This whimsical Blown Egg Art Collection of Dr. Kerfoot Walker and Family is an amazing story of a family’s collection of eggs throughout their childhood. Tyler’s “Easter Egg Lady” Nell Burnett made these blown eggs into characters that you and your children will recognize and adore! Come see this large collection & share in the family’s childhood memories. Visit us at the museum and create some family memories of your own, December 8, 2018 through April 27, 2019! Opening day for this exhibit will be celebrated Saturday, December 8, 2018 from 4:00 to 8:00 PM as a part of Tyler’s Holiday Museums Open House event. During this Open House event, you can also enjoy  face painting, crafts and a family friendly scavenger hunt.  

As a museum and archives,  the Smith County Historical Society actively accepts donations of objects and documents! In preparation of this meeting, our Archives Manager and Office Manager inventory and prepare all available information on possible donations and then present them to the committee. We may not accept any item into any of our collections until it has been voted on and approved by this committee. Since the Society is the SMITH COUNTY Historical Society, we do ask that all donations have a relationship to our County and its rich history! If you have items that aren’t Smith County related, but would still like to see them donated to an appropriate institution, we would be happy to direct  you to the best of our abilities! Please do note: all items discussed at the meetings must be received PRIOR to the meeting! With a limited amount of time for our members to discuss each object, document, or photo(s) we try and prep as much as possible before hand!   If you have items you would like to donate, please feel free to call or stop by our offices!

January’s monthly meeting topic will be ‘Carnegie Medal of Honor Winners from Smith County’. Our speaker will be Carol Kehl.  

As a museum and archives,  the Smith County Historical Society actively accepts donations of objects and documents! In preparation of this meeting, our Archives Manager and Office Manager inventory and prepare all available information on possible donations and then present them to the committee. We may not accept any item into any of our collections until it has been voted on and approved by this committee. Since the Society is the SMITH COUNTY Historical Society, we do ask that all donations have a relationship to our County and its rich history! If you have items that aren’t Smith County related, but would still like to see them donated to an appropriate institution, we would be happy to direct  you to the best of our abilities! Please do note: all items discussed at the meetings must be received PRIOR to the meeting! With a limited amount of time for our members to discuss each object, document, or photo(s) we try and prep as much as possible before hand!   If you have items you would like to donate, please feel free to call or stop by our offices!

The 1st Tuesday of the month of February, February 5, 2019, will be the Society’s Annual Meeting. Members will be asked to vote on the proposed budget for 2019. We will also have the installation of our newest Board members. Then we will have an interesting and informative Program about The Cut!  Our Board member Larry Wade will be our Program Speaker. Come learn more about this once booming African American business district in north Tyler. Our meetings are held upstairs in the Payne Auditorium Social from 6:30 – 7:00 Annual Meeting starts at 7:00 and Program follows Thank you and I look forward to seeing you at the meeting!