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...
Birds Of A Feather
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...
Stewards of Memory
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...
Balancing Nature and History
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...About Us
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