WOW Will...thank you so much for sharing your childhood memories! I loved how you decided to make the Smokies your future. When I was 8 years old, I did a study on East Tennessee and the Smokies. I fell in love with Tennessee so much that I had decided that I wanted a cabin tucked away in the smokies when I grew up. I told my Dad about my childhood dream and he said “A thousand mile journey begins with the first step” and he handed me my first $5 bill to put towards my cabin. Well, that’s all it took for me to start saving my money. With all the money I had saved beginning at the age of 8, I bought a cabin in Wears Valley, Tennessee in 2003. I am now 51 years old and I still have my childhood dream in which will become my retirement home very soon. As for now though, I wanted to share my cabin with the world, so it’s on a vacation rental program as a nightly rental. 😊
Dang Im kinda teary eyed watching u talk about your home and memories... Im 42 and thinking of the 80s that were so simple and just playing outside till dinner time makes me smile. Thank you Will
Same here!! l was born in 1979 near travere city, MI and I moved the middle TN in 2002 now I'm in Destin, Florida but we still go to the smokies two or three times a year. And Michigan will always be in my heart!! Wow I was really moved by this video thanks.
You guys are amazing and definitely my inspiration! You are examples of what I wish everyone would be. Kind, genuine and caring. Would love to be your neighbor!!!!!
Thank you for sharing your story. Great video!!! We love the Smokies too. I have a t-shirt that reads.....The mountains are calling and I must go. So true.
Thank you both for sharing this video with everyone. It was nice to see where you grew up Will. Also, thank you for showing us the fire fighters Memorial site. 911 was a very sad day for America and the rest of the world. I can't wait to see where Dawn grew up. Love you both. God bless
Will and Dawn - I really enjoyed seeing this. I teared up a few times and it made me remember my childhood as well. You both are the sweetest people on the planet.
Thank you for sharing Brown City. I'm originally from Michigan too and it is a beautiful state. Now live in Florida and get to the Smokies at least a couple of times a year. My mom just loves your videos. She is probably your oldest viewer; she will be 101 in March. Can't wait to show her this video.
Almost everyone who grows up in northern states make a goal to move south We can’t imagine leaving our homes Why so many people in the north leave the north?
This is crazy, I been following your channel for a while, I’m also from Michigan and grew up in Florida. I’m looking for a high school baseball coach job in Michigan, Brown,City, MI is looking for a JV coach so I came to TH-cam to look the city up. Your chat was the first thing that came up, small world. Your friend Donnie
Will...thanks for sharing this video. We really enjoyed your trip down memory lane! It is said that you can’t go home again, maybe that’s true, but it is sure nice to visit once in a while. Keep these videos coming! We are proud of you guys!
Will & Dawn, So very sorry about hearing Honey bear passed away. You & Dawn are in all my thoughts and prayers 🙏. I loved Honey Bear, she was beautiful & very precious. This is Mable Owens.
Will i thought i grew up in a small town but brother you got me beat😬and i think it's awesome you was conceived in Gatlinburg you are officially a true southerner , love your and dawns story 👍👍
I grew up traveling to a little town in Michigan called Dowagiac for two weeks every summer to help my cousins in the Cass County Fair. Love the story.
I used to pick up bottles too. Worth 10 cents apiece in Louisiana in the 70’s. Bought a lot of candy and stuff with that money. Thanks for the memories.
I loved this video..what a nice quiet little town..you had a really nice first home..thanks for sharing your younger years with us..what a great memorial piece from 9/11..thanks Will.
Thanks for sharing this history. We moved to Cadillac from Southern Oregon so we appreciate your comment about the cold. We've been in Cadillac since 1977 so have gotten used to this weather, but really fell in love with the Smokies a few years ago. We have friends that live there (Rick and Tommy Mohr that operate a custom knife shop right outside Smokey Mountain Knifeworks.)
Liked seeing your hometown and especially the 9/11 memorial. The town really showed its heart by making the memorial so special. We are a firefighting family so it really touched me. I grew up in a town without a stoplight too-in KY. My family went to Gatlinburg 3 or 4 times a year too. It will always be special to me and I try to get there at least once a year now. Thanks for showing what's new there and some of the smaller places that we might overlook. Dawn seems like the kind of person who has a good time wherever she is. Your a lucky man. Stay safe.
