Apr 30, 2012 | Joseph McGill, LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
I met Jenifer Eggleston ten years ago when I started working for the National Trust for Historic Preservation. While she worked in the Washington, DC office, she came to Charleston, SC to fulfill a requirement of her duties. Right after Hurricane Katrina Jenifer was...
Apr 23, 2012 | LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
By Robin Foster I just made it home from my first research trip as Co-Director of Lowcountry Africana. I almost willingly succumbed to sleep, but after retiring, my mind kept wandering through the experiences over this past week. I left home with the purpose of...
Apr 13, 2012 | Joseph McGill, LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
There have been times in this journey when it was wise to schedule slave dwelling stays back to back. My trips to Alabama, Missouri, and Texas are perfect examples of that. There has been one trip in South Carolina where that also applied; that was my stays at...
Apr 10, 2012 | Joseph McGill, LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
Bush-Holley House “I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.” –Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The Bush-Holley Historic Site in...
