I'm a senior citizen with two bad knees and unable to walk very far these days - thank you for taking me along with you on your hike through these gorgeous woods - such beautiful country, I enjoyed the rain, I could almost smell the clean, fresh air, thanks!
I love videos like this. It feels rather like going on a museum tour, except I don’t have to put down my tea for it. Fascinating anecdotes about the townspeople, really well-presented and engaging. Maybe I’ll take a look at old Dogtown myself when I’m next in the area.
You sit still and the exhibits move past you...museums by Disney.... I could appreciate that.... 😉☺ It's a small past, after all. (Sorry, I got carried away....)
Since I was freezing cold, I chose to watch your video on my large screen monitor, from my bed six feet away. Once comfortably tucked in, however, I realized the volume was way too low, but the shivering compelled me to view it without the commentary. Let me say that the scenery changed with each step you took. I was enchanted by the color tableau of vivid greens, reds, oranges and brown, totally beautiful. I replayed it this morning and heard the constant rain, but that experience last evening made me save it to my favorites. I urge anyone who like me, is wondering if spring will ever come, to do likewise.
I am in Scotland and it’s freezing here too and will be for about another 4 months. Then we get two months of a tiny temp increase then it’s back to coldness and darkness for months. I hope your summer, and it’s lovely warmth, is looking closer to you now than it did a month ago when you first made your comment.
I couldn't help but feel a little bad for the "witch" Tammy. She probably lived a sad life in her dilapidated house, depending on the local lore to keep herself fed.
Bog iron is so cool, its actually deposited by bacteria that get energy out of the oxidation reaction when iron turns into rust. They then leave the rust behind as waste material
Bro this stuff is gold. No idea how I stumbled on to your channel a couple of months ago (I remember now, it was the leading your brother blind one) but you are consistently putting out great content. I'm trying to think of where (and what) to share to get this some more recognition. Anyone have any ideas? r/newengland? Dime Store needs a shoutout somewhere.
haha, really glad you've been enjoying my stuff! Feel free to share anything of mine anywhere you want. I'm always grateful when people help spread the word.
Awesome video man. I live out in western MA. I’m definitely going to check dog town out. The story of Lambs legend hits home, a once widely important geographic location, now bears no resemblance to its past. “Now it’s just a bunch of rocks behind an office building. Thats the way she goes”. Makes you wonder what people will think of our own communities 100+ years from now.
Those carved boulders are preachy at best...and pretty creepy at the worst. i love that you showcase New England on your channel. Definitely one of the best areas in the US.
Before social media, it was actually considered good form to give a bit of critical encouragement. Reminding people to focus on "the basics" instead of wallowing and complaining about what you cannot change was the best way to get someone out of their personal funk. Contrast that with today's form of "encouragement", which is to tell them that it's not their fault and society's to blame.
@@upStompConsider that a factor in the shift away from this mindset may be that in the midst of the great depression, one of the country's wealthiest men figured that the most valuable contribution he could make to the economic downturn was to carve "GET A JOB" on a boulder in the middle of a shanty town of outcasts. The depression didn't happen because everyone slept in one day. Why value hard work when all it gets you is the consequences of someone else's wastefulness?
i was gunning it (i live there) and seriously ATE the courage rock, spinning off the handlebars on my bike. i swear the friggin trees were laughing at me.
I’m in the UK and I lived in a village with extensive woods and caves which had witchy legends, so this took me right back. No huge areas of abandoned town here, but I remember searching for the rock with the spring inside it where you could stick a leaf into a hole to make a little spout and drink good water, and scramble down the caves to scare each other in the dark. Keep making the awesome videos!
Many years ago I read a novel "the Last Days of Dogtown" by Anita Diamant. The impression I got was that Dogtown was a place of exile. A village of outcasts. Some accidental unfortunates and others last hold outs of better days. Thank you for this pleasant adventure. I enjoyed the nature and beinng from the "other" shore, south of boston this could be a fun trip to experience!