Will, thank you for sharing your early life with us. The tree fortresses were wonderful. I loved climbing trees as a kid. I still do, but I ain't a kid. This might have been your best video yet. Thanks, buddy.
Very cool. I grew up there as well. Always wondered what happened to the folks that had the pizza place there. Best bread sticks I’ve ever had! Only mistake in the video was Travco. That wasn’t the correct factory. The one you showed was the old Explorer factory on M 90. Travco was the complex on Maple Valley Rd.
I grew up literally around the corner from you. The far end of the swamp butted against the back of our property. It's too bad you couldn't have come back in the summer to show the tree lined roads. Nice video!
Will thanks for sharing so interesting and great filming. Wonderful so see how life was for you in a small town in the US. Much love to you both from the Uk xx
Love your story Will. I am a fellow Michigander (from Novi area). We have been vacationing in Gatlinburg at least once a year since 2011 when our exchange student from Germany lived with us and we took her down there on vacation for the first time. We are coming to Gatlinburg again tomorrow for a week with another friend I actually met on You Tube! So excited cause even though I live in MI, my heart is in TN!!! 😊👍🏻
Thank you for sharing this about the fallen firefighters Memorial in your hometown. I happened to have visited New York city in June of 2002. We did a tour on a double deck bus. The driver had pulled over and we were fortunate enough to witness the last load being removed from ground zero with a escort. Needless to say very emotional.
Wow!!!! I surely enjoyed ur childhood hangouts. Not many people can actually say they climbed so high in a tree you could almost touch the sky lol all that beautiful land and oh my those graveled dirt roads ....And to top it all off you mentioned those party lines on the telephone..omgoodness thank you for taking me down Memory lane with you and Mrs Dawn.
Love you guys videos! Thanks for the work you do. Heading to Gatlinburg for my birthday. First week of September 2020. Your reviews have helped my planning a lot. Thanks again
How neat. Thanks for sharing that part of your life! We moved to TN 4 years ago when we retired, from Illinois. I will always think of it as home but I have no desire to leave Tn We are very happy here. . Just wish we had moved here when we were younger. I think the older we get the more we think about our youth! Looking forward to Dawn’s story!
@@200x-v4k Here in Murfreesboro Tn we are getting lots of people moving in from California, Illinois, Michigan (Will) Ha , and several other states. I know why we and many others left Illinois. They tax everything and they are high. We moved to Tn , built a new house at triple the value of our house in Il and our property taxes are half on our new house than they were up there on a 50 year old house. The saying is : Illinois, the state where your former Governor makes your license plate in prison! LOL and it’s true!
Thanks for sharing the home town where you grew up reminiscing about things you and your friends did.The 911 Memorial was nice. I’m still living in my small town and house that I grew up in.Enjoyed this vlog 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Thank you for sharing. I also grew up in Michigan and really appreciated seeing where you grew up Will. I live in Virginia now and have visited the Great Smokey Mountains a couple of times and just love it there. I'm looking forward to your story too Dawn! You guys are genuine and it's refreshing to see and hear ....and it's just nice to be a part of that....God Bless you ....:)
Thank you both for sharing. I have been waiting to hear your stories one day. Wow, what a special connection to the Great Smokys. Definently like you were suppose to end up there all along.
Thank you for sharing. My family chose to visit Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburg area again in 2021 - so see you there!! My daughter works at the University of Tennessee Hospital and lives in Maryville.
Hey Will and Dawn! I grew up in Dryden Michigan and my husband grew up in Lapeer! We also moved to Tennessee in 2003 ! My grandparents are from the south on the western side of Tennessee! I always felt I belonged here since I was little, now here we are couldn't be happier!
I’m from generations in the south. I could never imagine leaving my home moving across the country. But seems nobody wants the north, at least not very long. Even when then are from generations from there. It mystifies us Southerners how people from the north leave their homes
I loved going down memory lane with you. I grew up in a small mill village with my grandmother and mom for a time when my dad was serving in Middle East. Loved the little houses, the kids, the city pool and watching your vid. It was comforting.
