Lunchbox Learning is a monthly lecture series featuring local, state, and national history. Each program takes place on the third Wednesday of each month at noon.
Wednesday, December 17 at Noon
Curating “The Night Before Christmas”
Presented by Sue Reich
Sue Reich is an award-winning quilter, AQS quilt appraiser, quilt author, historian, and lecturer. She president of the Quilts of Valor Foundation and the curator of Sue Reich’s The Quilter’s Night Before Christmas. Based on the classic holiday poem, this exhibition features 29 quilts created by quilters around the country. Mrs. Reich challenged her friends and fellow quilters to take one stanza from the poem and create holiday magic. Learn more about her experience curating this collection and her career in quilting at Lunchbox Learning on December 17, 2025.
This is a hybrid program. Tickets are available for in-person viewing, or virtual.
Lunchbox Learning is free for UHM Members and included with general admission for all other guests.
Historic Grave Sites: Greenville's Textile Mill Cemeteries
January 21, 2026
Join us on Wednesday, January 21, as guest speaker Gregory McKee shares the history of historic cemeteries at textile mills in the Upcountry and how we can better preserve them.
The Super Highway in Upstate South Carolina
February 18, 2026
Join us on Wednesday, February 18th, as William “Lynn” Duncan and Scott Winthrow examine the history of U.S. Highway 29 and its impact on the Upstate of South Carolina.