Oh dang! Released just as I start lunch. Stayin golden pony boy! Babson ran for president as the Prohibition Party in 1940. 7 years after prohibition ended. Kinda not surprised the carvings he chose are so dreary. Babson was also kinda nice, too. Writing about the 'witches'- "Tammy had great courage and apparently remarkable executive ability. In fact, a study of the witch problem indicates that these so-called witches were merely people of marked individuality, determination, with ability to get others to do what they wished them to do. Today these same people would be leaders in political gatherings, labor movements, and various reforms. They might even become captains of industry. A common opportunity, existing in those days to show such ability in a little village, consisted in witchery, so-called,” wrote Babson.
Wow this was a great video often it's hard to connect to historical people and you made it so easy to see how everyone interacted with each other. Which made it feel real
There's more in this one video than in 20 videos on most channels, well done for putting it all in one place and not spinning each two-minute anecdote into a 20-minute video. It really makes this one town feel so rich and brings it all back to life, especially with the Babson Boulders as a connecting theme, I'm really impressed by the story-telling and structure. Also not that it was my fault, but speaking as a British guy, sorry for all the conflict in those times.
Your videos are so terrific. What a wonderful storyteller you are. I just ran across your videos yesterday. I have now watched four of them. All very professional. Thanks for your hard work and giving us the opportunity to see history.
Just found your channel this evening. You provide a great narrative in this post. Congratulations, and thank you for being so thorough and for doing such a good job with the facts and anecdotes. I look forward to viewing more of your content. You're a rare gem on UA-cam!
I grew up playing in those woods. We found and mapped every cellar and found Peter Lurvey's lilac bushes he brought from England in the 1700s. I drank from wine brook plenty. It was clean. The boulders are called erratics and the glacial drop is called a terminal moraine. Check out Dogtown by Harry Chapin. Awesome song.
I played there as a kid. Loved going out there with my friend. We would play army. Real cool spot. Love that you made a video teaching some of the history of dog Town. Great work. Love it .
I love this channel. You are such a good storyteller. A few years ago we tried to find dogtown. I think you can get there off a parking lot? It can actually be dangerous if you’re not prepared. The ground is very uneven, trails are poorly marked and on high summer it’s way overgrown. People twist their ankles in the cellar pits all the time and they used to fall in when they were deeper. Now I feel better about missing it. I got the tour without the difficulty.
@@anneamus I'm sure that's true in some cases. The literal ex prison guard that owned the McDonald's I worked at over the pandemic said similar things, though. I don't think it's unreasonable to point out the pattern's ongoing destructive tendencies, even if there have been silver linings to it.
"Get A Job" and "Keep Out Of Debt" must've been irritating, to say the least, to see during the Depression...apparently, when he had the "Ideas" stone carved, he failed to consider that not all ideas are good.
I'm from UK and this is amazing all that history and all of it barely documented. I don't think anywhere in UK has been abandoned since the black death apart from a couple of towns/villages for reservoirs or military reasons
Nice work! Very interesting, I really enjoyed "walking" with you through the area. My favorite tree is at 44:40 - - Any stories about that one? Thanks for this video!
I lived in Gloucester for 6 years & went to dog town a LOT. Blueberries in summer…so many you can pick ‘em til you’re sick of ‘em. In winter I’d put a Growler of beer in my backpack & cross country ski thru Dogtown to visit my friend in Rockport.
Great Video!!! There is another really cool site in that area. It is the old Nike Missile Site in North Beverly. It is now owned by the Beverly Water Supply and has a huge water tank above ground, and the old underground army base is flooded with water for storage. It was built up to install radar dishes to detect incoming missiles. Keep up the good work!!
Hey Dime Store loved this video! Couple other places in Mass you could potentially make videos on: (These are all within Mt Tom reservation) the Erie house on Mt Nonotuck and the ruins of the old summit house on top of Mt Tom as well as the abandoned Mt Tom Ski resort, slopes, and amusement park
Great channel.. I love your stories via the research you do. Would you be able to do a video about how you research and what databases you use (besides googling, libraries, historical societies, find a grave) are there other useful online tools ?
This was really cool. I listen to rain videos like this just hoping to get this quality of realism. It goes from strong to light rain. You can almost make the distance of the rain hitting the leaves everywhere. Most videos are static and stationary. Cool to find out about these spots and the lore. It was really cool when you talked about the witch Tammy and it started to rain real hard. You did well. Thanks!