Yes thank you very much for sharing Michigan with us... I visited the up and absolutely fell in love with it.. that I came back again and then covert started and they told me I had to go back home and I hadn't been in Montana for years... I'm going to make one more attempt to move to Michigan and this time they'll never be able to tell me to leave cuz I always want to be there again because when I was a little kid we spent a lot of time up in Michigan and I really missed it very much... I just got tired of moving all over the western United States.. thank you so much for sharing your hometown TH-cam is a blessing in a lot of ways one of us folks love having friends and meeting people... And I've done my exploring and I sure fell in love with escanaba and Hiawatha and other areas in Michigan too.... It just made me feel better being there it really made me feel better being here.. your hometown special.. and we're all from special places our country is absolutely beautiful
This was a fantastic video absolutely loved this. What a great small town which I love. See all those dirty vehicles that's what mine looks like because I too live on a dirt road,even though your dirt road looks better than mine. Anyway I know it was a little bit nostalgic going back home and seeing everything as an adult.
This video is awesome going back to a place in time growing up that probably seems like a lifetime ago... seeing where you left your mark literally 😂 carved into trees...nailed into trees! 😂 sure was a rural flat looking small town...funny how over time things change and these places and time can become a distant sweet memory...😊🐛🦋Thanks for sharing the bumpy back roads from which you came 😊😁😂👍
Thanks so much for sharing your life with us. It's always interesting finding out how people got to where they are today. I now know why you love the Smokies sooo much!! God Bless you both. PS: (Can't wait to see Dawn's hometown video)!!
This is my favorite video you ever made it reminds me so much of Almont in Lapeer County where my family are from the muirs I love that dirt road it reminds me of riding bikes down the old dirt road you should check out the smoke house in Almont a half a mile from where my grandfather grew up
Ahhh. Home sweet home in Michigan. I cant say I ever went through Brown City growing up. Most people associate Michigan with the Detroit Metro area. Growing up in Mt. Clemens, that is exactly what I associate my childhood with. Urban sprawl. Brown City is much prettier. It would be fun to travel the state once again during the summer to see some of the historical spots. The western part of the state being my favorite places to go. Traverse City, Sleeping Bear dunes, and Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Muskegon where I spent 2 weeks every summer in band camp as well as 1 month in Scandinavia on exchange back in the late 80's. Many good memories. Watching your video is is always amazing to see how flat Michigan really is. It is this reality that has created a "calling" towards the mountains. I am sure you feel the same magic visiting the Smokies as I did when seeing them for the first time. It is hard to explain it. And perhaps there is no word for that calling. Unfortunately, to make a living, our home is in North Carolina along the Piedmont 2 hours away from the mountains. So I must accept the reality of "visiting" the Smokies when time permits. I am glad you were able to chase your dream and actually live there on the Tennessee side of the Appalachians. As you say, Michigan will always be our roots, but the South is our home. I wish you well and hope to meet you sometime.
Will, you grew up in even a smaller town than I did which is Athens, Alabama. My town had a town square that looked exactly like the one in “Back to the Future” with the clock and everything. Lol Life sure was a lot simpler back then. I used to go to my grandma’s house out in the country. I’d climb trees and swing on vines. Played in the ditch digging up rocks. I was definitely a Tom boy back then. Had all kinds of fun with my neighborhood kids. We’d play hide and go seek, kickball, and jump on our trampoline. In a way, I think all of us in the USA had similar childhoods especially if you lived in a small town. We probably had the same games like light brite, monopoly, and twister,etc. You’re younger than I am though. Many blessings to you and Dawn. You guys are extraordinary people and for that I’m grateful! Much love in Christ! 💕🙏❤️😇
My Sweetie was born in Michigan and was a substitute teacher at the Brown City HS before he ended up in Florida, where we met and ended up moving to Townsend, TN 3 years ago!
I'm from Brown City too. Grew up on Second Street. You may know my family. LOL And guess what I too also live in Tennessee. I live in Greeneville/Baileyton. I showed my boyfriend your video and now he would like to go up to Brown City and see where I grew up at. Since he has shown me around where he has grown up here in Tennessee.
