The Living History Group
Craig Hadley - Owner and Managing Director:
Craig has been a professional historian & archaeologist for more than 20 years. During that time he has worked for the National Trust for Historic Preservation and acted as a consultant for the History Channel. He also creates exhibits and educational programming for museums and historic sites. These include The Tennessee Civil War Museum and The Creative Discovery Museum (located in Chattanooga, Tennessee). Craig has also consulted with numerous historic sites regarding both their educational programming and historic preservation issues. He has worked on various documentaries and motion pictures as either a producer or historical technical consultant. He has worked as an assistant professor of history for a private university in Tennessee teaching everything from the Civil War to World War II. He has created numerous interactive educational programs for both schools and historic sites as well as worked as a consultant for the South Carolina Department of Education, running summer workshops for teachers on how to teach history to students in an exciting and engaging way. He has worked as a professional field director of archaeology performing cultural resource management work across the United States. He has also worked as a consultant for the National Park Service and conducted numerous “staff rides,” teaching military tactics from the American Revolution to the Civil War for the United States Army.
Craig’s areas of specialty include educational programming for teachers and children; museum exhibit design; documentary film making; grant writing; historic preservation; African-American slave history; and American military history from the American Revolution through World War II.
Contact Craig at: craighadley@aol.com
David Fournier - Director of New Media:
David has a BA degree in Interactive Media and Modern Languages. He studied at Andrews University, Southern Adventist University and spent a year at a "sister" college in France called Campus Adventiste du Salève.
David has worked as the associate director of Online Learning at a private university in Tennessee where he helped jumpstart the online education program. He worked for a short time in IT. He has worked as a resident film maker at a non profit. He has been working with The Living History Group since its inception. David is currently editing a short documentary about the ongoing recovery efforts taking place on the coast of Texas in the wake of hurricane Rita.
David's specialties are photography, media technology, and cinematography. From portraits, to compcards, landscapes and travel photography, David is in his element behind a camera. He took his first photography class in high school. Film, was a natural progression. In fact David began to explore the idea of telling stories in pictures before he picked up a video camera. You can see David's photography on his website at www.photofurnace.com.
Contact David at: david@photofurnace.com
DJ Tucker – Projects Manager:
DJ has his Masters in History from the College of Charleston and has been a professional educator and historian for more than 18 years. Originally from Canada, DJ began his work in public history and education as a costumed historical interpreter and craftsman at Black Creek Pioneer Village in Ontario, Canada in 1989. Since that time he has worked as a public historian in management positions for historic sites that included the Royal Botanical Gardens; the MacFarland House Historic Site; Boone Hall Plantation and Drayton Hall. He also worked as a graduate fellow at the Avery Research Center for African-American History and Culture. Prior to being hired by The Living History Group in 2005, DJ was working as the director of Old Fort Jackson in Savannah, Georgia. DJ’s specialties include educational programming, exhibit’s design, public history, military history; African-American history, historic preservation and archaeology.
Contact DJ at: Sockdollager@aol.com
Kate Fowler – Research Assistant & Laboratory Technician:
Kate graduated from the College of Charleston in 2007 with a degree in Art History and History. She began volunteering as an archaeological field and lab technician with The Living History Group in October 2007. She impressed the staff so much with her personality, enthusiasm and knowledge that she was hired in January of 2008 as a lab technician and researcher.
Kate is currently working on Magnolia Plantation's "From Slavery to Freedom" project cataloging and sketching archaeological artifacts recovered from excavations around the slave cabins in 2007.