Walter Gable

Editor's Note: Watch the premiere LIVE on the FingerLakes1.com YouTube channel at 4 p.m. On this program in the Our Finger Lakes History series, Seneca County Historian Walter Gable tells us about the Montezuma National ... more

Editor's Note: Watch the premiere LIVE on the FingerLakes1.com YouTube channel at 4 p.m. Join Seneca County Historian Walter Gable for this edition of Our Finger Lakes History. The Richmond Aqueduct carried the waters of ... more

Editor's Note: Watch the premiere LIVE on the FingerLakes1.com YouTube channel at 4 p.m. On a special edition of Our Finger Lakes History, guest host Paul Shinal talks about the Auburn Road. The Auburn Road ... more

Editor's Note: Watch the premiere LIVE on the FingerLakes1.com YouTube channel at 5 p.m. The Finger Lakes National Forest is located in southern Seneca and northern Schuyler counties. Join Seneca County Historian Walter Gable as ... more

Editor's Note: Watch the premiere LIVE on the FingerLakes1.com YouTube channel at 7:30 p.m. Join Seneca County Historian Walter Gable in the second part of a multi-part series in Our Finger Lakes History on the ... more

In this opening part of a multi-part podcast series, Seneca County Historian Walter Gable explores the history of steamboats in the Finger Lakes. Steamboats became a vital part of transportation on Cayuga Lakes for both ... more

General Lafayette was considered to be the most famous Frenchman of all times. Seneca County Historian Walter Gable tells us about Marquis Lafayette's trip through the Finger Lakes. Made an honorary citizen of the United ... more

Watch the premiere at 4 p.m.! In a follow up to the Fort Ontario edition of Our Finger Lakes History, Seneca County Historian Walter Gable talks about Safe Haven Holocaust Refugee Camp, located on the ... more

Watch the premiere at 4 p.m.! March is Women's History Month in the United States, and Seneca County Historian Walter Gable tells us about some famous, and should be-famous, females in the Finger Lakes. Many ... more

Watch the premiere live at 4 p.m.! In this edition of Our Finger Lakes History, Seneca County Historian Walter Gable talks about Freedom Seekers. In the program, focusing specifically on Freedom Seekers who settled in ... more

In this edition of Our Finger Lakes History, Seneca County Historian Walter Gable tells us about the Historic Markers in New York State, the ones that stand along the road throughout the state. These markers ... more

Watch the premiere live at 8 pm! Seneca County Historian Walter Gable talks about the interesting history of the Christmas shopping season advertising. The idea of Christmas advertisements being a Christmas tradition have become possibly ... more

Watch the premiere at 8 pm tonight! In this episode of Our Finger Lakes History, Seneca County Historian Walter Gable looks at the Willard Asylum for the Insane. For many years, Willard was the largest ... more

This edition of Our Finger Lakes History deals with Fort Ontario in Oswego, NY. This is the longest existing operational fortress in the Finger Lakes. Seneca County Historian Walter Gable will discuss the long, storied ... more

This episode deals with Glenn Hammond Curtiss who was born in Hammondsport, NY at the south end of Keuka Lake in the Finger Lakes. Curtiss became famous as a pioneer in motorcycling and as an ... more

Seneca County Historian Walter Gable looks back at one of the most memorable dates of this generation on the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon in this special ... more

In this episode of Our Finger Lakes History on FingerLakes1.com, Seneca County Historian Walter Gable looks at the history of the Auburn Correctional Facility in Auburn, NY. The prison is among the oldest functional prisons ... more

This episode documents ferries that operated on Cayuga Lake during the ferry boat era between 1808 and 1866. Before there were railroads, and even until there were improved roads, ferry boats operated on the various ... more

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 ... more