Will- I really enjoyed your life story. I also honor you saving money over the years to get your place in the Smokies. That is very rare these days. I did the same thing working and saving and finally buying a house in GA. You and Dawn seem to be good down to earth folks from the Midwest much like my wife and I. We wish you the best and enjoy your videos.
Will thank you for sharing your life of where you grew up and how you moved to Tennessee. We love this video. Tennessee is a beautiful place to be and we can't blame you for moving there. William
I know Brown City & Port Huron. My husband has been selling power washers in both those towns for 45 years. We live in farm country west of Saginaw. We have been to Pigeon Forge & Gatlinburg & it’s beautiful. But there’s no place like my Michigan.
I sure enjoyed your trip,all your childhood memories. I know I sure miss my childhood home,and memories,it’s a piece of all of us that will never leave,some good,some not so good,but hey it’s what built us😊 I’ve never been to Michigan,I’ve bought Michigan Christmas Trees 🎄 in the past,they smell so good! Miss the Smokies,I haven’t been in 10 years now,gotta get back! Y’all are such a sweet,precious couple❤️ I was born in Mobile,Alabama,but I’ve lived in South Mississippi most of my life! Look forward to seeing Dawn’s childhood,later my friends 🥰💓🙋🏻♀️
WOW Will...thank you so much for sharing your childhood memories! I loved how you decided to make the Smokies your future.
When I was 8 years old, I did a study on East Tennessee and the Smokies. I fell in love with Tennessee so much that I had decided that I wanted a cabin tucked away in the smokies when I grew up. I told my Dad about my childhood dream and he said “A thousand mile journey begins with the first step” and he handed me my first $5 bill to put towards my cabin. Well, that’s all it took for me to start saving my money. With all the money I had saved beginning at the age of 8, I bought a cabin in Wears Valley, Tennessee in 2003.
I am now 51 years old and I still have my childhood dream in which will become my retirement home very soon. As for now though, I wanted to share my cabin with the world, so it’s on a vacation rental program as a nightly rental. 😊
Thank you for sharing Gina
Why so far from Michigan?
Hi Will and Dawn. I very much enjoyed this video with a glimpse into your past. I love rural farm land. I am sure it was a very good childhood there.
Thank you so much!
Dang Im kinda teary eyed watching u talk about your home and memories... Im 42 and thinking of the 80s that were so simple and just playing outside till dinner time makes me smile. Thank you Will
Same here!! l was born in 1979 near travere city, MI and I moved the middle TN in 2002 now I'm in Destin, Florida but we still go to the smokies two or three times a year. And Michigan will always be in my heart!! Wow I was really moved by this video thanks.
You guys are amazing and definitely my inspiration! You are examples of what I wish everyone would be. Kind, genuine and caring. Would love to be your neighbor!!!!!
Thank you for sharing your story. Great video!!! We love the Smokies too. I have a t-shirt that reads.....The mountains are calling and I must go. So true.
Thank you both for sharing this video with everyone. It was nice to see where you grew up Will. Also, thank you for showing us the fire fighters Memorial site. 911 was a very sad day for America and the rest of the world. I can't wait to see where Dawn grew up. Love you both. God bless
Will and Dawn - I really enjoyed seeing this. I teared up a few times and it made me remember my childhood as well. You both are the sweetest people on the planet.
Thank you for sharing Brown City. I'm originally from Michigan too and it is a beautiful state. Now live in Florida and get to the Smokies at least a couple of times a year. My mom just loves your videos. She is probably your oldest viewer; she will be 101 in March. Can't wait to show her this video.
That is really cool thank you for sharing Calee
Almost everyone who grows up in northern states make a goal to move south We can’t imagine leaving our homes Why so many people in the north leave the north?
This is crazy, I been following your channel for a while, I’m also from Michigan and grew up in Florida. I’m looking for a high school baseball coach job in Michigan, Brown,City, MI is looking for a JV coach so I came to TH-cam to look the city up. Your chat was the first thing that came up, small world. Your friend Donnie
Will...thanks for sharing this video. We really enjoyed your trip down memory lane! It is said that you can’t go home again, maybe that’s true, but it is sure nice to visit once in a while. Keep these videos coming! We are proud of you guys!
Awesome! Will, this was amazing to watch, and I thoroughly enjoyed seeing your hometown! Loved it💗 Thank you for sharing!
