by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Feb 3, 2022 | African American History, Author, Blog, Books, Drayton Hall Stories, Publication
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...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Jan 29, 2022 | Author, Blog, Books, Drayton Hall Stories, Publication
Last – and I mean last — edits by art designer and me will be done in the next few days. I’m glad I chose Evening Post Books. Michael Nolan, executive editor, Elizabeth Hollerith, managing editor, John Burbage, co-founder, and Gill Guerry, art designer,...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Jan 13, 2022 | Blog, Books, Drayton Hall Stories, Historic Preservation, Professionals, Publication
Above: Looking closely and getting it right. Richard (“Moby”) Marks, contractor; Edward Chappell, architectural historian, taking notes; and Craig Bennett, preservation engineer. Seeing the Familiar Afresh: That’s fun, isn’t it? Sparks your mind....
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,...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Sep 26, 2021 | Blog, Books, Drayton Hall Stories, Historic Preservation, Professionals
. What do you see? Floorboards? Maybe old ones at that? And what’s that rectangular piece joining two of them, you may ask? They are long floorboards, installed at Drayton Hall c. 1750. For my forthcoming book, “Drayton Hall Stories,” I ask...
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