Thank you for showing me some great memories and I used to hang around with my Grammy fly next door to the union church and my mom lives on north haven Road accoss the pond and I moved off because of family issues and the stupid wind mills is the reason why I left my home town

Thank you Billy you made me go home to visit.. Went over night made my time in town but most was spent at Browns Head Light

I used to live out there and thank you for sharing

The description you wrote for this video is wonderful. Thank you for sharing part of your story and best to you for so many more fantastic life adventures and memories to come! Onward!

This video is great and you chose the perfect music for it. So beautiful there-can't wait to see it in person.

@andrewpereira5020

4 ай бұрын

You won’t be disappointed

@wjd329

3 ай бұрын

Thank you!

This is a wonderful video ! I too grew up on Vinalhaven and also have been away for over 50 years comming back only a few times. Last time was to spread my mom's ashes in 2006. Memories of peopleand places now gone. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

13:31 all the cut granite from the quarries, what Vinalhaven is was famous for wonder if they still have the Eagle in the town center from the old Penn station in New York before they refurbished it

@lexzee1446

11 ай бұрын

The eagle is on the left at 04:01

Now your gonna make me cry, i grew up Vinalhaven till '79, My dad was the Browns Head Lighthouse keeper back in 70's.. Ive got loads of memories i can speak.. 1 i can remember back ooh age 5,6 i was dressed as a Coast Guard Keeper towing a little radio flyer wagon w a lighthouse my dad built in it w a flashing light.. My mom & dad passed in 2020/21 but this is where my heart is at always has always will.. If i ever won powerball i always said id buy Browns Head Light and throw all the money at it and fix it up..I have a tattoo on my left forearm of Browns Head Light did it in honor of my mom & dad.. R.i.p. Mom & Pops thank you for the adventure of a lifetime..

@andrewpereira5020

4 ай бұрын

It is being restored and about to open as a B & B, knowing Nick Korstad, it will be an experience not to be missed.

@JohnBaxter-kn5zf

4 ай бұрын

@andrewpereira5020 Nice!!! you know Nick I'd love to meet him in person and shake his hand for it.. Ive just talked w him by e mail.. I'm gonna try and keep Brown's Head mowed this summer.. My time as a kid there I'll never forget.. Best time in my life.. I got tons of pics of it sunrises, sunsets, day photo's.. Wish I could post them here..

@LeighSGetchellGatto

Күн бұрын

I used to live out there and it brought me in tears of seeing old memories and u usually find me at my grammyfly house accross the union church and that building is all torn down now and I miss it out there and seeing my mom old house where I grew up and boy I sure miss my home town @jonbaxter-kn5zf and dawn swears is my mom 14:33

@LeighSGetchellGatto

Күн бұрын

I miss my old childhood home town my mom dawn swears and it really hit hard for me seeing my Grammy fly house and I know that building is no longer there after she passed away her name was florice young aka Grammy fly and she was the amazing woman and everyone knows her as the laundry lady or the parade narze

@LeighSGetchellGatto

Күн бұрын

@@andrewpereira5020 my mom told me it’s not going to be restored it’s going to be the new flea market space and the bed and breakfast is being restored like every year and there’s alot of old history and the budgets been cut a lot more than people know about

My dad’s families from there we’re related to Hollis, Hopkins, and Bubba is my cousin. He drives the fairy miss spending time there.

My brother and I really appreciate this video. We'd neither one of us trade anything for the times we had on Vinalhaven back in 1971. Thanks for refreshing our memories, as we're 65 and 68 yrs old now do it's been awhile ago our Dad pastored the Community church. How lucky people are that have gotten to spend their entire lives there!

@JohnBaxter-kn5zf

11 ай бұрын

My dad was Browns Head Lighthouse keeper back in 70's.. I now have a tattoo on my left forearm of Browns Head Light.. Vinalhavens where I grew up Vinalhaven will always be my home

Home sweet home

@jeromepatton8142

Жыл бұрын

YOU FROM THERE BEAUTIFUL PLACE

@timoakes2685

Жыл бұрын

My father was born and raised on the island. I go back at least once a year. My Daughter lives on the island now and my wife and I have an old house on Mountain Street. It is an absolutely beautiful place.

Thank you, I dont know who you are. Love you.

I was born and brought up in the Rumford/Dixfield Maine area. Moved to Vinalhaven with my late husband who died in 2011. He was only on the island for a very short time, but during that time he grew to love the island. I have remained on Vinalhaven, living here for 13 years now. It is the most beautiful place that I have ever seen. I am very blessed to be able to live and experience what residing on an island is all about. I am fortunate to have right off my living room beautiful views of Carver's Harbor and I'm right on the water. It is complete heaven! I hope to live out my life on this beautiful island called Vinalhaven. The saying "If once you have slept on an island, you'll never be quite the same" is so true.

@bryansmith1881

10 ай бұрын

Mrs.White?

