Main Street Reads – Meet The Author – June 26 at 3:30pm

In person with author George W. McDaniel and his groundbreaking new book, Drayton Hall Stories: A Place and Its People.

This is the first book in the nation to focus on a site’s recent history using interviews with descendants (both White and Black), board members, staff, donors, architects, historians, educators, preservationists, tourism leaders, and more.

Like different pieces of a mosaic, each interview combines with others to create an engaging picture of this one place, revealing never-before-shared family moments, major decisions in preservation and site stewardship, and pioneering efforts to transform a Southern plantation into a site for racial conciliation. Readers will come to see Drayton Hall’s people not as stereotypes, but as the real people they were — and are.