Join us during the month of March as we celebrate Women’s History Month and the arrival of spring with outdoor tours, demonstrations in the Stableyards, and a special Family Day with games in the garden.  All programs are included in the price of admission.

Mary, Martha, Anna, and Eliza: A Story of Work and Home at Middleton Place                  

Thursdays 10:00 am and 1:00 pm ( approximately 40 mins)

In honor of Women’s History Month, this walking tour discusses the numerous African American women who not only helped to maintain and restore Middleton Place in the 20th century, but who also became some of the first interpreters on the site during the 1970s.  (Included in General Admission)

Mama Hattie Remembers. . .” A Story of African American LifeThrough Stories and Song

Saturdays 11:30 am & 1:30 pm (approximately 30 minutes)

Join Mama Hattie as she recalls her life growing up in the Low Country of South Carolina.  This special presentation includes rich African American traditions of storytelling and music.

Tangled Up In Blue: Indigo Dyeing

March 23 |10:00am -4:00pm

Indigo, a plant that produces a blue dye, was an important part of South Carolina’s 18th-century economy. Indigo dye work was time-consuming – and often smelly! The precise science required for the oxidation that produces the unique blue that only comes from indigo speaks to the brilliance of the women who developed this technology, and the enslaved people who enacted it.

Using a prepared indigo vat, interpreters from the textile shop will be dyeing skeins of wool shorn from the Middleton Place Sheep.  (Included in general admission)