by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Feb 27, 2018 | Blog, Community Engagement, Historic Preservation, Interpretation, Outreach, Planning
How will future historians label the time we now live in? After the Pulse Nightclub shootings in June of 2016, I reached out to Pam Schwartz, chief curator at the Orange County Regional History Center in Orlando, FL, who I knew would be spearheading the...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Feb 26, 2018 | Blog, Community Engagement, Historic Preservation, Interpretation, Outreach, Planning, Public Speaking
Annual Conference February 16, 2018 Following a series of tragic events happening across our nation, and with hopes of helping organizations across South Carolina to be better prepared for future emergencies, Palmetto Archives, Libraries & Museums Council...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Dec 10, 2017 | Blog, Community Engagement, Historic Preservation, Outreach, Planning, Whole Place Preservation
Community Celebrates New Ashley River Boat Access Site December 2, 2017 Conservationists, preservationists, and the larger community had good reason to celebrate as they gathered along the banks of the Ashley River for the ribbon cutting at the new Ashley...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Nov 30, 2017 | African American History, Blog, Community Engagement, Governance, Historic Preservation, Interpretation, Operations, Outreach, Planning, Public Speaking, Whole Place Preservation
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...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Nov 19, 2017 | Blog, Historic Preservation, Operations, Planning
Inspired Giving: Drayton Hall Donor Esther Beaumont November 2017 One of the great pleasures of being the Executive Director of Drayton Hall for so many years was getting to know the wonderful donors who have been committed to the stewardship and sustainable...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Nov 17, 2017 | Blog, Historic Preservation, Interpretation
An Ancestral Home Welcomes A Visitor I was asked to speak at the Maryland Historical Society in the fall of 2017 by Louise Hayman, chairman of the board. I was delighted to do so because of my past connection with the area: in 1974, while in graduate...
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