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SC Public Radio – Walter Edgar’s Journal – First Broadcast July 29th at Noon
July 29, 2022 @ 12:00 pm
Walter Edgar’s Journal delves into the arts, culture, history of South Carolina and the American South. In 2021, Walter Edgar’s Journal celebrated 21 years on South Carolina Public Radio.
On July 29th, Dr. Edgar will interview George McDaniel, acclaimed author of the recently released book “Drayton Hall Stories: A Place and Its People”.
Hailed as the first book in the nation to focus on a historic place’s recent history, it features interviews with descendants (both White and Black), board members, staff, donors, architects, historians, preservationists, tourism leaders, and more. The result is a new portrayal of this 18th-century icon among America’s historic sites.
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.
Maps, photographs, lines of descent, interview questions, a how-to guide, and related website, all provide blueprints for readers who wish to undertake similar endeavors to build community in today’s world.
Author George W. McDaniel, PhD, is the President of McDaniel Consulting, LLC, a strategy firm that helps organizations and museums build bridges to its broader constituents. For 26 years, he served as the Executive Director of Drayton Hall, a historic site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation in Charleston, South Carolina. A native of Atlanta, he earned a BA from Sewanee, a MAT (history) from Brown University, and PhD (history) from Duke. Interspersed through those years were travels to many places — Europe, Africa, Vietnam — where he saw peace and war and learned by experience about cultural differences and commonalities. Beginning with the Smithsonian Institution, he has built a career in education and history museums, earning awards at local, state, and national levels. A nationally respected museum professional and author, he helps organizations to use history, place, and culture to enhance community
The program will repeat on SC Public Radio News and Music Stations on Saturday at 7:00am and on News and Talk stations on Sunday at 4:00pm.
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The episode will also be published as a podcast on Apple and Spotify.