OUR FINGER LAKES HISTORY: Pledge of Allegiance has a local connection (podcast)

June 26, 2021 @ 6:00 PM | Updated: August 5, 2021 @ 10:57 PM

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In this episode of Our Finger Lakes History, Seneca County Historian Walter Gable looks at Francis Bellamy who is the author of the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. Bellamy was born in Mount Morris and married a woman from Newark, NY.

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