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Join George McDaniel PhD, author of Drayton Hall: A Place and its People on Thursday, August 18, 2022 at 5:00 pm for an introduction and discussion on his new book.
This is a Donate What You Can Event presented by Drayton Hall Preservation Trust. If you are not able to watch at the broadcast time, register as usual on the Eventbrite event page and the link to watch the event at your leisure will be posted on the event page the following day. We look forward to seeing you virtually!
About the book:
A new portrayal of this 18th-century icon among America’s historic sites, Drayton Hall Stories: A Place and Its People is the first book in the nation to focus on a site’s recent history using interviews with descendants (both White and Black), board members, staff, donors, architects, historians, preservationists, tourism leaders, and more. Like different pieces of a mosaic, each of the 50+ interviews combines with others to create an engaging picture of this one place, revealing major decisions and practices in preservation and site stewardship and pioneering efforts to transform a Southern plantation into a site for education and racial understanding. Readers will come to see Drayton Hall’s people not as stereotypes, but as the real people they were—and are. Maps, photographs, lines of descent, interview questions, a how-to guide, and related website, all provide blueprints for readers who wish to undertake similar place-based endeavors to enhance understanding and community in today’s world.
About the author:
An Atlanta native, George W. McDaniel served for more than 25 years as the Executive Director of Drayton Hall and upon retirement, is now the President of McDaniel Consulting, LLC, a strategy firm for museums. He earned a BA from Sewanee, a MAT (history) from Brown University, and PhD (history) from Duke. Interspersed through those years were travels to many places—Europe, Africa, Vietnam—where he saw peace and war and learned by experience about cultural differences and commonalities. Building on the foundation already established, he led Drayton Hall to become all the more renowned for its pioneering work in education, preservation, site interpretation, heritage tourism, and environmental conservation, earning awards at local, state, and national levels. A resident of Summerville, he is married to Mary Sue Nunn McDaniel and is the father of two sons, George and James and grandfather of Allen Stuart McDaniel.
This is a Donate What You Can Webinar broadcast by Zoom at 5:00 pm on Thursday, August 18, 2022. If you are not able to view this webinar at broadcast time just register as usual on the link below and a link to view the webinar will be available on the event page the following day.
(843) 769-2600
info@draytonhall.org
3380 Ashley River Road
Charleston, SC 29414
Drayton Hall's main house and landscape are open to the public daily from 9 am to 5:00pm* (gate closes at 3:30 pm). The gate will accept no cash transactions.
