Oct
20
On Saturday, October 28, the S.C. Confederate Relic Room & Military Museum will again host the South Carolina Military Miniature Society’s Annual Toy Soldier Show. This is the SCMMS’ 32nd annual show, and the Relic Room’s second time as a venue for the event. Having hosted last year, we now...
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Oct
10
We’ve told you again and again that the new Vietnam exhibit at the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum is something special. Now we have official affirmation of that viewpoint from the South Carolina Federation of Museums. Last month, the federation gave the Relic Room its Award of...
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Oct
08
Sometimes, the audience that shows up for a Lunch & Learn program at the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum in Columbia is as interesting as the program. On Sept. 15, the museum observed National POW/MIA Recognition Day with a special program. Our former curator of history, Fritz...
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Sep
08
On a wall just as you leave the Relic Room’s new Vietnam exhibit, you’ll see something you might not fully understand at once: a work of art – part painting, part collage – that reflects the personal experiences of an artist who served in the war. You’d understand it better...
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Sep
05
On Friday, Sept. 15, the United States will observe National POW/MIA Recognition Day to honor Americans who were either prisoners of war or went missing in action, particularly during the Vietnam War. POWs and the missing will be the focus of a special program that day at noon at the...
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Aug
29
When Peyton Wooldridge graduated from Mary Baldwin College in 1968, she had a job teaching 3rd grade waiting for her. But a letter from her school friend Caroline in Vietnam persuaded her to take a different course: “Peyton, you've got to come. It will change your life,” Caroline wrote. Caroline...
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Jun
28
Have you ever seen photographs of Revolutionary War soldiers? Well, you can do just that at the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum starting Friday, June 30, when a new exhibit opens featuring an extraordinary collection of daguerreotypes. And...
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Jun
12
In some parts of Vietnam, the Viet Cong lived for months at a time under the Earth, in elaborate tunnel systems so sophisticated that they included hospitals, training areas, and storage facilities as well as barracks. But from the surface, they just looked like holes in the dirt that only...
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Jun
05
Retired Col. Myron Harrington, USMC, hasn’t visited the new Vietnam exhibit at the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum yet. But when he does, he’ll see something familiar – the fatigues he wore in battle. A few yards away, he’ll see something else, also a part of the...
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May
12
COLUMBIA, S.C. – The South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum is all about honoring those who have served in uniform since our nation’s beginning. So we are once again proud to participate this summer in the Blue Star Museums initiative, which provides free admission to currently-serving U.S. military...
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