When a School Superintendent Welcomes Your Work
When a Superintendent of a School District Welcomes Your Work with Enthusiasm, How Does It Feel? It feels great. Especially when it’s my book, Drayton Hall Stories: A Place and Its People. Today I met with Joe Pye, superintendent of Dorchester 2...
A Life Well Lived
Last week Elizabeth “Liz” Hunt Alston, a friend, tripped on a sidewalk in Charleston, hit her head, went to the hospital, was fine for a few days, and suddenly died of a brain hemorrhage. Here’s my letter-to-the-editor in the Post and Courier, Feb. 24....
Drayton Hall Stories: Liz Alston, Youth
When we get to know people when they’re older, it’s easy to overlook the fact they were once young. Their values then shaped their values now. Realizing this, I asked Liz questions about her youth, the values she learned, and her friendship with Cong. James Clyburn,...
The Preservation Forum Blog Interview
Click here to read my A’s to the Q’s asked by the National Trust’s Priya Chhaya for the Preservation Forum. ABOUT THE AUTHOR George W. McDaniel, Ph.D., is President of McDaniel Consulting, LLC, a strategy firm that helps organizations use history...
What Do Descendants Think?
What Do Descendants Think of How My Book Portrayed Their Family Place, Drayton Hall? “We appreciate the work and thought devoted to the preservation of Drayton Hall and hope that our contributions to this book’s stories will enhance the understanding of our history...About Us
McDaniel Consulting LLC is a strategy firm that helps organizations use history to build bridges within itself and its broader constituents.