- Indigo Workshop ◊ March 16, 2024
Join Drayton Hall for an Indigo Dyeing Class with CHI Design Indigo! Guests will learn the process and techniques for dyeing fabric with the historically significant plant inside the Lenhardt Garden in our Education Pavilion. During this workshop, guests will dye their own four piece napkin set!
This unique three hour, hands-on workshop is on Saturday, March 16, 2024 at 10:00 am.
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- Preview Party for The Charleston Show ◊ March 21, 2024
Celebrate the opening night of The Charleston Show, formerly known as the Spring Antiques Show, at the exclusive Preview Party on Thursday, March 21, 2024 at Festival Hall in downtown Charleston, SC! Enjoy a remarkable evening benefiting Drayton Hall Preservation Trust with a dazzling cocktail party and a special exhibit titled Flights of Fancy: An Exploration of Uncommon Birds. Then get early night-before access to all The Charleston Show has to offer.
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Sip and Stroll at Drayton Hall ◊ March 30, 2024
You are invited to attend the most extraordinary outdoor Charleston food and wine event. On select dates throughout 2024, you will be welcomed to historic Drayton Hall, c.1738 and Conde Nast Traveler’s Best Place to See In South Carolina – the must see visit of your trip to Charleston, SC – to enjoy our new Landscape Audio Tour. Guests will be served wine and local brews while walking the grounds and learn about the historic happenings on the landscape. Guests will also receive a complimentary wine glass, or koozie, to take home.
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- Today’s Southern Garden ◊ March 10, 2024
Join national gardening experts Brie Arthur and Jenks Farmer for an engaged and eye-opening look at “What I’ve Learned”. Enjoy an exclusive curated plant sale, mimosa and mocktail mixer, lunch, special tours, and engaging garden talk with friends and fellow gardeners.
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- Easter Egg Hunt ◊ March 24, 2024
Our annual Easter Egg hunt will be Sunday, March 24 from 1:00-4:00 pm! The event is included with Garden Admission. Enjoy crafts, egg hunts, face painting, food and drink, Easter Bunny photos, and plenty of color in the gardens. Stay a while, bring a picnic blanket, and enjoy a family fun day. All tours will operate as usual.
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- Garden Sip and Stroll ◊ March 29-30, 2024
Join us for a self-guided stroll through Magnolia’s romantic style gardens during an exclusive after-hours experience as you explore the spectacular river vistas, colorful plant displays, ancient camellias and massive live oaks draped in Spanish moss.
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- Women of Middleton Place ◊ March 1 – May 3, 2024
This exhibit will focus on the women – both free and enslaved – associated with Middleton Place during the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Specifically, this exhibit will not only focus on their individual lives, but also on their roles as wives, mothers, daughters, enslavers, and enslaved people.
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- Stories of African and African American Women ◊ March 2,9, 23 and 30, 2024
In honor of Women’s History Month, this thirty minute walking tour discusses the African and African-American women who helped build, maintain and restore Middleton Place in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.
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- Sheep and Wool Day in the Stableyards ◊ March 16, 2024
Red Creek Farm will be doing sheep herding demos featuring their hardworking and talented Border Collies; and you won’t want to miss their adorable duck herding bonus demonstration!
RiverSong Shearing will be sheering our flock of Gulf Coast sheep. Their safe and efficient approach to sheep shearing is an impressive sight to see.
Middleton Place textile experts will be exhibiting wool skirting, carding, and a variety of additional wool-based applications.
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–Tidelines Editors