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 | May 15, 2019 | Blog, Community Engagement, Conservation, Education, Governance, Historic Preservation, Outreach, Planning, Whole Place Preservation
Meeting of the Ashley Scenic River Advisory Council (ASRAC) Watershed Study – May 2019 Who cares about a little water? Maybe a lot of people when it’s a lot of water. That’s why at our meeting of the Ashley Scenic River Advisory Council...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Feb 10, 2019 | Blog, Community Engagement, Conservation, Education, Historic Preservation, Outreach, Public Speaking, Whole Place Preservation
Partnerships Between Historical & Environmental Organizations February 2019 Aiken, SC, is a lovely place with friendly people. I’m on contract with Audubon South Carolina and gave a presentation last Tuesday about partnerships between...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Jan 20, 2019 | Blog, Community Engagement, Conservation, Education, Historic Preservation, Interpretation, Outreach, Public Speaking, Whole Place Preservation
Promoting The Historical Resources of Audubon SC’s Silver Bluff – January 2019 As a red-tailed hawk soars above a place, what would it see if it could travel through time as well as space? That’s the question I asked at the Beech Island...
by gmcdaniel4444@gmail.com | Jul 2, 2018 | African American History, Blog, Community Engagement, Conservation, Historic Preservation, Interpretation, Operations, Outreach, Planning, Whole Place Preservation
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...
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