Will the Last Evidence of this First Settlement Survive on Thunder Bay Island?
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(9/1/24) UPDATE! All of you viewers are amazing people! Two weeks after publishing this video - you guys have donated over $15,000 toward their new tractor!! This is seriously amazing and I think our help has been very encouraging to the team!! Thank you so much for your awesomeness! We are blown away by all of you.
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don't sell yourself short, you are one of the people putting in the work and creating, these are great advertisements for amazing places that deserve support and attention
You make great videos for us Michiganders
Each one is a heartfelt adventure🙌💚🌼
What a lucky guy you are to have Poppins! What a great sport! 😊❤️👍
She is amazing!
Alpena... my hometown. Your newest history lesson showed me things I grew up by but was oblivious to... until now. Thank you!
I grew up there too... If you ever want to know what people acted like back in the '80s, it's great to visit and find out.
My neighbor, the late, great Harry Adams was from Alpena.
He was a nationally known fly tyer(sp?) And wrote a column on fly tying for Field and Stream. He was a local expert on arrowheads from the Pottawatomie and Iriquois tribes who lived near the Grand River where I live now.
Harry was 75 when I was 8 and I was born in 1964. He took me fishing and arrowhead hunting in my youth.
His wife was born on Valentine's Day and I was a day later. She made me cookies for my birthday. I wish I knew her first name.
If everyone from Alpena is similar, it must have been a great place to grow up.
I had some business there twice😅, and this place takes you back in time. You might even find a bar open after dark. 😅
Are u a doper and druggie DanP?
Just donated! My family and I live in Michigan and I am constantly fascinated by the rich history of this state. We just spent a week vacationing in a cottage on the shore of Lake Huron just north of Harrisville. Thunder Bay is a treasure! Thank you for bringing Michigan's many stories to life.
Awesome! Thank you for helping them!
I don't know your beliefs . . . And not trying to offend. But Thank You and may God Bless you for your generosity.
I was stationed there from 1975 until early 1977. I was there when the tall sailing ships came thru in 1976. I enjoyed every minute of it and never wanted to leave. But then I went to Marquette and lived in the first floor of the big red lighthouse.
Do you have any pictures Dave
@geesss8675 yes I do but there old Kodak pictures.
USCG ?
How cool!!!
I'll probably never own a boat and I strongly appreciate that y'all make videos in places I'll never get to see otherwise.
Thank you for reminding me how great it is to live in Northern Michigan (Petoskey).
Awesome!!!! Rick is my brother in law! Proud of y'all....born in Michigan
Spent my summers in Ossineke and greetings from Germany! Here w my beautiful German wife! God bless you all....and love and hugs to Alpena!
I grew up in Port Huron but I live in North Carolina now. I was just up in Michigan last week visiting family. I've been to Alpena many times. I love Michigan history. I left Michigan but it has never left me. Thanks for posting.
Welcome!
It never will
Oh, now I want to rent a rubber boat and to out to the Island next time we make it up there! I love preservation. Maybe this is something to spend my summers doing once I retire. Thanks for sharing!
We reluctantly moved from MI to Indiana 22 years ago. Only then did I realize how much nautical lingo was in my vocabulary. Missing the Lakes, lighthouses, the North, fresh fish, and even the weather! Thank you for these excellent videos! ❤
Thanks!
Many thanks Kay!!
The awesome adventures just keep coming…too cool. A donation on behalf of the Restless Viking for the lighthouse restoration is on the way. Thank you Mr. Chuck and Ms. Poppins for the adventure via my La-Z-Boy. Explore away.
You're the best! Thanks!
Wow! Thanks, Chuck and Poppins for telling this story so well and humbly donating a chunk of your revenue to the cause of preservation of the lighthouse! My grandfather Ingvar was a lighthouse keeper in Norway (my mother Ingrid grew up on an island!) so finding your channel today from my Chicago apartment feels like a welcome treasure❤ Ahoy!
I think I just found my favorite TH-cam channel.
Becoming mine too, after Bob Gymlan -'s Bigfoot channel!
