Click here to read my A’s to the Q’s asked by the National Trust’s Priya Chhaya for the Preservation Forum. ABOUT THE AUTHOR George W. McDaniel, Ph.D., is President of McDaniel Consulting, LLC, a strategy firm that helps organizations use history...
What Do Descendants Think of How My Book Portrayed Their Family Place, Drayton Hall? “We appreciate the work and thought devoted to the preservation of Drayton Hall and hope that our contributions to this book’s stories will enhance the understanding of our history...
Last – and I mean last — edits by art designer and me will be done in the next few days. I’m glad I chose Evening Post Books. Michael Nolan, executive editor, Elizabeth Hollerith, managing editor, John Burbage, co-founder, and Gill Guerry, art designer,...
Above: Looking closely and getting it right. Richard (“Moby”) Marks, contractor; Edward Chappell, architectural historian, taking notes; and Craig Bennett, preservation engineer. Seeing the Familiar Afresh: That’s fun, isn’t it? Sparks your mind....
The Ashley River, just upstream from Bacon’s Bridge. Rosebrock Park is on the left. Connecting two parks on diagonally opposite sides of a river? Simple, right? Just build a bridge. But the river is scenic. The four-lane road is busy with traffic, and...
McDaniel Consulting LLC is a strategy firm that helps organizations use history to build bridges within itself and its broader constituents.
"Drayton Hall Stories" is now a 4X Award Winner with the SE Museum Conference's James R. Short Award, the Governor's Award in the Humanities, the SC Preservation Honor Award & the Alexander S. Salley Lifetime Achievement Award.