Will & Dawn, So very sorry about hearing Honey bear passed away. You & Dawn are in all my thoughts and prayers 🙏. I loved Honey Bear, she was beautiful & very precious. This is Mable Owens.
Will i thought i grew up in a small town but brother you got me beat😬and i think it's awesome you was conceived in Gatlinburg you are officially a true southerner , love your and dawns story 👍👍
I grew up traveling to a little town in Michigan called Dowagiac for two weeks every summer to help my cousins in the Cass County Fair. Love the story.
I used to pick up bottles too. Worth 10 cents apiece in Louisiana in the 70’s. Bought a lot of candy and stuff with that money. Thanks for the memories.
That was fun a Will, thanks for sharing your story. Very nice first home and wonderful firefighters memorial. Can’t wait to hear Dawns story later.
I'm looking forward to hearing Dawn's story as well 😉
Me tooooo
Please please. I love Dawn!!!
Does anyone know how long they've been married and how old they are?
Yes,let’s hear Dawn’s story
It was great to see parts of Michigan, some people think it’s just big city and run down parts but there’s a lot of Dairy farmers all over the place
I loved this video..what a nice quiet little town..you had a really nice first home..thanks for sharing your younger years with us..what a great memorial piece from 9/11..thanks Will.
Thanks for sharing this history. We moved to Cadillac from Southern Oregon so we appreciate your comment about the cold. We've been in Cadillac since 1977 so have gotten used to this weather, but really fell in love with the Smokies a few years ago. We have friends that live there (Rick and Tommy Mohr that operate a custom knife shop right outside Smokey Mountain Knifeworks.)
Beautiful memorial
Liked seeing your hometown and especially the 9/11 memorial. The town really showed its heart by making the memorial so special. We are a firefighting family so it really touched me. I grew up in a town without a stoplight too-in KY. My family went to Gatlinburg 3 or 4 times a year too. It will always be special to me and I try to get there at least once a year now. Thanks for showing what's new there and some of the smaller places that we might overlook. Dawn seems like the kind of person who has a good time wherever she is. Your a lucky man. Stay safe.
thanks for another great show good to see you back in your home town and sharing your boyhood to manhood with us and taking all of us back n time
Will, thank you for sharing your early life with us. The tree fortresses were wonderful. I loved climbing trees as a kid. I still do, but I ain't a kid. This might have been your best video yet. Thanks, buddy.
Thanks Ray
Very cool. I grew up there as well. Always wondered what happened to the folks that had the pizza place there. Best bread sticks I’ve ever had! Only mistake in the video was Travco. That wasn’t the correct factory. The one you showed was the old Explorer factory on M 90. Travco was the complex on Maple Valley Rd.
Great video loved your history. Sad part is in 100 years when they rewrite history that memorial will offend someone and will be removed.
I grew up literally around the corner from you. The far end of the swamp butted against the back of our property. It's too bad you couldn't have come back in the summer to show the tree lined roads. Nice video!
Will thanks for sharing so interesting and great filming. Wonderful so see how life was for you in a small town in the US. Much love to you both from the Uk xx
Love your story Will. I am a fellow Michigander (from Novi area). We have been vacationing in Gatlinburg at least once a year since 2011 when our exchange student from Germany lived with us and we took her down there on vacation for the first time. We are coming to Gatlinburg again tomorrow for a week with another friend I actually met on You Tube! So excited cause even though I live in MI, my heart is in TN!!! 😊👍🏻
Awesome video! When you watch people on TH-cam, one often wonders what their backstory is. This is great! Thanks for sharing!!
I loved this. You are so generous to share your story and introduce us to your childhood. Thank you so much xxx
Thank you so much for sharing your memories. I really enjoyed watching .
Thank you for sharing this about the fallen firefighters Memorial in your hometown. I happened to have visited New York city in June of 2002. We did a tour on a double deck bus. The driver had pulled over and we were fortunate enough to witness the last load being removed from ground zero with a escort. Needless to say very emotional.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us Linda
Thanks for sharing a part of your life with everyone. Really enjoyed watching
Thank you Will and Dawn for this video. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Looking forward to seeing Dawn's next.
