Horry County Museum Lecture Series: Agrarian Folklore & Folk Remedies

Rural farming communities have long been places where people lived and worked closely with the land for their daily survival. Folklore springs from this in ways such as knowing if the "signs" are right for certain crops or other farm activities, a concept that drives much of the information in the widely used Farmer’s Almanac to this day. Agrarian communities also were often distant from doctors, or people couldn’t afford to see a doctor regularly. This encouraged folk remedies using mostly ingredients you could find on the average farm, as well as community faith healers.

Join us on Sept. 18 at 1 p.m. to learn more about local agrarian folklore and folk remedies with Horry County Museum Technical Assistant Abigail Geedy.

Geedy was born and raised in south-central Pennsylvania and moved to South Carolina for college in 2012. She has both an Anthropology Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree and a Graduate Certificate of Museum Management from the University of South Carolina. She began volunteering in museums in 2011 and has worked in curation at the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology for the last five years. In 2020, she joined the Horry County Museum as a Technical Assistant.

The program will be held in the McCown Auditorium located at 805 Main Street in Conway. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, call (843) 915-5320 or email hcgmuseum@horrycounty.org. To view a full list of programs, visit our website at horrycountymuseum.org.