My father climbed Spiritual Power rock, because he could. He climbed all over the world: cliffs, mountains, was featured in a few climbing books because he was climbing 10s when he was in his 80s. He is now 90 and doesn't climb much anymore.
Thank you for getting soaked, to provide us with the history of this area. It is truly beautiful and warms my heart to see all the new tree growth. Where did you resource the map your following? Is this place open to the public? I'd love to hike there one day.
Thanks for the tour of this interesting location. That's a moraine, but it is not a terminal moraine as you called it. The terminal moraine left by glaciation in this area is now under the Atlantic ocean, and this is true across much of New England. There can be a whole series of lesser moraines left behind the terminal moraine as the glacier retreats.
I've spent months of my life with my grandma up in Gloucester and never even HEARD of all this! All despite a "Dogtown Books" in the middle of town. I now have an overwhelming need to acquire a virtuous boulder
The giant boulders left behind are called glacial erratics. They, and all the other rocks, big and small, come from the glacier breaking off pieces of bedrock and grinding it up as it goes along like sandpaper. We did a geology unit in school and it was FASCINATING! I like how your vids are like storytelling around the fire on a stormy nite.
I love your videos, because you have done your historical research. Other historical tours are so superficial with no effort to learn the background of the places they tour.
Love the channel and it’s nice to see interesting and funny educational videos. I can only stand so many videos of people getting hit in the nuts on a skateboard, or reaction videos… haha
This is awesome!!! I’m a native Cape Codder and although Dogtown isn’t exactly near by, I’m still surprised I’ve never heard of it! I wish I knew it was there when I was living in Lynn, but I’ll still make the trip to visit from where I live now. I love learning about these little treasures in our state! 👌 oh and if your not already some kind of tour guide, you would be a great one!!!
I'm from a different part of mass but me and my friends used to smoke weed and walk around here. the random sayings on the rocks always tripped us out, finding the help mother one at 2 am when we were lost and baked is a classic memory of ours. Never knew why any of them were there until right now also i've seen tons of wild dogs there before , just putting that out there
Cool, I grew up in Rockport. This is cool to see. UA-cam algorithm served this to me. My dad taught me a ton of this stuff but I even learned some stuff from you!
This is so cool! I want to visit this place!! I love hiking! This is beautiful, even with the rain! Actually, id love to live here bc my dream is to live in the middle of the woods, AWAY from ppl and also be best a creek or river so i can listen to the water run. This is my first time watching your channel. I'm glad it showed up as something i might be interested in watching. Excellent video!!!!
Great job,man! Very entertaining and interesting. You also talk and even sound a lot like a good friend of mine who passed a couple years ago. Nice to sort of hear his voice again.
dude i love your videos, ill watch them well sleeping or well trying to just relax, and its so nice. its about a time i love. and i love how you go into the PEOPLE, not just the city
Thank you I have been too unwell to get out lately and today where I live we have been plunged into cold cloud.You have lifted my mood enormously.So thanks again
Thanks for your dedication to do this long story in the rain, at least there was no bugs! The area there is the same north of the border here in Canada in Ontario/Quebec. We have the same forests here because those glaciers were huge. I haven't walked in a forest in a long time but some fascinating areas can be found of old activity of past productive times now defunct and taken over by new growth forest. This story was very good with some great history! One of the best I've heard, thanks. (sausage lens 😜😆)
Thanks for that tour. I am originally from Mass, and been to Gloucester but never heard of Dogtown. It was very interesting. I would of loved to have hiked through it.
Great stories my friend. Glad I have a few years of content to binge! This channel is loads better than anything the History channel is showing. Don't know if it could make your list of places to visit. I lived in London, Ohio. There is a Restaurant there, called The Red Brick Tavern. From my understanding it is the 2nd oldest restaurant in America. Several Presidents ate, and stayed there back in the day. The town itself had a big part in the temperance movement. There is a park, Cowling Park, it has a time capsule buried that gets dug up in 20-40 years, I forget the date. Not sure if that is something you are interested in. If you look into the town, be sure to research the mysterious walking man. The Madison Press wrote a story up about him. I personally saw him several times, and so did many, many people I know. He was a real guy (it's not a ghost story), I forget what the paper said about him. From the content you are delivering, the town of London is tame and dull. But who knows, you might find a gem of a story in it. Cheers, and keep exploring.
