by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Mar 28, 2022 | Blog, Community Engagement, Conservation, Education, Historic Preservation, Outreach, Planning, Whole Place Preservation
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...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Mar 24, 2022 | Author, Blog, Books, Community Engagement, Drayton Hall Stories
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...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Mar 23, 2022 | Blog, Community Engagement, Conservation, Whole Place Preservation
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...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Mar 16, 2022 | Blog, Community Engagement, Conservation, Outreach, Planning, Whole Place Preservation
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....
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Dec 18, 2021 | Blog, Community Engagement, Conservation, Planning
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...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Dec 5, 2021 | Blog, Community Engagement, Conservation, Planning
Note the gas pumps and amount of impervious surface in the images above. The top right photo is a new Parker’s Kitchen in Monck’s Corner, SC. It’s just not one year we are concerned about, but decades of effects. Isn’t a convenience store...
McDaniel Consulting LLC is a strategy firm that helps organizations use history to build bridges within itself and its broader constituents. 