Kathryn Hedgepath-Remembering Myrtle Beach's German POWs

Kathryn Hedgepath-Remembering Myrtle Beach's German POWs (1944-1946)

The Horry County Museum presents a program on the German Prisoner of War Camp in Myrtle Beach. German POWs were brought to Myrtle Beach during WWII to supplement the work force in the timber industry, on farms and at the town's Army Air Corps airfield. Myrtle Beach History Tours Creator and Narrator, Kathryn Cox Hedgepath, will share what it was like for them here from 1944–1946.

Myrtle Beach native, Kathryn Cox Hedgepath, is the creator and narrator of the Myrtle Beach History Trolley and Step-On Tours. She has traveled to forty countries on six continents and uses her experience to convey our local history through a world lens. Kathryn returned home from NYC in 2002 to marry her beloved husband, Jenks, after a career in television and publishing (and even worked in Space Shuttle Operations at NASA Headquarters in DC for a semester before starting graduate school at Georgetown University). Her first career job was as Personal Assistant to television icon and wildlife expert, Jim Fowler, of Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom fame. Her dad, Myrtle Beach's first veterinarian, arranged the job interview when Jim Fowler spoke at a veterinary conference in Myrtle Beach. She is proud to be able to trace her family history in Horry County back to the Pre-Revolutionary War years, and enjoys sharing our local history with visitors, newcomers, and locals.

The program is free to the public and will be held in the Museum's McCown Auditorium. For more information, call 843-915-5320 or email hcg.museum@horrycountysc.gov.