by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Mar 1, 2023 | Blog, Community Engagement, Conservation, Education, Historic Preservation, Outreach, Planning, Whole Place Preservation
See the aerial. Parker’s Kitchen, the convenience store chain, wants to put a store at Cook’s Crossroads, not far from the Ashley River, with a bunch of gas pumps. Several years ago, Dorchester Co. Council passed a master plan for that district, identifying it...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Mar 23, 2022 | Blog, Community Engagement, Conservation, Whole Place Preservation
My Letter-to-the-Editor, Charleston’s Post and Courier, March 23: Why save land from development? Growing up in Atlanta, I saw development as a proud positive, believing it would be managed, but came to learn that without individuals and...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Jan 24, 2019 | Blog, Board Development, Community Engagement, Historic Preservation, Interpretation, Outreach, Planning, Publication, Whole Place Preservation
by George W. McDaniel for The Southern Edge Magazine, Winter 2018 One day in the mid-1990s, I drove from my home in Summerville to Bacon’s Bridge over the Ashley River and spent several hours enjoying the tranquil beauty and deep sense of history the place...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Dec 17, 2018 | Blog, Community Engagement, Outreach, Planning
A good day. A project I’ve been working on for some time received front page coverage in the Charleston Post & Courier. There’s much more to be done, but public recognition like this lifts the spirits, and hopefully will make a difference to the good —...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Apr 19, 2018 | Blog, Community Engagement, Outreach, Planning
Conservation, Government and Business Leaders Signal Progress for Cooks Crossroads April 2018 How do you manage change that will be coming to an area rich in history and natural resources? To do so, I and others worked to bring on Rob Robinson of Urban...
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