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 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...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Sep 10, 2021 | Blog, Books, Drayton Hall Stories, Education, Historic Preservation, Interpretation, Professionals
Matthew Webster was director of the preservation department of Drayton Hall and now serves as Executive Director, Grainger Department of Architectural Preservation and Research at Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. At Drayton Hall, he discovered architectural...
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