How to Manage Major Change in a Historic Site? How does a historical plantation that has become a 3400-acre forested nature sanctuary metamorphose into a historic site and do so with only modest changes to the landscape? What kinds of new visitor facilities and...
Polarity Thinking Sparks New Insights SC Audubon Society Heritage Meeting November 15, 2017 Back in August 2017, at the invitation of Sharon Richardson, the SC executive director of Audubon South Carolina (ASC), I visited Silver Bluff plantation, now a South...
A New Vision for Silver Bluff? August 3, 2017 In early August, I went to Silver Bluff plantation, now a South Carolina Audubon Society sanctuary, and then to Redcliff Plantation, now a state historic site. Both were owned before and after the Civil War by...
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