Aiken County Historical Museum Lecture
Partnerships Between Historical & Environmental Organizations February 2019 Aiken, SC, is a lovely place with friendly people. I’m on contract with Audubon South Carolina and gave a presentation last Tuesday about partnerships between...
Olana – Frederic Church’s Masterpiece
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...
Standing at the Crossroads
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...
Beech Island Historical Society Lecture
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...
Christmas Eve – 49 Years Ago
This holiday season the wars in Syria and Afghanistan are much in the news, yet to us at home, war seems a long way off. In many ways it is, yet for veterans, its memories still live close by. This Christmas Eve is a case in point. Forty nine years ago, I was...About Us
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