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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 »

Film of the Week

Each week we will recommend a new film that either highlights local, Upcountry history or one of our changing exhibitions. Explore history from the comfort of your couch and then make a trip out to the Museum once we are able to reopen our doors.     WEEK ONE For the week of April 6,... Read more »

Read of the Week

  "Maybe you have a mental picture of a woman writer and lecturer as an unrouged, stringy haired creature. If you do you are in for a big surprise when you meet Mrs. Eudora Ramsay Richardson. For she is good-looking." -New Sentinel, March 31, 1932 KEEP UP THE FIGHT: Eudora Ramsay Richardson and the Evolution... 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 »