by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Jan 25, 2019 | Blog, Board Development, Community Engagement, Conservation, Education, Governance, Historic Preservation, Interpretation, Operations, Outreach, Planning, Whole Place Preservation
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...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Jan 24, 2019 | Blog, Board Development, Community Engagement, Historic Preservation, Interpretation, Outreach, Planning, Publication, Whole Place Preservation
by George W. McDaniel for The Southern Edge Magazine, Winter 2018 One day in the mid-1990s, I drove from my home in Summerville to Bacon’s Bridge over the Ashley River and spent several hours enjoying the tranquil beauty and deep sense of history the place...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Jan 20, 2019 | Blog, Community Engagement, Conservation, Education, Historic Preservation, Interpretation, Outreach, Public Speaking, Whole Place Preservation
Promoting The Historical Resources of Audubon SC’s Silver Bluff – January 2019 As a red-tailed hawk soars above a place, what would it see if it could travel through time as well as space? That’s the question I asked at the Beech Island...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Dec 10, 2018 | Blog, Interpretation
Robert E. Lee Barker With the recent death of Bob Barker, Charleston has lost a wonderful raconteur and one of its most memorable proponents of historic preservation. Though born and reared on Long Island, he grew up with a strong propensity for the South...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Dec 8, 2018 | Blog, Community Engagement, Historic Preservation, Interpretation, Outreach, Planning
Audubon’s Silver Bluff Sanctuary How do you bring history forward and connect? That’s a hard question, but one that Silver Bluff Audubon Center & Sanctuary is answering by hiring two skilled videographers, Elizabeth Brown and Katherine Kelly, to...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Nov 9, 2018 | Blog, Interpretation, Publication
A Guide for Community Leaders Edited by David B. Allison Besides seeing my essay on Confederate monuments in print at the 2018 American Association for State & Local History (AASLH) conference, one of my great pleasures was meeting historian David Allison,...