Guest Speaker Series – Past Events Videos

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Sponsored in part by Bontrager Real Estate & Auction Service
Thank you to Paul Figlow of Figlow Productions for recording our presentations.

Guest Speaker Series: Michael McBride, “John Joseph ‘Exile’ McBride”
Check out our latest Guest Speaker, Michael McBride, as he shares the incredible life of his great uncle John Joseph “Exile” McBride.
HLOM Guest Speaker Series: Michael McBride, “John Joseph ‘Exile’ Mcbride” (youtube.com)

Guest Speaker Series: Rev. Jeremai Williams, “Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church of Batavia”
Check out our latest Guest Speaker, Rev. Jeremai Williams, as he shares the history and importance of the African American church.
HLOM Guest Speaker Series: Rev. Jeremai Williams, “Batavia Mt Zion Missionary Baptist Church” (youtube.com)

Guest Speaker Series: Rick Falkowski, “The Spirit of Buffalo Women”
Check out our latest Guest Speaker, Rick Falkowski, as he shares the amazing lives of prominent women who called Western New York home.
HLOM Guest Speaker Series: Rick Falkowski, “The Spirit of Buffalo Women” (youtube.com)

Guest Speaker Series: Rob Thompson, “The Linden Murders, Sullivan Expedition, Cold Case of Ann Rippel”
Check out our latest Guest Speaker, Rob Thompson, as he shares various local topics from his published works.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAdO3SpaDeE

Guest Speaker Series: Steven Huff, “Resting Among Us: Authors’ Gravesites in Upstate New York”
Check out our latest Guest Speaker, Steven Huff, as he shares the the lives and final resting places of famous and lesser known authors of the Upstate region.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVlIyg_Z8Gk

Guest Speaker Series- Chris Mackowski, “Grant’s Last Battle”
Check out our latest Guest Speaker, Chris Mackowski, as he shares the incredible story behind Ulysses S. Grant writing of his memoirs at the end of his life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y45zxdf5uFY&t=82s

Guest Speaker Series- Amy Truesdell, “The Civil War Letters of Rollin Truesdell”
Check out our latest Guest Speaker, Amy Truesdell, as she shares the life and wartime career of her great-great grandfather Rollin Truesdell, while he served in Union Army during the Civil War.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21VIrW8ilcc

Guest Speaker Series- Joseph Van Remmen, “How Buffalo Got Its Name”
Check out our latest Guest Speaker, Joseph Van Remmen, as he shares his theory on how the City of Buffalo got its name, and how his theory differs with those that have been previously laid out in history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHsCN0afvrk&t=34s

Guest Speaker Series- Derek Maxfield, “Victorian Deathways”
Check out our latest Guest Speaker, Derek Maxfield, as he shares how Antebellum Victorian era Americans dealt and celebrated death.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA572OypUN8&t=232s

Guest Speaker Series- Stephen Tuloweicki, “The Letchworth State Park Atlas: A Fresh Look at America’s Favorite State Park”
Check out our latest Guest Speaker, Stephen Tuloweicki, as he shares through historical, geopraphical, and topographical maps the history and changes of Letchworth State Park throughout its history.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0ANh4uYacY

Guest Speaker Series- Julianna Woite, “WNY & the Gilded Age”
Check out our latest Guest Speaker, Julianna Woite, as she details the prosperity and changes in Western New York during the Gilded Age.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g7B3zotYuE

Guest Speaker Series- Ed Brodbeck, “Ulysses S. Grant”
Check out our latest Guest Speaker, Ed Brodbeck, as he portrays General Ulysses S. Grant during the last two years of the Civil War.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1FmM-b_HFI

Guest Speaker Series- David Kinney, “History of Horseshoe Lake”
Check out our latest Guest Speaker, David Kinney, as he shares the history of the area of Genesee County known as Horseshoe Lake, from its earliest settlement to today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2_rr3VmCRU

Guest Speaker Series- Derrick Pratt, Erie Canal Museum, “Buffalo v. Black Rock: The Western Terminus”
Check out our latest Guest Speaker, Derrick Pratt of the Erie Canal Museum, as he shares the competition that arose between the villages of Buffalo and Black Rock, as to which would be the western termius of the Erie Canal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOkp4BG37xU

Guest Speaker Series- Rick Falkowski “Historic & Influential People of Buffalo & WNY in Early 1800s”
Check out our latest Guest Speaker, Rick Falkowski, as he shares the amazing lives of those who were pivotal to the development and growth of our area.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7EsTFh7Qzw

Guest Speaker Series- Derek Maxfield “Sherman: Man or Monster”
Check out our latest Guest Speaker, Derek Maxfield, as he shares the extraordinary life of General William Tecumseh Sherman. Maxfield is the author of the new book, Man of Fire: William Tecumseh Sherman in the Civil War.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sic1tSUkBZY

Guest Speaker Series- Holly Watson “Linwood Gardens”
Check out our latest Guest Speaker, Holly Watson, as she shares the history of the beautiful Linwood Gardens, and of her ancestors who built and maintained the property. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lI9PS3SxzM