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HLOM's Guest Speaker Series - Lorna Czarnota

Holland Land Office — Feb 20, 2020, 12:11pm

We are welcoming Lorna Czarnota back to the Holland Land Office! If you missed her last year make sure you make this one on your calendar. She will be discussing her book Wicked Niagara. Its sure to be an interesting side of the Niagara Frontier filled with fun discussions. Cost is $3 per person or $2 per museum member.

"This project is made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by GO ART!"

HLOM's Guest Speaker Series - Tim and Deb Smith

Holland Land Office — Feb 20, 2020, 11:46am

This month The Holland Land Office Museum welcomes Tim and Deb Smith to share stories and truths of not just William Morgan but also some other famous Masons from the region.
Cost to attend is $3 per person or $2 per museum member.
"This project is made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by GO ART!"

Virtual HLOM's Guest Speaker Series - Eric Weatherbee

Holland Land Office — Feb 20, 2020, 11:39am

Please join us through Zoom as Eric Weatherbee, also known as the "Humble Bard," reads some of his historically based Short Stories and Poems. The program will be shown over Zoom. Please visit our Facebook page or our website, www.hollandlandoffice.com, for the login details.

Virtual HLOM Guest Speaker Series - Jay Black

Holland Land Office — Feb 20, 2020, 10:45am

We welcome Jay Black to the Holland Land Office Museum ton September 17th at 7 pm to talk about and show some weapons of the Civil War from his own collection. The presentation will be made available virtually. Please visit the museum's Facebook page and website, hollandlandoffice.com, for more details.

HOLM'S Guest Speaker Series - Derrick Maxfield

Holland Land Office — Feb 20, 2020, 10:35am

Derrick Maxfield will be visiting the museum on Thursday Aug. 20th at 7 p.m. to talk about "Hellmira." The Elmira, NY fort that would come to be known as “Hellmira” among its prisoners began as a Union training post called Camp Rathbun. The fort was turned into a prison camp in 1864 with almost no notice. That was just the beginning...

The cost to attend this talk is $3 per person or $2 per museum member.

POSTPONED - HOLM's Guest Speaker Series - Rob Thompson

Holland Land Office — Feb 18, 2020, 11:04am

Please join us Saturday April 18th at 7 pm as we welcome back Rob Thompson to talk about his newest book "Candles in the Rain" coming out in April. Tickets are $3 per person or $2 per museum member.

POSTPONED: Java with Joe "E" at the Holland Land Office Museum

Holland Land Office — Feb 18, 2020, 10:50am

This month we welcome Michael Eula on March 26th at 9 am as he talks about Public Presence and Secret Injustice: Women in Genesee County, 1802 to the Present. This event is free to the public and there will be coffee, tea, hot cocoa, and pastries provided.

HLOM Guest Speaker - Michael L. Hawley talks about his book on Dr. Frances Tumblety, an American suspect in the Jack the Ripper murders

Holland Land Office — Jan 24, 2020, 10:49am

Please join us and Michael L. Hawley as he talks about Dr. Frances Tumbelty who was known mostly for being a Jack the Ripper suspect, lived for a brief period with family in Rochester and is buried in a family plot in Rochester, NY. Tickets are $3 per person or $2 per museum member. To register please email hollandlandoffice@gmail.com, call (585) 343-4727 or stop into the museum.

HLOM Guest Speaker Series - Patrick Weissend

Holland Land Office — Jan 7, 2020, 11:50am

Stop in for the first Guest Speaker of 2020! the Holland Land Office Museum is welcoming Patrick Weissend on Wednesday January 22 at 7 pm. He will be discussing the settlement of Western New York. The cost for attending this discussion is $3 per person or $2 per museum member.

Free Spaghetti Dinner - Pasta for Peace

beth — Nov 9, 2011, 4:17pm

Free Spaghetti Dinner: Pasta for Peace

The second “Pasta for Peace” free spaghetti dinner, will be held on Thursday, Nov. 17, at 6:30 p.m., at the First Presbyterian Church, 300 East Main St., in Batavia. Local author and peace advocate Jim Morasco will be the featured speaker. 90 people attended the first Pasta for Peace in September.

Morasco, who rode his bicycle 400 miles in June to raise $1,400 for local charities, will discuss his personal transformation, his observations about people who experience trauma, and how he has seen first-hand that “Either through circumstance and/or trauma they learned coping skills that reinforced violence as a way to get what they want.”

He says that his own personal transformation was made possible by positive role models and an early sense that there was a higher power, which was clarified through Christian and Seneca experiences. He says that he has “always had a thirst for knowledge – and both formal and informal education has given me a better understanding of the world than just what we are taught as children.”

Morasco has spent most of his career with people who do not know peace in their lives. “When I look at our culture I see this theme of violence over and over again.” However, he says that he knows in his heart that he must not only advocate peace but more importantly be an example to others as well.

Today, he says that his number one priority in life is social justice, “because I believe (injustice) is at the core of most of the world’s problems.”

As he says, “Call it Karma or whatever, but one day I was thinking about how the canal project must have looked like to the Native Americans. I would think it was a "scar" on Mother Earth. Anyway, later on in the day I came across a Pow Wow that was being held and I ventured in. I spent the afternoon talking with new found friends and being spiritually enriched by the singing and dancing that was occurring. It gave me the opportunity to re-connect with people that have been such a big part of my journey. It felt like a little bit of "home".

The event is sponsored by Pax Christi Genesee County. Pax Christi is part of the International and National Catholic Peace Movement, but operates on an interfaith basis locally. Pax Christi hopes that increased local understanding will reduce violence.

Jim Morasco is also the Associate Pastor of First Baptist Church in Batavia and a counselor for the local alcohol and substance abuse agency, GCASA.

The spaghetti dinner is free. Reservation calls to Joyce: 585-757-2218 or Trudy: 585-599-3302, will be much appreciated. Free will donations will be accepted gratefully.