If everyone who watches this video would donate just $1.00, it would help us tremendously! Thank you! ❤
You guys are great. Love the midwestern insouciance ❤and knowledgeable narration. Keep up the adventuring!
It's amazing how beautiful that part of the world is. I love the history of the people who made it their home. Thank you for your hard work that's educational as well as entertaining.
We are salt of the earth.
I love your adventures and learning more about our state and it's history. Thank you!
We have a house in Atlanta-Canada Creek Ranch, and we had a Mexican lunch on the water in Alpena last Saturday!!! It’s a LOVELY AREA!!!! All the beaches along that coast are awesome!!!
Great video of Michigan Spirit!
Thanks for sharing this story about the wonderful people that give their time and talents to help restore and maintain these historic structures!
Lived my childhood summers with my grandparents on Grand lake. Brings me way back
Another AWESOME VID!!! Thanks for your time! Most of all THANK YOU TO ALL VOLUNTEER FOLKS BUSTING THEIR BUTTS to take care of our history!! P.s I'm a proud resident of northern Michigan!! Thanks to all. I really would like to visit some day when I'm finally retired! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
I spend a ton of time in Alpena and by Ossineke camping and backpacking, it’s a great area.
You were right about people who give back for free. I’ve worked with thousands of volunteers over the years. I’m always impressed by their heart by their humanity. Thank you for sharing this wonderful story from a place not too far from where I went to high school in Oscoda. I’ll click your link and add to the donations. Keep exploring.
Truly! I've had volunteers accomplish more in an organization than the paid staff did! It really says something! And thanks Denny!
Spent time out there as a kid visiting the Coasties with my parents, climbing the lighthouse, fishing around the old boathouse and wooden pier, and "treasure hunting" on the SW side of the island in the gravel. Great memories.
Well done video presentation, Thank you so much!!
The opening on the river was great and brought back many fond memories. I worked in a shop on the river, you could see it in the background, and watched fishermen troll for walleye. Alpena is a great town! I actually lived at the North end of Grand Lake. Miss it!! This was an amazing video from an area that I truly love. So much history! I lived almost within walking distance of two lighthouses at Presque Isle, MI.
I am just north of there, but I lived in Alpena for nearly 20 years it sure is nice to see people volunteering their time and work to make things better than what they were.
Have met many volunteers at Michigan's lighthouses. Such awesome people who share in the love of history and Michigan. Aren't we lucky? Thanks, Chuck and Poppins for another super video!❤
Great video!
I love the wonderful state of Michigan and truly appreciate learning more about it.
Solid production values for a small channel. Thank you.
P.S. Alternating narrators works well too.
Much appreciated!
What a fantastic history lesson. I would love to visit this place sometime. It is really interesting to me how in trying to save some of our history, these folks have become a part of it.
Shared to my page.. Thank You- to all the volunteering workers and those that gave money.
over 15K? Dayum! Got some solid followers..
They are amazing!
always enjoy your travels around the Great Lakes, so much history and beautiful country to see.....thank you for sharing your adventures with us
From the great “O” state to the south, I salute your videos on Michigan as I’ve always held that state up north in awe, as wilderness to a kid who spent many vacations in the wilds of Michigan. Thank you.
As our theme is intended to be the "Great Lakes" we hope to get more Ohio videos in soon! Thanks for hanging with us!
Awesome , love your videos .
So cool! Thanks for the effort that goes into these videos
Great content!
Thanks, Chuck and Poppins, I always enjoy your videos, It just so happens we're near alpena today.
Thanks for another great Michigan history lesson.
Plus up the cost of this are the two Presque Isle lighthouses. Wonderful piece you have done about this island. Kudos to you!
Always watch your videos of back home. Very very insightful, informative and well presented. Good job you two.
Went to high school in Hillman Michigan, Alpena is part of my old stomping grounds.
Great work on the video! Love to see this place being maintained and hope it’s around for years to come. Local history is so important and needs to be preserved future generations!
Excellent job with this. You two are really hitting your stride with these quality videos. I was born in Montana but moved to Oscoda in 1953 where I grew up and visited Alpena many times. I was unaware of the history lesson that you just shared with us. It's great to still learn pieces of history of our great State of Michigan. Keep up your good work and thanks.
