by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | May 4, 2024 | Blog, Family & Friends, Uncategorized
ABOUT THE AUTHOR George W. McDaniel, PhD, is the President of McDaniel Consulting, LLC, a strategy firm that helps organizations use history to build bridges within itself and to its broader constituents. For 25 years, he served as the Executive Director...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | May 9, 2023 | Author, Blog, Books, Drayton Hall Stories, Family & Friends, Friends, Historic Preservation, Outreach
Esther Beaumont, friend and donor, explains her point of view in my book, Drayton Hall Stories: A Place and Its People. What led you to donate to Drayton Hall and to name a building the George W. McDaniel Education Center? “I believe in giving money when...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Feb 3, 2023 | African American History, Blog, Books, Drayton Hall Stories, Family
Excerpt from my book “Drayton Hall Stories: A Place and Its People”: When you came by her house, the first thing she wanted to know, “You want something to eat?” I’d ask her, “Why do you give all the biscuits away?” She’d say “Honey, all you gonna do is...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Nov 12, 2021 | Blog, Community Engagement, Conservation, Planning
Charleston Post and Courier – front page story By Jerrel Floyd, Nov 11, 2021 George McDaniel, chairman of the Dorchester Trust Foundation, has worked to raise awareness around protecting the Ashley River. He questions why the area needs a gas station...
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...