Polite town!! No rebuttals or retorts carved on the inspiring boulders in response to "get a job" and "work" as the Great Depression crushed families' livelihoods. Lovely spot. Autumn foliage in the rain. I subbed today. Great content. Love your style of reporting history and oddities 100%❤
I lived in Gloucester for 6 years, frequenting Dog Town year round. With the exception of a couple of creepy places, it’s a great place to hike or pick blueberries or snowshoe over to rockport.
I'll admit it, I got 30 minutes deep before I realized this said "ghost town" and that it wasn't about a "haunted" forest hahah, damn it. That said, I really enjoyed this, subbed
I really ejoyed this video. Your stories of the history and camera work of the beautiful scenes. Great job. So glad i found your channel and looking at which of your videos to watch next. Thank you
I love chancing on this gem of a film. I’ve been to Dogtown once - (August 1971) while living in a converted fishing shack in the Riverdale section of Gloucester on the Mill River. We picked loads of blueberries 🫐 and saw a number of the stone-carved messages. More important, the film caught the flavor of dog town, though l recall scanter tree cover more than 50 years ago. Thanks for this huge treat!
I've climbed Spiritual Power! Dogtown gives me such WEIRD vibes when I'm walking through and now I know why. Thanks for the all the research you did and sharing the lore of this area - I always wondered what the rock carvings were about.
Genuinely how do you find this stuff? Do you look for green plots on google maps and explore? Find a town and just learn all it's local history? Do you have a reference? Im in VA and I'm sure I've got stuff similar to this where I live and would love let my curiosity go wild!
I'm a senior citizen with two bad knees and unable to walk very far these days - thank you for taking me along with you on your hike through these gorgeous woods - such beautiful country, I enjoyed the rain, I could almost smell the clean, fresh air, thanks!
I love videos like this. It feels rather like going on a museum tour, except I don’t have to put down my tea for it. Fascinating anecdotes about the townspeople, really well-presented and engaging. Maybe I’ll take a look at old Dogtown myself when I’m next in the area.
Hey, thank you! Really appreciate such a nice comment!
You sit still and the exhibits move past you...museums by Disney.... I could appreciate that.... 😉☺
It's a small past, after all.
(Sorry, I got carried away....)
Man, I really bursted out laughing at the "HELP MOTHER!"...
Why? Those words are reminders of things that are positive aspects of a good character.
Anita Diamant wrote a book about the women of Dogtown.
Think I mightve laughed even more if it said- mommy, i need this
"Help!" -Mother
There is nothing more beautiful than a New England forest in autumn and early winter.
yep!
A lovely rainy day hike!!! ❤
Looks like early autumn :)
Haha nope I wanna gtfo hereeee going going back back to Cali
Myackahattchi creek environmental preserve in North Port is by far nicer all year round.
Listening to the rain while you're walking around is so calming.
I was waiting to see the “Clean Your Room” boulder. Very interesting.
"wash your penis" XD
Sam Stanley and Old Ruth! I'm so glad a trace of their story remains.
Since I was freezing cold, I chose to watch your video on my large screen monitor, from my bed six feet away. Once comfortably tucked in, however, I realized the volume was way too low, but the shivering compelled me to view it without the commentary. Let me say that the scenery changed with each step you took. I was enchanted by the color tableau of vivid greens, reds, oranges and brown, totally beautiful. I replayed it this morning and heard the constant rain, but that experience last evening made me save it to my favorites. I urge anyone who like me, is wondering if spring will ever come, to do likewise.
I am in Scotland and it’s freezing here too and will be for about another 4 months. Then we get two months of a tiny temp increase then it’s back to coldness and darkness for months. I hope your summer, and it’s lovely warmth, is looking closer to you now than it did a month ago when you first made your comment.
I couldn't help but feel a little bad for the "witch" Tammy. She probably lived a sad life in her dilapidated house, depending on the local lore to keep herself fed.
I bet she was hot!
Bog iron is so cool, its actually deposited by bacteria that get energy out of the oxidation reaction when iron turns into rust. They then leave the rust behind as waste material
So bog iron is bacteria's poop? 😋
"so, somewhere underneath all these rocks is a bunch or horsebones"
"oh btw, some people think this place is haunted."