These people are doing great work. I wish I lived closer. I made a small donation. Great video Chuck and Poppins! 🙂
Thanks for helping out!!
Amazing people of the past, and amazing people preserving the past. Thank you for an awesome video. 🙂
Thank you so much…what an awesome video. That travel and hike is not for the faint of heart. Donated. What a fabulous group of dedicated historians. My mom lived and worked in Alpena for many years. Lots of holiday memories. It will always hold a place in my heart. 💜
Thanks so much for helping them out!!
Thank You for letting me Tag alone, !!! I really enjoy this channel ,👍👍👍👍👍🙏
This is by far the best video u guys have put out PLEASE KEEP DOING IT
Thanks for taking us along on your and now my adventure. Truely great to see people so involved with saving the past and ready to roll their sleeves up and do the work, like generations passed did. Contribution to mower fund and Subscribed!
Thanks for your help and subscribing, Airtow!
Those people are preserving a legacy. Fantastic shots, looking forward to more from you guys
Awesome presentation, thank you..! Was in Thunder Bay in 2002 doing the ROV survey of the shipwrecks. Hope to return and do more explorations on land and Lake...
All-time favorite video from Restless Viking!
Love you guys and all that you do for our great state of Michigan.
Excellent points at the end Chuck. Thanks for sharing this.
Wow. It’s so beautiful and quiet and warm. It must be nice in winter too
Just did a tour of the Chantry Island lighthouse this summer. It is straight across Lake Huron from you by Southampton Ontario. Fittingly I saw a sailboat that week wreck itself on the rocks near my cottage. The wind and water are unforgiving. Thankfully they managed to salvage it!
One of the Imperial Towers is on Chantry Island! I kayaked there years ago before visiting Tobermory. Great Place.
This was a fabulous adventure
Great video! Thanks for sharing all the history!
i enjoy this video so much
I remember when they started out there that the light house had a major crack up the side of it which they seem to have repaired. It was in rough shape when the group started. A friend of my dad's (Freer Butt) first told us of the group. Back in the late 60's my cousins along with my brother and dad sailed out to the island and were given a tour by the Coast Guardsmen. It was really neat but I wish the govt. had left all the buildings there. Excellent video and it brought back many memories. Alpena is a wonderful city to visit with a lot of history including the Jessie Besser Museum and the Great Lakes Marine Sanctuary. It is a great visit to the Sun Rise side of Michigan.
The crack is still there and in desperate need of repair. It is one of the items at the top of the Thunder Bay Light House Preservation Society's list of things to accomplish!
Your videos are great fun. One suggestion is to show maps for longer periods. Thanks
😊 thank you for sharing.
Well done. Cogent and well delivered on both parts. I am Canadian so you provided me education on a part of the world I love. Interesting history.
Good Work, kind hearts and Thank You
When I donated via the link, it did not show me the current total that’s been raised. I am curious if you don’t mind sharing?. I noticed that the video has 68,000 views. Wouldn’t it be amazing if everyone who has watched just gave one dollar? Cheers to the both of you for helping get donations. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
On our last check in, it was $15,000 last week!
Hiyas Restless Viking's
I thoroughly enjoyed this video and I'm glad I found this channel. I love and cherish the Great Lakes region and am proud to live here. Hej from another Norsk Pojke
... and beautiful sunrises!
Hi greetings from northern n.b Canada just came across your channel ,very amazing stuff .
Thanks!😊
“Consuming instead of creating” and “doing work for free as a volunteer” made me remember a quote from George Bernard Shaw, known as “A Splendid Torch.” Appropriate, considering the lighthouse subject.
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no "brief candle" for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
George Bernard Shaw
We watch these folks go out to the Lighthouse from the Alpena Marina on occasion. I would love to someday join them. I was blessed to be a docent for Fort Gratiot Lighthouse, which is a little older tower a while ago in Port Huron. What treasures these structures are.
They are! And I'm sure they would love to have some help!
Have you done a video on South Fox Island yet? Some really interesting history there, such as "King Strang" and a beautiful lighthouse and quarters that's currently undergoing restoration. I visited in and late 90s before restoration started and was amazed with how little vandalism and looting there was. Being 16 miles off shore helps, I'm sure.
