Folly Beach leaders on Aug. 9 opened the city’s first public museum, a small, single-exhibit room tucked into the welcome center on Center Street
“It’s important to know your history, and there’s so much history here in Folly Beach,” Folly Beach Mayor Tim Goodwin told the Charleston City Paper. “If you don’t know where you’ve been, you won’t know where you’re going, and you won’t know how you’re going to get there.”
The first of many rotating exhibits is on display now, titled “Surfing on the Edge.” The exhibit explores the origins of surf culture on Folly Beach from the early 1960s to the current charitable organizations that have grown from it over the decades. The museum houses several artifacts and a digital kiosk to view interviews and memories from living legends featured in the exhibit…