Bro this stuff is gold. No idea how I stumbled on to your channel a couple of months ago (I remember now, it was the leading your brother blind one) but you are consistently putting out great content. I'm trying to think of where (and what) to share to get this some more recognition. Anyone have any ideas? r/newengland? Dime Store needs a shoutout somewhere.
haha, really glad you've been enjoying my stuff! Feel free to share anything of mine anywhere you want. I'm always grateful when people help spread the word.
You know, you could write a very interesting book from all research you’ve done, I’d buy it!
Awesome video man. I live out in western MA. I’m definitely going to check dog town out. The story of Lambs legend hits home, a once widely important geographic location, now bears no resemblance to its past. “Now it’s just a bunch of rocks behind an office building. Thats the way she goes”. Makes you wonder what people will think of our own communities 100+ years from now.
Those carved boulders are preachy at best...and pretty creepy at the worst. i love that you showcase New England on your channel. Definitely one of the best areas in the US.
Reminded me of the messages from the movie, "They Live"
@@lorirober2536BEON TIME
Before social media, it was actually considered good form to give a bit of critical encouragement. Reminding people to focus on "the basics" instead of wallowing and complaining about what you cannot change was the best way to get someone out of their personal funk. Contrast that with today's form of "encouragement", which is to tell them that it's not their fault and society's to blame.
@@upStompConsider that a factor in the shift away from this mindset may be that in the midst of the great depression, one of the country's wealthiest men figured that the most valuable contribution he could make to the economic downturn was to carve "GET A JOB" on a boulder in the middle of a shanty town of outcasts. The depression didn't happen because everyone slept in one day. Why value hard work when all it gets you is the consequences of someone else's wastefulness?
i was gunning it (i live there) and seriously ATE the courage rock, spinning off the handlebars on my bike. i swear the friggin trees were laughing at me.
Would've been godly irony if that happened to be the "USE YOUR HEAD" rock
I’m in the UK and I lived in a village with extensive woods and caves which had witchy legends, so this took me right back. No huge areas of abandoned town here, but I remember searching for the rock with the spring inside it where you could stick a leaf into a hole to make a little spout and drink good water, and scramble down the caves to scare each other in the dark. Keep making the awesome videos!
Many years ago I read a novel "the Last Days of Dogtown" by Anita Diamant. The impression I got was that Dogtown was a place of exile. A village of outcasts. Some accidental unfortunates and others last hold outs of better days. Thank you for this pleasant adventure. I enjoyed the nature and beinng from the "other" shore, south of boston this could be a fun trip to experience!
Oh dang! Released just as I start lunch. Stayin golden pony boy!
Babson ran for president as the Prohibition Party in 1940. 7 years after prohibition ended. Kinda not surprised the carvings he chose are so dreary.
Babson was also kinda nice, too. Writing about the 'witches'-
"Tammy had great courage and apparently remarkable executive ability. In fact, a study of the witch problem indicates that these so-called witches were merely people of marked individuality, determination, with ability to get others to do what they wished them to do. Today these same people would be leaders in political gatherings, labor movements, and various reforms. They might even become captains of industry. A common opportunity, existing in those days to show such ability in a little village, consisted in witchery, so-called,” wrote Babson.
I can't get over how beautiful the scenery in this video. Just wow. Magical
Wow this was a great video often it's hard to connect to historical people and you made it so easy to see how everyone interacted with each other. Which made it feel real
Gotta give you mad props for going on this adventure in that weather! I can almost smell the rain!
There's more in this one video than in 20 videos on most channels, well done for putting it all in one place and not spinning each two-minute anecdote into a 20-minute video. It really makes this one town feel so rich and brings it all back to life, especially with the Babson Boulders as a connecting theme, I'm really impressed by the story-telling and structure. Also not that it was my fault, but speaking as a British guy, sorry for all the conflict in those times.
Your videos are so terrific. What a wonderful storyteller you are. I just ran across your videos yesterday. I have now watched four of them. All very professional. Thanks for your hard work and giving us the opportunity to see history.
This is a really cozy video, the rainfall, the calm voice explaining some interesting history, the scenery!
