Guest Speaker Series: Lorna Czarnota, “The Adventures of Aileen McGuire: Hoggee on the Erie Canal”

The Holland Land Office is proud to announce the next presenter in our Guest Speaker Series on Tuesday, August 25th at 7 pm. Lorna Czarnota will be presenting, “The Adventures of Aileen McGuire: Hoggee on the Erie Canal.” The presentation consists of an original monologue based on the history of life of everyday people working on the Erie Canal during its heyday. The event will be held at GO ART! located at 201 E. Main St. in Batavia. Admission is by suggested donation. If you plan to attend, please contact the museum at 585-343-4727 or hollandlandoffice@gmail.com. Thank you to Tompkins Community Bank and the Batavia Rotary Club for sponsoring in part the Guest Speaker Series. “This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrant Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by GO ART!.” “GO ART! acknowledges that the land on which this project takes place is the ancestral territory of the Seneca Nation, one of the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. GO ART! recognizes the historical and ongoing presence of Indigenous peoples in Western New York and honors their enduring relationship to this land.”