Balancing Nature and History
How to Manage Major Change in a Historic Site? How does a historical plantation that has become a 3400-acre forested nature sanctuary metamorphose into a historic site and do so with only modest changes to the landscape? What kinds of new visitor facilities and...
Memories, Monuments & Memorials
Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina (JHSSC) Spring 2018 Meeting – Charleston, SC, April 28-29th Monuments. memorials, and historical memory have been much in the news over the last year. In Charlottesville in August 2017, white supremacists...
Black History Month – Educating for the Future
Montgomery County Council Commemorates Black History Month Rockville, Maryland – February 2018 On February 27, 2018, the Montgomery County Council commemorated Black History Month with the theme “Preserving the Past and Educating for the Future.” ...
New Cookbook Keeps African American Foodways Alive
Heritage Foodways in Culture, Traditions & History Historical Excerpts by Dr. George W. McDaniel Information taken from the Heritage Montgomery Website: “Inspired by the stories of our ‘Community Cornerstones: African American Communities...
Making The Most of Historical Resources
Polarity Thinking Sparks New Insights SC Audubon Society Heritage Meeting November 15, 2017 Back in August 2017, at the invitation of Sharon Richardson, the SC executive director of Audubon South Carolina (ASC), I visited Silver Bluff plantation, now a South...About Us
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