the way, costumed volunteers portray Colonial citizens and soldiers who tell stories of peace and war at old Ninety Six in the 1700's. It’s an unusual program you will want to see and share with the whole family!
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- October 11, 2008, 7:00 PM - 8:20 PM
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Ninety Six |
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This event provides hands-on experience and a glimpse of life from 1735 - 1785. Blacksmithing, open-fire cooking, goldsmithing, spinning and musket firing are among the demonstrations. Exhibits include a working smokehouse and a beehive bake oven.Tavern, blacksmith forge, backwoods cabin, and educational cabin.Very Educational and entertainment through out the day. small battle at 2 pm
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- October 18, 2008, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
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Craftworkers demonstrate the skills practiced by slaves as they prepared the antebellum plantation for harvest time. Different aspects of 18th and 19th century plantation life will be explored each Saturday: domestic skills, African-American traditional arts, Lowcountry foodways and the plantation natural environment. Included in regular admission.
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- November 1, 2008 - November 29, 2008, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Every Week on Saturday
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 Charleston |
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Experience the Revolutionary War campaign trail at this annual weekend excursion into the Southern Campaign. Some 400 re-enactors and living history interpreters pitch tents where the British spent a rough year in 1780. Daily battle at 1:30 pm. Demonstrations, 18th century craftsmen, period fashion show and dancing, campfire cooking competition, military courts and round table discussion, kids activities and much more. Terrific outing for the whole family! Free parking.
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- November 1, 2008, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
- November 2, 2008, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
- November 7, 2009, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
- November 8, 2009, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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 Camden |
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Heritage Days Celebration is a cultural event celebrating the Gullah/Geechee/Sea Island history, folk arts, food, music, crafts, and West African cultural legacy. Located at the Penn School, one of the first schools for enslaved Africans on St. Helena Island, visitors can experience the unique setting of the 50-acre historic campus of Penn Center. Special events for the weekend include "The Heritage Symposium and Sea Island Breakfast" featuring an educational panel presentation on "Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement." Featured artist, Jonathan Green, will appear at Juried Art Exhibition and Poetry Competition on Saturday, Nov. 10th. Selections from the Hewitt Collection of African-American art will be on display at the historic Penn Center's York W. Bailey Museum during the Heritage Days Celebration through December 14. The exhibition will feature more than 25 works by such renowned artists as Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Ernest Crichlow, James Denmark, Eugene Grigsby and Jonathan Green.
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- November 6, 2008 - November 8, 2008
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