The deadline for participating in an art exhibition or writing project in celebration of National Preservation Month (May) is April 16.
Preservation Month is held each May to promote historic places for the purpose of instilling national and community pride; promoting heritage tourish; and showing the social and economic benefits of historic preservation.
This year, Main Street Manning - a department of the City - and the Clarendon County Historical Society Museum have partnered to recognize the bigest preservation project in Manning and Clarendon County - the renovation of the Clarendon County Courthouse.
There is a Writing Project for students or an Art Exhibition for all ages.
Students can write in any format: poem, essay or short story. Some prompts to help students with the writing project follow:
For younger grades: What do judges do? What happens at the courthouse?
For older grades: What is preservation? What's a memory you have of the courthouse?
For the art exhibition, artists of all ages are invited to participate by depicting the courthouse in a medium of your choosing and framing it.
Submitted entries will be used during Preservation Month displays and activities.
For more information, call Carrie Trebil at City Hall at (803) 435-8477.
