Below is a list of our 2025 History Talks and Cemetery Tours.
Monthly History Talks occur the last Wednesday evening at 7pm from May – October in the Gaines Basin Cobblestone Schoolhouse.
Donations gladly accepted.
May 28 – “The First Norwegian Settlement in the U.S. (1825) in Kendall, NY” with Dee Robinson, Retired Gaines Historian
June 25 – “The Life of Joseph Ellicott, Surveyor of the Wilderness” with Dennis Upton, Storyteller and Reenactor
July 30 – “The Haudenosaunee Confederacy” with Kae Woodruff Wilbert
August 27 – “Orleans County Fruit Culture as Living History” with Amy Machamer, Owner Hurd Orchards
September 24 – “The Erie Canal & the Burned Over District: History is NOT Accidental” with Doug Miller
October 29 – “NYS Historic Markers” with Catherine Cooper, Orleans County Historian
Cemetery Tours – every Sunday at 6pm in August (rain or shine).
Donations gladly accepted.
August 3- Mt. Albion Cemetery, Route 31 with Bill Lattin, Retired Orleans County Historian and Sue Starkweather Miller, Village of Albion Historian
August 10 – Robinson Cemetery, Route 237 & Glidden Road, Clarendon with Melissa Ierlan, Clarendon Historian
August 17 – Millville Cemetery, East Shelby Road, Medina with Alice Zacher & Mary Zelazny
August 24 – TBA
August 31 – St. Joseph’s Cemetery, East Avenue, Albion with Catherine Cooper, Orleans County Historian and Sue Starkweather Miller, Village of Albion Historian