First on Facebook – May 2, 2021 Click on the blue Facebook logo in the upper right corner above to read all the comments and enlarge the photos, or read the transcript below. In 2012, Drayton Hall sponsored a dedication ceremony for its African...
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...
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...
Oral Histories Help Make The Freedom House a Home One more way that I am connected to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), an essential part of the “nation’s attic” that has met with...
Preserve the Past, Educate for the Future: The Chesapeake Heartland Project Washington College, Starr Center, Chestertown, MD – February 2019 I spent two splendid days at Washington College, Chestertown, MD, for a Chesapeake Heartland...
The National Advisory Council of Olana – January 2019 I serve on the National Advisory Council of Olana, the remarkable house and landscape designed by American painter Frederic Church, home to him and his family, and now a historic...
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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.