Upcoming Speaker

David Brinkman was born in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina but has spent most of his life in Columbia, SC. He graduated from Irmo High School and the University of South Carolina with a B.S. in Computer and Electrical Engineering. For over 25 years, he has worked as a software engineer for NCR, AT&T, and Intel Corporations.

David never had an interest in history until 1997 when, after losing his father, he began a labor of love to represent and honor his father’s military service in his dad’s WWII reunion group. It was through this that David caught the history bug. In 2005, the discovery of an old bridge abutment in his new backyard on the Broad River started a series of local history projects from Columbia to Charleston.