Just found your channel this evening. You provide a great narrative in this post. Congratulations, and thank you for being so thorough and for doing such a good job with the facts and anecdotes. I look forward to viewing more of your content. You're a rare gem on UA-cam!
I grew up playing in those woods. We found and mapped every cellar and found Peter Lurvey's lilac bushes he brought from England in the 1700s. I drank from wine brook plenty. It was clean.
The boulders are called erratics and the glacial drop is called a terminal moraine.
Check out Dogtown by Harry Chapin. Awesome song.
I played there as a kid. Loved going out there with my friend. We would play army. Real cool spot. Love that you made a video teaching some of the history of dog Town. Great work. Love it .
Another great video. Love the unedited feeling of just walking around the autumn woods talking about history
I love this channel. You are such a good storyteller. A few years ago we tried to find dogtown. I think you can get there off a parking lot? It can actually be dangerous if you’re not prepared. The ground is very uneven, trails are poorly marked and on high summer it’s way overgrown. People twist their ankles in the cellar pits all the time and they used to fall in when they were deeper. Now I feel better about missing it. I got the tour without the difficulty.
Those are definitely a rich guy’s idea of inspirational phrases huh
The job kept the stone workers alive. People were too proud to simply take handouts. They worked for the income.
@@anneamus
I'm sure that's true in some cases.
The literal ex prison guard that owned the McDonald's I worked at over the pandemic said similar things, though.
I don't think it's unreasonable to point out the pattern's ongoing destructive tendencies, even if there have been silver linings to it.
What you said bears deeper thought.
"Get A Job" and "Keep Out Of Debt" must've been irritating, to say the least, to see during the Depression...apparently, when he had the "Ideas" stone carved, he failed to consider that not all ideas are good.
@@tgbluewolf I wonder what the stone carvers thought about the phrases?
I'm from UK and this is amazing all that history and all of it barely documented. I don't think anywhere in UK has been abandoned since the black death apart from a couple of towns/villages for reservoirs or military reasons
that huge boulder definitely seems interesting to climb! would definitely want to check it out if i was in the area
Nice work! Very interesting, I really enjoyed "walking" with you through the area. My favorite tree is at 44:40 - - Any stories about that one? Thanks for this video!
Wow. Not only narration and storytelling skills, but your research skills are amazing too.
I lived in Gloucester for 6 years & went to dog town a LOT. Blueberries in summer…so many you can pick ‘em til you’re sick of ‘em. In winter I’d put a Growler of beer in my backpack & cross country ski thru Dogtown to visit my friend in Rockport.
I thought this might be stage fort park. Would you tell me where is gloucester. Ty
Great Video!!! There is another really cool site in that area. It is the old Nike Missile Site in North Beverly. It is now owned by the Beverly Water Supply and has a huge water tank above ground, and the old underground army base is flooded with water for storage. It was built up to install radar dishes to detect incoming missiles. Keep up the good work!!
Good job, we live very close to Dog Town and all the terrific trails and quarries. Great place to hike with your Dog!
Hey Dime Store loved this video! Couple other places in Mass you could potentially make videos on: (These are all within Mt Tom reservation) the Erie house on Mt Nonotuck and the ruins of the old summit house on top of Mt Tom as well as the abandoned Mt Tom Ski resort, slopes, and amusement park
I live in Holyoke, which is right near the Mount Tom reservation, and I agree that it’s a great place to explore.
That was fantastic. Great job, I really enjoyed it.
Great channel.. I love your stories via the research you do. Would you be able to do a video about how you research and what databases you use (besides googling, libraries, historical societies, find a grave) are there other useful online tools ?
Thanks, very entertaining. Keep history alive. You’re doing a tremendous service.👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
This was really cool. I listen to rain videos like this just hoping to get this quality of realism. It goes from strong to light rain. You can almost make the distance of the rain hitting the leaves everywhere. Most videos are static and stationary.
Cool to find out about these spots and the lore. It was really cool when you talked about the witch Tammy and it started to rain real hard. You did well. Thanks!
a beautiful trip, to say nothing of the excellent narration. happy to have found this channel.
It's been years since I visited Dogtown. Yep. Time to get back there. Thank you for the autumn, rainy day tour!
