by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Dec 18, 2021 | Blog, Community Engagement, Conservation, Planning
The Ashley River, just upstream from Bacon’s Bridge. Rosebrock Park is on the left. Connecting two parks on diagonally opposite sides of a river? Simple, right? Just build a bridge. But the river is scenic. The four-lane road is busy with traffic, and...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Dec 5, 2021 | Blog, Community Engagement, Conservation, Planning
Note the gas pumps and amount of impervious surface in the images above. The top right photo is a new Parker’s Kitchen in Monck’s Corner, SC. It’s just not one year we are concerned about, but decades of effects. Isn’t a convenience store...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Nov 12, 2021 | Blog, Community Engagement, Conservation, Planning
Charleston Post and Courier – front page story By Jerrel Floyd, Nov 11, 2021 George McDaniel, chairman of the Dorchester Trust Foundation, has worked to raise awareness around protecting the Ashley River. He questions why the area needs a gas station...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Nov 9, 2021 | Blog, Community Engagement, Conservation, Planning, Whole Place Preservation
As chairman of the Dorchester Trust Foundation, which owns Rosebrock Park as a nature-based park leased to the county, we are charged with protecting it and its nearby resources. Its health is now threatened by an in-and-out gas station directly across the road...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Oct 27, 2021 | Author, Blog, Books, Drayton Hall Stories, Professionals
. The Secretary, that’s who. He just happens to be a friend of mine — long before he (Lonnie Bunch) was chosen to be Secretary. Perhaps 40 years ago, he and I and another historian Clem Price just happened to be at the same lunch table at some conference and...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Sep 29, 2021 | Blog, Books, Drayton Hall Stories, Professionals
.History abounds around us if we but look, right? In South Carolina we have the SC National Heritage Corridor along whose route there is no finer site than Drayton Hall. Why is it so important? Where is it headed? In the fall 2021 issue of Southern Edge magazine,...
McDaniel Consulting LLC is a strategy firm that helps organizations use history to build bridges within itself and its broader constituents. 