Wow!!!! I surely enjoyed ur childhood hangouts. Not many people can actually say they climbed so high in a tree you could almost touch the sky lol all that beautiful land and oh my those graveled dirt roads ....And to top it all off you mentioned those party lines on the telephone..omgoodness thank you for taking me down Memory lane with you and Mrs Dawn.
Thank you for sharing your story. Even though it wasn't a vlog about the great Smoky mountains, I enjoyed it tremendously.
Nice video, Will. Sweet of you for sharing. Sounds similar to my life as a kid in rural Mississippi!!
Great documentary Will. My upbringing was pretty similar in rural Ohio. Thanks for sharing!
You are such an inspiration to me Will! You and Dawn are two of the best people I have ever met!
Thank you Charming Charlie
Love you guys videos! Thanks for the work you do. Heading to Gatlinburg for my birthday. First week of September 2020. Your reviews have helped my planning a lot. Thanks again
Thank You for sharing your childhood and your early years of an adult! Very nicely done!! 👍🤗♥️
Thanks Kim
Thanks for showing me this video about your hometown Will
No problem 👍
How neat. Thanks for sharing that part of your life! We moved to TN 4 years ago when we retired, from Illinois. I will always think of it as home but I have no desire to leave Tn We are very happy here. . Just wish we had moved here when we were younger. I think the older we get the more we think about our youth!
Looking forward to Dawn’s story!
Just curious. Why do so many people from northern states move to the South?
@@200x-v4k Here in Murfreesboro Tn we are getting lots of people moving in from California, Illinois, Michigan (Will) Ha , and several other states. I know why we and many others left Illinois. They tax everything and they are high. We moved to Tn , built a new house at triple the value of our house in Il and our property taxes are half on our new house than they were up there on a 50 year old house.
The saying is : Illinois, the state where your former Governor makes your license plate in prison! LOL and it’s true!
Thank you Will for sharing your past life with us . Young life is so different than now. Memories are the best!!
Thanks for the video. My old hometown as well. I do miss it sometimes. I remember going into the pizza place with my dad as a kid. He knew your dad.
Cool 😎
Thanks for sharing the home town where you grew up reminiscing about things you and your friends did.The 911 Memorial was nice. I’m still living in my small town and house that I grew up in.Enjoyed this vlog 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Thank you for sharing this.. It was interesting.. our youngest son would just love those tree forts. 😎👍
Nice share Will and Dawn!! Awesome to see and hear about where you are from! ~Dawn
Thank you for sharing. I also grew up in Michigan and really appreciated seeing where you grew up Will. I live in Virginia now and have visited the Great Smokey Mountains a couple of times and just love it there. I'm looking forward to your story too Dawn! You guys are genuine and it's refreshing to see and hear ....and it's just nice to be a part of that....God Bless you ....:)
Thank you both for sharing. I have been waiting to hear your stories one day. Wow, what a special connection to the Great Smokys. Definently like you were suppose to end up there all along.
Thanks for sharing your story Will.It was a nice one.
Thank you for sharing. My family chose to visit Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburg area again in 2021 - so see you there!! My daughter works at the University of Tennessee Hospital and lives in Maryville.
Hey Will and Dawn! I grew up in Dryden Michigan and my husband grew up in Lapeer! We also moved to Tennessee in 2003 ! My grandparents are from the south on the western side of Tennessee! I always felt I belonged here since I was little, now here we are couldn't be happier!
Thank you for sharing Karen
I’m from generations in the south. I could never imagine leaving my home moving across the country. But seems nobody wants the north, at least not very long. Even when then are from generations from there. It mystifies us Southerners how people from the north leave their homes
Will, I enjoyed your sories of growing up in your hometown and with all the history there. Thanks for letting us see this. I really enjoyed it!
Thanks! My dad was a Michigan guy, met my mama in Mississippi, and never went back to live! That's why I'm a southern girl!
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Hi Will!thank u for this personal video,I grew up on a dairy farm in VT.this reminds me a bit of my growing up. :-)
Great story, Will, of your hometown...so interesting...I really enjoyed you sharing it.
Loved your walk down memory lane!😊
Looking forward to Dawn’s also!