We really enjoyed this adventure especially the spooky stories and the pace & presentation was really well done thank you
So fun to go on these journeys with you. Thank You for the tour. 😊😊
It's great that there's a history that's written down for this abandoned place so many abandoned places the history is lost
My father climbed Spiritual Power rock, because he could. He climbed all over the world: cliffs, mountains, was featured in a few climbing books because he was climbing 10s when he was in his 80s. He is now 90 and doesn't climb much anymore.
Good comment, cool dad
What a great adventure you've taken me on. Thanks for this video. The stories and video are wonderful.
Thank you for getting soaked, to provide us with the history of this area. It is truly beautiful and warms my heart to see all the new tree growth. Where did you resource the map your following? Is this place open to the public? I'd love to hike there one day.
Thanks for the tour of this interesting location. That's a moraine, but it is not a terminal moraine as you called it. The terminal moraine left by glaciation in this area is now under the Atlantic ocean, and this is true across much of New England. There can be a whole series of lesser moraines left behind the terminal moraine as the glacier retreats.
Thank you for this video. You're a very good story teller. I'm so glad I found your channel!
You and I both know that Easter and Ruth weren't just roommates. fr though Big Ruth is legendary for doing that work
I've spent months of my life with my grandma up in Gloucester and never even HEARD of all this! All despite a "Dogtown Books" in the middle of town.
I now have an overwhelming need to acquire a virtuous boulder
STAY OUT OF DEBT
HELP MOTHER just plopped in the front lawn 😂
That’s because YOU DIDNT LIVE THERE AND GET TO EXPLORE LIKE US KIDS
The giant boulders left behind are called glacial erratics. They, and all the other rocks, big and small, come from the glacier breaking off pieces of bedrock and grinding it up as it goes along like sandpaper. We did a geology unit in school and it was FASCINATING! I like how your vids are like storytelling around the fire on a stormy nite.
I love your videos, because you have done your historical research. Other historical tours are so superficial with no effort to learn the background of the places they tour.
Love the channel and it’s nice to see interesting and funny educational videos. I can only stand so many videos of people getting hit in the nuts on a skateboard, or reaction videos… haha
This is awesome!!! I’m a native Cape Codder and although Dogtown isn’t exactly near by, I’m still surprised I’ve never heard of it! I wish I knew it was there when I was living in Lynn, but I’ll still make the trip to visit from where I live now. I love learning about these little treasures in our state! 👌 oh and if your not already some kind of tour guide, you would be a great one!!!
I'm from a different part of mass but me and my friends used to smoke weed and walk around here. the random sayings on the rocks always tripped us out, finding the help mother one at 2 am when we were lost and baked is a classic memory of ours. Never knew why any of them were there until right now
also i've seen tons of wild dogs there before , just putting that out there
Im from Massachusetts and i totally enjoyed this video and you! Thank you. New subscriber.
Very well done! It felt like I was right with ya the whole way. Thanks so much!
Cool, I grew up in Rockport. This is cool to see. UA-cam algorithm served this to me. My dad taught me a ton of this stuff but I even learned some stuff from you!
Thank you for a really well done tour of Dog Town, and dealing with all the rain to do it.
I live in Vermont, and have traveled around the N.E. quite extensively. It never seems to run out of treasures! Your video is one of them.
absolutely beautiful place with some beautiful stories
Nice to see I'm not the only one who enjoys a trek in the rain.
This is so cool! I want to visit this place!! I love hiking! This is beautiful, even with the rain!
Actually, id love to live here bc my dream is to live in the middle of the woods, AWAY from ppl and also be best a creek or river so i can listen to the water run.
This is my first time watching your channel. I'm glad it showed up as something i might be interested in watching. Excellent video!!!!
i love nature, new england, and history, this is the perfect channel for me 😭🩷
Fascinating story and looks like a beautiful hike. Thank you!
What a cool history hike! Thank you. One of my favorite ones.
