Events

In honor of Gullah/Geechee Nation Appreciation Week, Queen Quet takes visitors on a journey through the museum’s latest exhibition, Beyond the Oaks: Lowcountry Plantations. This “histo-musical” presentation combines narrative and song and will be followed by a book and CD signing.

Join us for the launch of Book Club at the Morris Center. For the Summer, we are reading and discussing Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad.

About the Book

Cora is a young slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportunity and escapes with him. In Colson Whitehead’s ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor: engineers and conductors operate a secret network of actual tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil.

In this special edition of Paint and Sip, we explore the world of watercolor. Bring a bottle of wine and enjoy an evening with friends while painting your own Lowcountry galaxy nightscape. Artist Dawn Duff will walk you through the painting process. No experience necessary. All supplies are provided.

Members receive a 10% discount.

Jerry Morris is a Civil War reenactor from Barnwell, SC. In this talk, he will discuss how the uniforms and types of weaponry changed over the course of the American Civil War.