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...
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...
A good day. A project I’ve been working on for some time received front page coverage in the Charleston Post & Courier. There’s much more to be done, but public recognition like this lifts the spirits, and hopefully will make a difference to the good —...
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...
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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.