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Kids’ Book Club

Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt by Deborah Hopkinson will be the featured book at our Kids' Book Club. An International Reading Association Book Award recipient, this inspiring book tells the fictional story of a slave girl that creates a quilt map from scrapes of fabric and information. Join us this month to create your own... Read more »

Connections Cafe

Connections Café is a monthly program at the Upcountry History Museum, in partnership with the Alzheimer's Association of Greenville. Each meeting offers a fun and relaxed way for people living with early-stage memory loss to get connected with one another through social events that promote interaction and companionship. This is a place where the care... Read more »

Kids Book Club @ Home

With the Museum being closed, we are sharing our activity for the March book club program. This activity can be done at home and we encourage all of the family to join the fun. Enjoy and share your experiences on social media by using #UpcountryMuseum.   April 2020 - The Tale of Despereaux Brave, curious,... Read more »

The Underground Railroad

    “I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person now I was free. There was such a glory over everything, the sun came like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.” – Harriet Tubman     Underground Railroad: The William... Read more »

Read of the Week – Harriet Tubman

“I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.” – Harriet Tubman     After the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman Led a Brazen Civil War Raid Tubman applied intelligence she learned... Read more »