CHIEF LOGAN STATE PARK - Museum in the Park began the new year of 2008 with a new site manager, Elizabeth Williams. Williams' duties at the museum include the responsibility of daily operations, management and supervision. She helps to plan exhibits and events for the museum and manages all in-house and Outreach educational projects.

Williams grew up in an area that is well known for historic preservation of buildings and artifacts.

"I grew up along the Coast of South Carolina, what other people call the other Charleston," Williams said. "When I was growing up, this Charleston was the 'other' Charleston for me."

When she began high school, Williams said her family moved to Atlanta where she finished school. She has also spent time in London, England, Florida and Savannah, Ga., where she finished graduate school, majoring in Historic Preservation. Williams said she kind of backed into historic preservation as a career choice instead of planning on it.

"I had a family member who left me enough money to do something with," Williams said. "I always wanted to go back to school to study something a little bit different