If it wasn't for that, it would be in shambles.
Thanks! You two are doing great work - need to donate to you too.
Well. . . you know we kind of donate much of our revenue, but we'll raise a glass to you for buying us a drink!
2:58 A bug shirt? Had to look that up, and what a great find.
Great content! Thank you!
Welcome! Thank you!
BIG FAN of your guys videos. I would love a video on US 12 the road that runs from Detroit to Chicago
I live along US 12 near the border, I'd like this too. I know it was called "The old Chicago Trail" but haven't learned a lot more about it.
Old Sauk Trail from Amherstburg, Ontario to Chicago and beyond. Traveled by many Natives to obtain their payments from the French Canadians then the British starting in 1763 (at Détroit), then the British at Fort Malden/Amherstburg after 1796 when Detroit turned over to the Americans.
@@Kristin1958 Thank you!
My first wife told the story that her great grandmother was the first white child born in that area. No documentation but her name was Winona.
Great video! Thanks for sharing your trip, the history, & the information!
Awesome adventure & great info . The water in between sugar & t.b. Islands we call the Caribbean stunning views !
Thankyou Mr. Viking. I enjoyed this video as I have enjoyed others on your channel. I suggest you look up Alexis Dahl, another entering and educational presenter.
Great tour, informational. My great grandfather travled from Luxembourg all the way to Alpena in 1899, so the area is very near n dear to us. Thanks to all that help keep our lighthouses beautiful.
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks!
Thank you!
@@RestlessViking Hey, FYI… the TH-cam algorithm keeps “unsubscribing” my account. I’m diligent about correcting this on a weekly basis. I’m aware that this is a TH-cam anomaly… I just want you to know so you don’t have any lost revenue.
Thanks John! You are appreciated!
y'all went out there in that tiny boat? brave
?? Probably one of the best boats for rough seas, if you know your boats.
I saw this about a year ago when I went on a lighthouse cruse on the lady Michigan. I started hearing more and more about this island and stuff. I have liked lighthouses for sometime a few years ago I got into horse riding I just thought it would be soo cool go to an island on a boat ride a horse around look at the lighthouse.
Also thank you for donating to this, kind of got a chill watching this and seeing what is going on there.
As always a great presentation with lots of history and personal interest included. We enjoy your channel because it is interesting and you don't over do it. Thanks.
Thanks Rick!
What a great video. I am from Mich. but lived in the lower Pen. I have not seen into southern Mich. much . I'm from Muskegon & love the UP which a haven't seen much of but have been up around Munising. Now I live in North Carolina & haven't been to Mich since 2016. I sure do miss it.
So glad I found you guys! Great video.💙💙
Cool story as always. Donated. From one leg to another…hooah!
Chuck & Poppin. I just wanted to say your videos are great. Love all the Michigan history you explore. Also your passion for preserving these historical sites. Good luck with all your future travels!!!
Thanks 👍
Great video and what a great group of dedicated volunteers. I donated to their cause. Thanks for the heads-up!
Thanks!!
you guys always find the most beautiful places to explore, but then Im biased. makes me miss my home state lol
Michigan is full of beautiful places - they're easy to find.
Thanks for your interesting video s
Well, you came to alpena and I didn't even get to see you guys 😢
Though it's like 50 years newer, Sherwood Pt Light House (Door County WI) was also automated in 1983. I recall the 3 man crew, supplemented by Coasties from Station Sturgeon Bay WI up till it was automated. The CG still owns the area where the Lighthouse stands and it's used as a Moral/Recreation facility for active duty and retired military folks to say. Last time I visited the light house when it was manned was in 1980 when I was stationed on the CGC Mobile Bay (WTGB-103). And in 2015, I spent a few nights in the lighthouse facility while there to celebrate the mother in law's birthday.
Hopefully you got a chance to stop in at Thunder Bay Winery and get Poppins something to drink. Their Devil's River is the wine my wife and I always keep a supply of because nobody has ever not loved it. Plus the people who own it are local.
Great video!