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Contact: Pelham Lyles at (803) 635-9811

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FAIRFIELD COUNTY MUSEUM PLANS SEVERAL FALL EVENTS

Pelham Lyles of the Fairfield County Museum announces several 
interesting programs for the public in coming weeks. A program on 
*Native Americans* on Oct. 7 will bring representatives from several 
organized tribes and organizations with entertaining and educational 
offerings in the tented backyard of the Museum during Winnsboro’s /Rock 
Around the Clock Festival/. On October 14, there will be a tent antique 
show and sale from 11 AM until 5 PM with offerings representing a number 
Midlands antique sellers and collectors. At 6 PM that evening a Gala 
membership / fundraiser for the Friends of the Museum will present a Low 
Country Boil supper and presentation by well-known author, Jim Kibler. 
Then, on Dec. 3, the Museum plans its annual /Christmas by Candle Light/ 
/Open House/ with an exhibit of antique toys.

The Oct. 7 Native American program will feature Catawba and Beaver Creek 
Pee Dee potters and beading artisans presenting traditional items for 
show and sale. The Pee Dee tribes of Chesterfield / Marlboro will sell 
barbecue, pork chops, and other grilled delights from their portable 
cookers. Cultural presentations and presenters in Native regalia will 
round out a day of learning about the state’s heritage and the ancestral 
roots of many of us. Representatives from such tribes and groups as the 
Santee, Cherokee, Natchez, Edisto, Croatan, Chicora, Wassamasaw, and 
Waccamaw are expected to attend. Archeologist John White will present a 
collection of spear points and other items of interest from the museum 
and his personal collections. The program will run from 11 AM to 5 PM 
and is free of charge to the public.

On October 14, the group *Friends of the Museum* will host its first 
gala evening event and all-day antiques forum. From 11 AM to 5 PM, 
antique collectors and representatives from several antique 
establishments will offer table-top selections of sale and display items 
such as small furniture pieces, utensils and implements, ceramics, art, 
and old books for sale. Some of the presenters lined up so far are Tim 
Wilkes with his majolica ceramics, John Cogan of Cogan’s Antiques, David 
Hensley, Christie Buchanan’s All Things Painted, Bill Hendrix of Blair 
Country Store, Jim Kibler’s antique books, Mike Bedenbaugh, Randy Berry 
of Newberry’s Books on Main, and David Aiken with his historic reprint 
books. Some items found in the museum’s restoration of Mrs. Francis 
Robertson’s eighteenth century log barn will also be offered for sale. 
The day event will charge $3 for admission at the gate and FOTM members 
with reservations for the evening gala will be admitted free. At 6 PM 
there will be a Low Country Boil supper served /al fresco / for $15 or 
$25/couple FOTM members and $20 or $30 /couple for non-members. 
Reservations must be made by calling the FOTM number at 800-405-6607. 
After supper, Dr. Jim Kibler, the author of _Our Fathers’ Fields_, 
_Walking Toward Home_, _Child to the Waters_, and the newest release, 
_Memory’s Keep,_ will speak and sign books. Jim has restored the old 
Hardy plantation in the Newberry County community of Maybinton. The 
historical, architectural, horticultural, and genealogical research that 
accompanied his rehabilitation of the early eighteenth century property 
is documented in the book _Our Fathers’ Fields._ This book won the 
Fellowship of Southern Writers Nonfiction Award and the Southern 
Heritage Society's Literary Achievement Award and has been a 
historic-interest best seller regionally.

This year’s annual /Christmas by Candle Light/ O/pen House (5 to 8 PM 
Dec. 3) will/ have the additional attraction of an exhibit of antique 
toys loaned for the show by regional collectors. The county’s garden 
clubs that usually decorate for this event will be joined by renowned 
floral decorator David Hensley who will also present a Christmas 
decorations workshop for groups wanting to assist in the decoration of 
the museum in a late nineteenth century theme. Natural materials from 
the countryside will be provided and a limited number of workshop 
participant slots will be offered, with garden club volunteers being 
given first “dibs” on the class. Details on this feature will be 
announced later. Local musicians will be on hand to perform traditional 
Christmas music and evening caroling will be encouraged. Refreshments 
will be served and the admittance is free.

The Museum is located at 231 S. Congress St., in downtown Winnsboro, a 
block and a half south

of the Robert Mills Court House and the well known landmark, the Town 
Clock Tower. Call the

FOTM at 800-405-6607 or Pelham Lyles at (803)635- 9811 for additional 
details.

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Pelham Lyles
Director
Fairfield County Museum
231 S. Congress St.
Winnsboro, S.C.
29180
fairfieldmus at chestertel.com 
tele. (803)635-9811
http://www.fairfieldchamber.org/museum.html