@LeighSGetchellGatto

Күн бұрын

@@doglady3350 I moved off Vinalhaven when I turned 13 because of family issues and my mom wanted to have me with my biological father Wayne getchell and you know how Vinalhaven is every one getting into each other’s business and folks got to know that where my grammyfly fly used to live across from the church they are not going to be rebuilding it they are turning it into a new flea market place or a nursing facility and the budget cuts didn’t approve it and the person back out and even though I don’t live there anymore I still get the gossip and it was up to the last person choice that lives on the block and by law they do have to obey the dying wishes and the old French men who had 6 daughters had a walk through stairwell so they can visit with each other and it’s the same person who built the true story of extorise of Emily rose in Lewiston Maine where I’m stationed right now and it’s only 5 minutes away from st. Marys hospital and I have watched the zoom meeting on the budget meeting and everyone needs to start thinking about the good times on helping each other out and boy Vinalhaven has changed so much and I used to do everything on Vinalhaven and some of you guys probably remember me I’m dawn swears daughter and half of the time I was over to Grammy flys and Grammy and papa house and aunt Peggy house and I used to live with my Grammy fly and was in charge of her stuff since I was the last one who lived on the block and a lot of people didn’t know that Joe gatto aka Jim Gibbs from Sweester and impractical jokers and golden girls and three stoogies all connected with each other because my nana was on the golden girls and she married the boys grandpas and the very first episode of three stooges was filmed on the charlotte horse field and orrren Timothy swears was very good friends with gene Autry and so they’re history and people should pay more attention and never thought about information about Vinalhaven and I was to busy being bullied and so no one got to hear about the cool information and orren caseload and 3 others cases are combined with each other and it was max Harris aka donnie smith wanna be didn’t even care about his best friend at all and to let everyone know he never went to rehab and it sucks how so many kids have died out there after when everybody keeps following me and it’s the island that really makes it safe by stop being noisy and be there for others in need just like the old armish country folks do for each other and when I hear people say Vinalhaven not safe the ones who left where the ones who turned everything down and that’s not like the town I was raised and it hurt me so much and some of the islands are utube farms now

@LeighSGetchellGatto

Күн бұрын

@@bryansmith1881 why does that name sound familiar to me

Damn. if that doesn't bring a tear to one's eye, I don't know what will, and I've never even been to Vinalhaven.

@LeighSGetchellGatto

Күн бұрын

@@HeritageWealthPlanning if you have any questions just ask me because I grew up on there and was happy to see my mom house and my other house I live with my grandma house

Thank you! I have been fascinated with "the island life" since I got to stay and work on Madeline Island for a year. Unfortunately I had to leave but regardless I have been looking for other places similar to there. This place looks bigger and I wish I could visit some day.

Hey Billy I am your cousin Stacey My parents are Alan and Vivian Merritt. Man seeing this video brought so many memories of being there and spending time with my Aunt Ann and Uncle Delly. I hope you are doing well. I live in North Port Florida I have lived in Florida since 2005. It was really awesome to see Vinalhaven again in this Video I will always cherish those memories. RIP uncle Delly.

@wjd329

3 ай бұрын

Hi Stacey! Sending love to you! 😊

some damn good rubber autograuphs on those roads.

@LeighSGetchellGatto

Күн бұрын

@@richbororust7448 it’s the crazy four wheelers and or when I know my dad uncle Mickey had to burn rubber on getting after my brother orren doing something stupid like hillbilly kids do jumping off their bikes in the quarry holes and the best time in go in there is 100% weather or mid august is the best weather to go in like bath tub water and just a warning in the turtle hole near the heading to the deep end near the ramp is everyone’s pee break section that’s why there’s so much allergy there oops I couldn’t keep it a secret anymore lolz and wait until Halloween time dust to dust there’s a old captian will place his anchor on his wife grave on the cavers harbor pound and me my sister ginger used to look over there accoss the pound we call it orren cove in a memory of him there a sprit will pop out of the grave yard at 1:11 in the morning on Halloween night

Never been to Vinalhaven. I was raised on Peaks Island in Casco Bay. Vinalhaven looks huge compared to Peaks. Did you all have a school on it?

@wjd329

3 ай бұрын

Sure did. Only 9 in my graduating class. They’ve grown in size since 2000.

You can just imagine unspoiled happy children playing in that park.

@wjd329

3 ай бұрын

Yes! I used to be one of them. 😊

@LeighSGetchellGatto

Күн бұрын

@@andrewpereira5020 it was not really fun on getting your butt hurt and it’s kinda like a dangerous situation and I used to spend alot of my time there playing with my idiots cousin Charles victor McDonald my uncle and dad sister house and it’s where me and my sister hide out and had some cigarettes before we started smoking in front of my family

@LeighSGetchellGatto

Күн бұрын

@@wjd329 I used to live out there and hated when I had to play with my cousin Charles and Boy he was annoying with lord of the rings and stars wars was forced to watch it or go home

@LeighSGetchellGatto

Күн бұрын

I used to be getting wood out of my hands by aunt Sarah and pair of pants ripped from the slides and it seems that play ground hated me and the fun part was playing with my aunt Sara old cars and pretending to be race car drivers that family members took out the engine so we can play with it and that was a cool edition to the play ground area and until the fire marshal got to used it for training and being on the island you got to use your mind skills and be old fashioned thinking

@LeighSGetchellGatto

Күн бұрын

@@wjd329 I left the island at age 13 because of alot of family emergencies were happening in the swears household

Only bad thing that I can’t remember if it was a bitch getting off the island on that ferry boat