This is Brookgreen Gardens, Part 6 - Education Programs - Episode 6

Brookgreen Gardens offers several interpretative or education programs. Horry Georgetown Technical College uses the grounds and greenhouses for horticultural classes. The sculptures provide art history lessons.

There is the Gullah-Geechee days that bring African American history to life via the lowcountry trail. Ron Daise serves as Vice President of Creative Education. Visitors learn about the rice plantations, the process and the skills involved from over 500 enslaved African Americans.

Through an archaelogical dig, the old plantation and slavery village were discovered.

Brookgreen Gardens has events for the public year-round. Visitors can annually enjoy Nights of a Thousand Candles in December.

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Brookgreen's story begins more than 250 years ago when Europeans saw the potential for growing rice here and the backbreaking labor of enslaved Africans carved rice fields out of the swamps...

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The former rice plantations of the Waccamaw Neck began selling at bargain prices. A group of sportsmen bought Springfield, Laurel Hill, Brookgreen and The Oaks to use as a hunting preserve. They...

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The sculpture collection at Brookgreen Gardens include works by many great figurative artists of the time like Paul Manship,Paul Jennewein, and Frederick Remington. Anna sculpted her own work...

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Brookgreen Gardens offers a diversity in terms of our sculpture, horticulture, history and ecology. Initially when Brookgreen was first put together, it was a place where the native plants and flora...

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The Huntingtons' commitment to animals lives on at Brookgreen today. Native creatures find a safe home here, and the Lowcountry wildlife area exhibits both wild and domestic animals. The Animals of...

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The Huntingtons wanted to really preserve the complexity of Brookgreen, what they saw here in the early 1930s, for their generation and for future generations. That continues to be the mission. They...