The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America (NSCDA) in the State of North Carolina 125th Annual Meeting – April 25-26, 2019 – Raleigh, NC How do we remedy the declining state of history education in the nation? One way is by building...
Chef Kevin Mitchell Pays Tribute to the African American Cooks of Drayton Hall April 27, 2019 A memorable evening, indeed! Chef Kevin Mitchell paid tribute to the African American cooks of Drayton Hall at a Society of 1738 program, by devising a tasteful menu...
The Lovett School Golden Lions Reunion The night after the 50th reunion of the 10th-grade-class I’d taught, I attended the reunion of all of us alums from The Lovett School, who had graduated 50 years or more ago, named the Golden Lions, after our mascot,...
The Lovett School 50th Reunion of The Class of 1969 I was thrilled to be invited to the 50th reunion of the 10th grade students who I taught a year after graduating from Sewanee. I had not taken one education course, but I had a good education and good...
My Forty-Year-Old Research Finds New Home at the Smithsonian Recently I was at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), which is digitizing my collection of slides, black and white prints, and drawings of houses and...
The Conservation of South Carolina’s Ashley River The Ashley Scenic River Advisory Council Meeting – March 2019 The designation of the Ashley River as a SC State Scenic River by the Dept. of Natural Resources in the late 1990s called into...
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"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.