When a School Superintendent Welcomes Your Work
When a Superintendent of a School District Welcomes Your Work with Enthusiasm, How Does It Feel? It feels great. Especially when it’s my book, Drayton Hall Stories: A Place and Its People. Today I met with Joe Pye, superintendent of Dorchester 2...
Letter to the Editor – Charleston Post & Courier
My Letter-to-the-Editor, Charleston's Post and Courier, March 23: Why save land from development? Growing up in Atlanta, I saw development as a proud positive, believing it would be managed, but came to learn that without individuals and...
Vietnam – Memory and Rain on a Tin Roof
It’s raining tonight. Though I don’t have a tin roof, I hear it clearly. When I lived in rural Africa, my house had a tin roof, and at night, the sound of rain made sleep easy. You probably know the feeling. Above is a photo of my friend, Johnny Dalton, who was...
Why Save Land from Development?
Why save land from development? That’s a question people have been asking for years, haven’t they? Growing up in Atlanta, I saw the results of unmanaged growth, and those experiences shaped my view of the Lowcountry when I moved here some 30 years ago....
British Ancestors – Blue Eyes, Dark-Skinned?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR – George W. McDaniel, Ph.D., is President of McDaniel Consulting, LLC, a strategy firm that helps organizations use history to build bridges within itself and to its broader constituents. The company’s tag line, “Building Bridges...
My Favorite Season. And Yours?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR – George W. McDaniel, Ph.D., is President of McDaniel Consulting, LLC, a strategy firm that helps organizations use history to build bridges within itself and to its broader constituents. The company’s tag line, “Building Bridges through...