Jul 4, 2011 | Joseph McGill, LCA Main Blog
Sleeping in a Relocated Slave Dwelling Visitors at Roper Mountain Science Center, Greenville, SC Saturday, June 11, 2011 found me in Greenville, SC to stay at Roper Mountain Science Center in a former slave dwelling that was disassembled from its...
Jun 18, 2011 | Joseph McGill, LCA Main Blog
Slave Dwelling Project Visits Bellamy Mansion Bellamy Mansion, Wilmington, NC Sunday, May 15 found me spending the night at Bellamy Mansion in Wilmington, NC. I arrived there around 4:45 pm which was good because the young lady working there did not have prior...
Jun 6, 2011 | Joseph McGill, LCA Main Blog
Aiken Rhett House, Charleston, SC Saturday, April 30, 2011 found me at the Aiken Rhett House in Charleston, SC to spend the night in a former slave dwelling located there. I went there the day before with my daughter Jocelyn who had spent the night with me...
Jun 1, 2011 | Joseph McGill, LCA Main Blog
Slave Dwelling Project Receives Warm Welcome in Missouri “Before Joseph McGill’s visit during the 3rd week of April, very little recognition of Missouri’s Little Dixie slave cabins could be found beyond my own efforts with my program “Little Cabins.” I...
May 28, 2011 | Joseph McGill, LCA Main Blog
Left to Right: Michael Bedenbaugh, Palmetto Trust for Historic Preservation; Jeremy Thomas, New Owner Laurelwood Plantation; Joseph McGill, Slave Dwelling Project While my last few stays afforded me the opportunities to stay in slave dwellings in the states of...
Apr 13, 2011 | LCA Main Blog
Slave Cabin, Egypt Plantation. Artist: Ted Ellis March 29th through April 2nd found me in the State of Texas to spend nights in former slave dwellings at Egypt Plantation, Egypt, TX and Seward Plantation, Independence, TX and be the keynote speaker...
Mar 25, 2011 | LCA Main Blog
It was not your typical father-daughter outing – there was no dance, no barbeque, no scavenger hunt. Instead, 14 year old Jocelyn McGill joined her father in an overnight stay at Middleton Place Plantation, to experience first-hand her father’s efforts to...
Mar 25, 2011 | LCA Main Blog
It was not your typical father-daughter outing – there was no dance, no barbeque, no scavenger hunt. Instead, 14 year old Jocelyn McGill joined her father in an overnight stay at Middleton Place Plantation, to experience first-hand her father's...
