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Hi everyone,

I've got an inquiry from an NYT Fine Arts reporter looking for examples of museum exhibitions and programs focused on the 250th this fall (starting any time between September-December 2025). She is looking for examples of all types of museums across the country. If your museum has an exhibit or program on the 250th this fall, please reply to this thread or message/email me with your museum's information.

Thanks!
Natanya

I work at a small museum in South Carolina, the Georgetown County Museum. We have a very active Georgetown County 250 Committee due to the dedicated support of the South Carolina 250 Commission and my chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Carolina Gold Chapter. The Georgetown County 250 Committee holds monthly meetings on the third Thursday of each month at my museum. In September of 2022 the South Carolina 250 Commission met with a small group of stakeholders at my museum and asked us to serve as the General Francis Marion Interpretive Center. With a generous grant from the commission and amazing guidance the Francis Marion Interpretive Center Committee of eight we created five large interpretive panels and ten retractable banners on the Life and Legacy of General Francis Marion. The grand opening was held on April 19, 2025 with almost 175 people attending. The very first installment of the exhibit was a grand mural of General Francis Marion and Oscar Marion on the south side of our building which draws visitors daily from Front Street in Georgetown to our location at 120 Broad Street. There are four additional interpretive centers located throughout our wonderful state of South Carolina.

The Georgetown County 250 Committee met last night and we have an extremely busy schedule of event planned for the next two years. Our most recent event was the 276th Birthday Celebration of Thomas Lynch, Jr., our signer of the Declaration of Independence at Hopsewee Plantation. Our most immediate event will be in conjunction with the Carolina Gold Chapter, NSDAR for Constitution Day on September 17, 2025 held at Brookgreen Gardens in Murrells Inlet, SC. In October our Georgetown County 250 Committee will be volunteering for a full day at the South Carolina State Fair held from October 8-19, 2025. The South Carolina 250 Commission has reserved the Ruff Building on the fair grounds and each county committee has been asked to take one day to volunteer to welcome guests, answer questions, distribute materials, dress in period clothing, and provide living historians. In November of 2025 a Sweet Potato Festival will be held at Hasty Point Plantation just outside of Georgetown. In December our committee will be the Grand Marshall for the Christmas Parade in Georgetown and we plant to participate in the Murrells Inlet Boat Parade. Other projects in the works are a  Christmas Tour of Revolutionary related site in Georgetown in conjunction with Hobcaw Barony and the Belle W. Baruch Foundation, Foxes on Front which is a Colonial Dames created Scavenger Hunt for fox statues at historical sites in Georgetown, and a project in honor of the committee member that we lost this year, Jimmy Elliott, in which we will be marking the graves of known Revolutionary War Soldiers with bronze markers. This is just projects for the remainder of this year. 

Hi everyone,

I've got an inquiry from an NYT Fine Arts reporter looking for examples of museum exhibitions and programs focused on the 250th this fall (starting any time between September-December 2025). She is looking for examples of all types of museums across the country. If your museum has an exhibit or program on the 250th this fall, please reply to this thread or message/email me with your museum's information.

Thanks!
Natanya

Hi everyone,

I've got an inquiry from an NYT Fine Arts reporter looking for examples of museum exhibitions and programs focused on the 250th this fall (starting any time between September-December 2025). She is looking for examples of all types of museums across the country. If your museum has an exhibit or program on the 250th this fall, please reply to this thread or message/email me with your museum's information.

Thanks!
Natanya

Hi everyone,

I've got an inquiry from an NYT Fine Arts reporter looking for examples of museum exhibitions and programs focused on the 250th this fall (starting any time between September-December 2025). She is looking for examples of all types of museums across the country. If your museum has an exhibit or program on the 250th this fall, please reply to this thread or message/email me with your museum's information.

Thanks!
Natanya

Hi everyone,

I've got an inquiry from an NYT Fine Arts reporter looking for examples of museum exhibitions and programs focused on the 250th this fall (starting any time between September-December 2025). She is looking for examples of all types of museums across the country. If your museum has an exhibit or program on the 250th this fall, please reply to this thread or message/email me with your museum's information.

Thanks!
Natanya

Hi everyone,

I've got an inquiry from an NYT Fine Arts reporter looking for examples of museum exhibitions and programs focused on the 250th this fall (starting any time between September-December 2025). She is looking for examples of all types of museums across the country. If your museum has an exhibit or program on the 250th this fall, please reply to this thread or message/email me with your museum's information.

Thanks!
Natanya