Great job,man! Very entertaining and interesting. You also talk and even sound a lot like a good friend of mine who passed a couple years ago. Nice to sort of hear his voice again.
dude i love your videos, ill watch them well sleeping or well trying to just relax, and its so nice. its about a time i love. and i love how you go into the PEOPLE, not just the city
I remember seeing a sign on the highway for Dog Town, traveling out to Cranes Beach.. I always wondered about it Thanks so much❤
Thank you I have been too unwell to get out lately and today where I live we have been plunged into cold cloud.You have lifted my mood enormously.So thanks again
Thanks for the tour 👍🏾🤙🏾👌🏾✌🏾🫶🏾
Thanks for your dedication to do this long story in the rain, at least there was no bugs! The area there is the same north of the border here in Canada in Ontario/Quebec. We have the same forests here because those glaciers were huge. I haven't walked in a forest in a long time but some fascinating areas can be found of old activity of past productive times now defunct and taken over by new growth forest. This story was very good with some great history! One of the best I've heard, thanks. (sausage lens 😜😆)
That was a nice napping video. The forest in the rain is nice. That's tough hiking constantly negotiation the rocks and boulders.
Not me going through the entire catalogue of incredible content. Another great video
What a wonderful day for a walk in the woods of New England! Thanks for the adventure!
thanks algorithm! What a great video, this was absolutely fascinating thank you! Subscribed!
That story about Abram Warf was really spooky, just as you ended the rain picked up
Thanks for that tour. I am originally from Mass, and been to Gloucester but never heard of Dogtown. It was very interesting. I would of loved to have hiked through it.
Terrific Video!!! I appreciate that you filmed, despite the rain. Nature is beautiful in all weather : )
this is immensely enjoyable content, and i thank you for taking us on this adventure
Thank you for this very well made documentary of Dog town.
Great stories my friend. Glad I have a few years of content to binge! This channel is loads better than anything the History channel is showing.
Don't know if it could make your list of places to visit. I lived in London, Ohio. There is a Restaurant there, called The Red Brick Tavern. From my understanding it is the 2nd oldest restaurant in America. Several Presidents ate, and stayed there back in the day. The town itself had a big part in the temperance movement. There is a park, Cowling Park, it has a time capsule buried that gets dug up in 20-40 years, I forget the date. Not sure if that is something you are interested in. If you look into the town, be sure to research the mysterious walking man. The Madison Press wrote a story up about him. I personally saw him several times, and so did many, many people I know. He was a real guy (it's not a ghost story), I forget what the paper said about him.
From the content you are delivering, the town of London is tame and dull. But who knows, you might find a gem of a story in it.
Cheers, and keep exploring.
Awesome video, thanks for the beautiful scenery and great stories!
Polite town!! No rebuttals or retorts carved on the inspiring boulders in response to "get a job" and "work" as the Great Depression crushed families' livelihoods. Lovely spot. Autumn foliage in the rain. I subbed today. Great content. Love your style of reporting history and oddities 100%❤
Love this trip through history and how you are respectful of the land/being careful to not make yourself a Storytelling Skeleton.
I lived in Gloucester for 6 years, frequenting Dog Town year round. With the exception of a couple of creepy places, it’s a great place to hike or pick blueberries or snowshoe over to rockport.
I'll admit it, I got 30 minutes deep before I realized this said "ghost town" and that it wasn't about a "haunted" forest hahah, damn it. That said, I really enjoyed this, subbed
Lived in MA all my life and never knew about this. I will be making a trip for a walk!!
working my way through your catalogue while I work. Great stuff!
You got your exercise in on this shoot - great video ❤
I really ejoyed this video. Your stories of the history and camera work of the beautiful scenes. Great job. So glad i found your channel and looking at which of your videos to watch next. Thank you
I love chancing on this gem of a film. I’ve been to Dogtown once - (August 1971) while living in a converted fishing shack in the Riverdale section of Gloucester on the Mill River.
We picked loads of blueberries 🫐 and saw a number of the stone-carved messages.
More important, the film caught the flavor of dog town,
though l recall scanter tree cover more than 50 years ago.
Thanks for this huge treat!
What a unique find. Very interesting Colonial History.
Great job!
Beth
Tennessee, USA ☘️
I've climbed Spiritual Power! Dogtown gives me such WEIRD vibes when I'm walking through and now I know why. Thanks for the all the research you did and sharing the lore of this area - I always wondered what the rock carvings were about.
Genuinely how do you find this stuff? Do you look for green plots on google maps and explore? Find a town and just learn all it's local history? Do you have a reference? Im in VA and I'm sure I've got stuff similar to this where I live and would love let my curiosity go wild!