Guest Speaker Series: Dyder Smith, “My Life in the South”

The Holland Land Office Museum is proud to announce the next presentation of our 2026 Guest Speaker Series on Friday, February 13th. Oakfield resident, Dyder Smith, will be sharing the perspective of a former slave living in the south. Ms. Smith grew up in the state of Alabama and will be sharing stories from her life and the life her ancestors living in the southern states.
Admission is by suggested donation, please contact the museum at 585-343-4727 or hollandlandoffice@gmail.com if you would like to attend.
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.”