God Bless🙏
Awesome video!! I love small towns! Reminds me of the town I grew up in!
I loved going down memory lane with you. I grew up in a small mill village with my grandmother and mom for a time when my dad was serving in Middle East. Loved the little houses, the kids, the city pool and watching your vid. It was comforting.
It is always nice to take a trip down memory lane. It was nice to experience yours. Great video.
Wow, that’s really neat! I enjoyed that. Thanks for sharing!
What a beautiful maple tree 🍁🌲 you planted ; it’s huge! 😲
Oh wow, great, can't wait to watch this! Thanks so much for sharing!!
Loved your story of growing up,reminds me a lot of my growing up years.
Really cool! Thanks, For me pagers were the thing when I was in High School...I was the first to get a cell phone in the house at 19 years old.
I enjoyed seeing the town where you grew up. Seeing that WTC beam was very sobering. Thanks for sharing!
Yes thank you very much for sharing Michigan with us... I visited the up and absolutely fell in love with it.. that I came back again and then covert started and they told me I had to go back home and I hadn't been in Montana for years... I'm going to make one more attempt to move to Michigan and this time they'll never be able to tell me to leave cuz I always want to be there again because when I was a little kid we spent a lot of time up in Michigan and I really missed it very much... I just got tired of moving all over the western United States.. thank you so much for sharing your hometown TH-cam is a blessing in a lot of ways one of us folks love having friends and meeting people... And I've done my exploring and I sure fell in love with escanaba and Hiawatha and other areas in Michigan too.... It just made me feel better being there it really made me feel better being here.. your hometown special.. and we're all from special places our country is absolutely beautiful
This was a fantastic video absolutely loved this. What a great small town which I love. See all those dirty vehicles that's what mine looks like because I too live on a dirt road,even though your dirt road looks better than mine. Anyway I know it was a little bit nostalgic going back home and seeing everything as an adult.
I live near Birch Run and know exactly where you grew up! My wife and I love driving backroads of Michigan.
Very touching video Will!! Reminiscing is so special!! Thanks for sharing!!🙂💜👍
This video is awesome going back to a place in time growing up that probably seems like a lifetime ago... seeing where you left your mark literally 😂 carved into trees...nailed into trees! 😂 sure was a rural flat looking small town...funny how over time things change and these places and time can become a distant sweet memory...😊🐛🦋Thanks for sharing the bumpy back roads from which you came 😊😁😂👍
Thanks so much for sharing your life with us. It's always interesting finding out how people got to where they are today. I now know why you love the Smokies sooo much!! God Bless you both. PS: (Can't wait to see Dawn's hometown video)!!
Thanks for video cant wait to see where dawn grew up ✝️🇺🇸👍 god bless and stay safe
This is my favorite video you ever made it reminds me so much of Almont in Lapeer County where my family are from the muirs I love that dirt road it reminds me of riding bikes down the old dirt road you should check out the smoke house in Almont a half a mile from where my grandfather grew up
Ahhh. Home sweet home in Michigan. I cant say I ever went through Brown City growing up. Most people associate Michigan with the Detroit Metro area. Growing up in Mt. Clemens, that is exactly what I associate my childhood with. Urban sprawl. Brown City is much prettier. It would be fun to travel the state once again during the summer to see some of the historical spots. The western part of the state being my favorite places to go. Traverse City, Sleeping Bear dunes, and Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Muskegon where I spent 2 weeks every summer in band camp as well as 1 month in Scandinavia on exchange back in the late 80's. Many good memories. Watching your video is is always amazing to see how flat Michigan really is. It is this reality that has created a "calling" towards the mountains. I am sure you feel the same magic visiting the Smokies as I did when seeing them for the first time. It is hard to explain it. And perhaps there is no word for that calling. Unfortunately, to make a living, our home is in North Carolina along the Piedmont 2 hours away from the mountains. So I must accept the reality of "visiting" the Smokies when time permits. I am glad you were able to chase your dream and actually live there on the Tennessee side of the Appalachians. As you say, Michigan will always be our roots, but the South is our home. I wish you well and hope to meet you sometime.
Thanks will & dawn for another great video enjoy all your videos can’t wait for the next one
Thank you!! It’s nice to see the area you grew up in!!
