. Max A. van Balgooy, Assistant Professor in the Museum Studies Program at George Washington University, teaches museum management, historical interpretation, and community engagement. A frequent author, he is president of Engaging Places, a strategy firm for museums...
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...
Polarity Thinking Sparks New Insights SC Audubon Society Heritage Meeting November 15, 2017 Back in August 2017, at the invitation of Sharon Richardson, the SC executive director of Audubon South Carolina (ASC), I visited Silver Bluff plantation, now a South...
Paradox and the Interpretation of Slavery at Southern Historical Plantation Sites by George W. McDaniel, Ph.D SHEAR Conference, July 30, 2013 From the Drayton Hall Preservation Trust Blog – Posted August 2013 Each year, millions of...
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"Drayton Hall Stories" is now a 4X Award Winner with the SE Museum Conference's James R. Short Award, the Governor's Award in the Humanities, the SC Preservation Honor Award & the Alexander S. Salley Lifetime Achievement Award.