Waccamaw Library to screen documentary on purple martins in South Carolina
January 26, 2026
Film Is Part of 2026 SC Hammock Coast Birding Festival
This movie is definitely “for the birds”! As part of the fourth annual SC Hammock Coast Birding Festival, the Waccamaw Library will offer a screening of Purple Haze: A Conservation Film, a documentary about the remarkable plight of purple martins in South Carolina and their annual migration to South America and back.
As we follow one man’s journey chasing America’s favorite backyard bird halfway around the globe and back again, we come to discover that what we do at home affects what we do to the world. The screening will place on Friday, February 6 at 11:30 a..m. and afterwards filmmaker Zach Steinhauser will be available for lively audience Q&A.
The SC Hammock Coast Birding Festival is sponsored by the Georgetown County Chamber of Commerce. The film screening is co-sponsored by the Friends of the Waccamaw Library (FOWL), and is free and open to the public. The library is located at 41 St. Paul Place, Pawleys Island, SC 29585.