Will, you grew up in even a smaller town than I did which is Athens, Alabama. My town had a town square that looked exactly like the one in “Back to the Future” with the clock and everything. Lol Life sure was a lot simpler back then. I used to go to my grandma’s house out in the country. I’d climb trees and swing on vines. Played in the ditch digging up rocks. I was definitely a Tom boy back then. Had all kinds of fun with my neighborhood kids. We’d play hide and go seek, kickball, and jump on our trampoline. In a way, I think all of us in the USA had similar childhoods especially if you lived in a small town. We probably had the same games like light brite, monopoly, and twister,etc. You’re younger than I am though. Many blessings to you and Dawn. You guys are extraordinary people and for that I’m grateful! Much love in Christ! 💕🙏❤️😇
Great video Will. It is nice to know more about you! It’s hard to not be emotional when any of us reminisce
Thank you Dreaming Out loud RVing
My Sweetie was born in Michigan and was a substitute teacher at the Brown City HS before he ended up in Florida, where we met and ended up moving to Townsend, TN 3 years ago!
Thanks for sharing
Very nice vrdeo guys, takes me back to my hometown too!💖💖
Loved the video! Thank you so much for sharing part of your past with us. Looking forward to seeing Dawn’s video! Love you guys!!!!
Thanks for sharing some of your history with us. You guys are good people and I enjoy watching you on TH-cam. Thanks for sharing.
I'm from Brown City too. Grew up on Second Street. You may know my family. LOL And guess what I too also live in Tennessee. I live in Greeneville/Baileyton. I showed my boyfriend your video and now he would like to go up to Brown City and see where I grew up at. Since he has shown me around where he has grown up here in Tennessee.
Thank you for sharing Connie
Just started watching all your video's and I love them ...I think you all are such a sweet couple ....keep those video's coming :)
Thank you for sharing your past memories with us. I truly enjoyed learning a little bit more about you.
Will- I really enjoyed your life story. I also honor you saving money over the years to get your place in the Smokies. That is very rare these days. I did the same thing working and saving and finally buying a house in GA. You and Dawn seem to be good down to earth folks from the Midwest much like my wife and I. We wish you the best and enjoy your videos.
Absolutely loved this video. Always so interesting to learn about people’s backgrounds. I’m amazed at the beam from the World Trade Center 🇺🇸 ❤️
Will thank you for sharing your life of where you grew up and how you moved to Tennessee. We love this video. Tennessee is a beautiful place to be and we can't blame you for moving there. William
Thanks 😊
@@yankeeinthesouth Hi Will I couldn't find the link to see the video of where Dawn is from. Could you please forward it to me. Thanks William
Ty for sharing your story Will awesome to get to know you a little bit sledgehammered that like button stay awsome be blessed
OMG love this vid.. we had very similar childhoods as kids... hope yous remember me
I know Brown City & Port Huron. My husband has been selling power washers in both those towns for 45 years. We live in farm country west of Saginaw. We have been to Pigeon Forge & Gatlinburg & it’s beautiful. But there’s no place like my Michigan.
Great editing and music as always Will & Dawn. Beautiful area! Too bad it’s so cold. Thank you for sharing your story with all of us ❤️
Nice Vlog Will and Dawn.....watching from the west end of lake Erie.....home of your Jeep.....
Thank you for sharing your story Will. I appreciate you letting us in brotha!
Will your trip down memory lane really brought back a lot of memories for me ,,,thanks pal.
I sure enjoyed your trip,all your childhood memories. I know I sure miss my childhood home,and memories,it’s a piece of all of us that will never leave,some good,some not so good,but hey it’s what built us😊 I’ve never been to Michigan,I’ve bought Michigan Christmas Trees 🎄 in the past,they smell so good! Miss the Smokies,I haven’t been in 10 years now,gotta get back! Y’all are such a sweet,precious couple❤️ I was born in Mobile,Alabama,but I’ve lived in South Mississippi most of my life! Look forward to seeing Dawn’s childhood,later my friends 🥰💓🙋🏻♀️
Thank u will show your home town I enjoy watching
It's always neat hearing people's stories. I'm a writer. Great little trip thru your back story... Aka memory lane.