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 15, 2018 | Blog, Community Engagement, Conservation, Outreach, Whole Place Preservation
Audubon South Carolina & The Coastal Conservation League – December 2018 Birds of a feather flocked together at a wonderful program sponsored by Audubon South Carolina and the Coastal Conservation League as Sharon Richardson, executive...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Oct 28, 2018 | Blog, Historic Preservation, Publication, Whole Place Preservation
The Past, Present, and Future of Historic Preservation at George Washington’s Mount Vernon Edited by Carol Borchert Cadou This is an important book on historic preservation that I am very proud to have contributed to with my essay...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Jul 2, 2018 | African American History, Blog, Community Engagement, Conservation, Historic Preservation, Interpretation, Operations, Outreach, Planning, Whole Place Preservation
How to Manage Major Change in a Historic Site? How does a historical plantation that has become a 3400-acre forested nature sanctuary metamorphose into a historic site and do so with only modest changes to the landscape? What kinds of new visitor facilities and...
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