Guest Speaker Series: Derrick Pratt, “The Beer-ie Canal Was A-Risin’: Brewing on the Erie Canal
Wednesday, October 21, 2026 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
The Holland Land Office Museum is proud to announce the next presenter in our Guest Speaker Series on Wednesday, October 21st at 6 pm. Derrick Pratt of the Erie Canal Museum will be presenting “The Beer-ie Canal Was A-Risin’: Brewing on the Erie Canal.” The Erie Canal was a transformative waterway for various industries along its route, including brewing, which flourished from Albany to Buffalo. This discussion examines the Canal’s beer boom in the 19th century and its new one in the 21st. The Guest Speaker presentation will be held at GO ART! located at 201 E. Main St. in Batavia. Please contact the museum at 585-343-4727 or hollandlandoffice@gmail.com if you plan to attend.
The Guest Speaker Series is sponsored in part by Tompkins Community Bank.
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.”