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...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Aug 10, 2021 | African American History, Blog, Books, Drayton Hall Stories, Family
. Annie Brown Meyers (above left being interviewed by the author) was a descendant of the Bowens family and niece of Richmond Bowens. Her mother, Lucille Bowens, grew up at Drayton Hall and probably named her daughter after her mother, Anna Bowens. She instilled in...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Jul 22, 2021 | Blog, Books, Drayton Hall Stories, Historic Preservation, Professionals
Richard “Moby” Marks, preservation contractor (shown above). For decades, he has worked on the preservation and repair of Drayton Hall. Imagining the house as a “time machine,” he explains why Drayton Hall was, and is still, unique and enables us...
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