by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | May 4, 2024 | Blog, 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 | 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 | Dec 18, 2021 | Blog, Community Engagement, Conservation, Planning
The Ashley River, just upstream from Bacon’s Bridge. Rosebrock Park is on the left. Connecting two parks on diagonally opposite sides of a river? Simple, right? Just build a bridge. But the river is scenic. The four-lane road is busy with traffic, and...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Nov 9, 2021 | Blog, Community Engagement, Conservation, Planning, Whole Place Preservation
As chairman of the Dorchester Trust Foundation, which owns Rosebrock Park as a nature-based park leased to the county, we are charged with protecting it and its nearby resources. Its health is now threatened by an in-and-out gas station directly across the road...
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...
McDaniel Consulting LLC is a strategy firm that helps organizations use history to build bridges within itself and its broader constituents. 