Dan Seavey, the Great Lakes Pirate

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  • Опубликовано: 21 янв 2025

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  • @TheHistoryGuyChannel
    @TheHistoryGuyChannel  2 года назад +173

    As many viewers have noted, Escanaba is on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, not Wisconsin. I apologize for the error.

    • @rabbi120348
      @rabbi120348 2 года назад +15

      As you pointed out in another episode (ruclips.net/video/TcJChM_DXPw/видео.html), Escanaba SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN WISCONSIN, but we was robbed!

    • @joedunleavy7066
      @joedunleavy7066 2 года назад +4

      It's all wilderness so it's hard to tell where one starts and one ends. Mich tried to give the UP to Wisconsin they replied we have enough wilderness

    • @LTDunltd
      @LTDunltd 2 года назад +11

      That's OK, We who grew up in the area understand. The best part is that you pronounced Peshtigo correctly this time.😁

    • @aprylrittenhouse4562
      @aprylrittenhouse4562 2 года назад +3

      @@LTDunltd I love it. I had a big smile when he did

    • @DaKnottyYooper
      @DaKnottyYooper 2 года назад +5

      You and your family (team, ahem) should take a trip up here and visit Escanaba. Well the whole Upper Peninsula really.
      Theres SO MUCH history for you to soak up from here in the U.P.,
      I swear you could turn it into it's own little mini series at the very least.
      From Escanaba, make sure to visit the jam making Monks in Copper Harbor. Yes. I said that right. They make amazing jams. Especially Thimbleberry!
      Go see an old Iron smelting town Called Fayette. It's really something to be inside one of those looking up. Plus waterfalls galore.
      You can see it all in a week, make some unforgettable memories and meet some really incredible people.
      Hopefully, I'll get to see THAT show someday. I promise, up here, its truly history that deserves to be remembered.

  • @Michigander269
    @Michigander269 2 года назад +100

    I'm a native Michigander and I enjoy all things great lakes related so thank you for this wonderful story!

    • @detroitredneckdetroitredne6674
      @detroitredneckdetroitredne6674 2 года назад

      Me2 94/275 🤗🌊✋️

    • @Zoofactory
      @Zoofactory 2 года назад +4

      Indeed. Since the great resignation, I’ve considered piracy on Gitche Gume as an alternative lifestyle. 💪

    • @kyle857
      @kyle857 2 года назад +1

      Same

    • @HM2SGT
      @HM2SGT 2 года назад +3

      Da Yoopers! 😻

    • @Michigander269
      @Michigander269 2 года назад

      She's a bit too vicious for me, and she never gives up her dead don't ya know? I only go out of sight of land when im crossing to Isle Royale lol

  • @williamwinter2638
    @williamwinter2638 2 года назад +100

    My grandmother lived in Garden Michigan. She had a story about Dan Seavey docking his boat near town and "There was all kinds of screaming and noise from the boat" her brothers went to investigate and when they saw it was "Old Dan Seavey " they new it was just better to leave them alone.

    • @sciencenate
      @sciencenate 2 года назад +2

      That’s about as boring a story as you could have shared. “My mother lived next to Einstein - one day he slammed the door. Nobody complained though - bc it was Einstein.”

    • @johnserrano9689
      @johnserrano9689 2 года назад

      @@sciencenate you're right Nate👍
      Hey tell everyone here about the Time your Boy Scout Leader came into your tent/sleeping bag with you

    • @00BillyTorontoBill
      @00BillyTorontoBill 2 года назад

      So youre grandmother grabbed a flask f rum and tip toed late that night and voila Mr winter Dad was born?

    • @erickrobertson7089
      @erickrobertson7089 2 года назад +12

      Dunno. I liked his story. I've been to the Garden peninsula. Nice area. Fayette is a interesting (ghost/park) town.
      I bet he was a wicked bastard too. Would not have wanted to cross paths with the likes of him.
      Of all the regions of all 50 states the UP has breed the most interesting, dogged and questionable people I've meet. The history up there is amazing.
      Fun fact... The copper rush in Michigan was more valuable dollar wise than the California gold rush. Part of the area is thick with iron. Jump in a puddle and your socks will be forever rust stained.

    • @MustangsTrainsMowers
      @MustangsTrainsMowers 2 года назад +7

      I like your story.

  • @jimfromm3981
    @jimfromm3981 2 года назад +14

    When I was in high school, I had a history teacher who found colorful characters and brought history to life in this manner. As a result, I became a lifelong history buff. I was born on the shores of Lake Superior. As a teen, I often walked the shores in the morning mist, and attribute the seduction of mirror smooth ground swells rolling against agate shores, for the wanderlust which lead me to become an Arctic and Antarctic Merchant Marine captain. Thank you a wonderful snapshot of Great Lakes history.

  • @GordonWLearn
    @GordonWLearn 2 года назад +15

    I am also a pirate on lake Michigan. Your report on Seavey was delightful.

  • @yepiratesworkshop7997
    @yepiratesworkshop7997 2 года назад +24

    I LOVED THIS!!! I absolutely loved this story. But then, again, I do drive a schooner with cannon on the Chesapeake Bay and dress more than a bit like a pirate. As Mark Twain once put it: "Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates." (from Life on the Mississippi) And to think I'm a retired judge!

  • @erinmcdonald7781
    @erinmcdonald7781 2 года назад +4

    What a colorful character!!! Pirates definitely make for good stories. They tend to be such unique, charismatic non-conformists, captivating and fascinating generations.

  • @whtbobwntsbobget
    @whtbobwntsbobget 2 года назад +1

    0:38 Wow that was one hell of a dramatic pause!

  • @cntrlrb20
    @cntrlrb20 2 года назад +9

    Please do more stories about the Great Lakes!

  • @DirtiestPotato
    @DirtiestPotato 2 года назад +18

    The Pirate story I didn't know that I needed today, Thanks History Guy!

  • @philvanderlaan5942
    @philvanderlaan5942 2 года назад +39

    I like how one of the pictures included was of the dynamite cruiser USS Vesuvius one of the US navy’s strangest combat vessels of the Spanish American war fame , a quirky goofy ship .

    • @marks1638
      @marks1638 2 года назад +5

      I'm glad to see I'm not one of the only Naval geeks to notice the USS Vesuvius.

    • @philvanderlaan5942
      @philvanderlaan5942 2 года назад +4

      @@marks1638 I spend way too much time watching Drachinifel’s channel

    • @richardbenjamin8341
      @richardbenjamin8341 2 года назад +2

      Good eye!

    • @johnking6252
      @johnking6252 Год назад

      That's what she said. 👍

  • @PracticalKen
    @PracticalKen 2 года назад +3

    I love the Lake Michigan history. Thanks for sharing.

  • @corporalvideo26
    @corporalvideo26 2 года назад +57

    If his life and adventures were made into a movie, the required; based on a true story, would have to be repeated more then once throughout the film. Larger than life seems a rather tame description. I loved it. Thank you.

    • @christopherpotts5681
      @christopherpotts5681 2 года назад +4

      I’d watch that movie!

    • @paulslevinsky580
      @paulslevinsky580 2 года назад

      @@christopherpotts5681 They already did the sequel. It's called "Deliverance". The banjo player is the forgotten love-child of the Butt Pirate and his sister.

  • @thezfunk
    @thezfunk 2 года назад +1

    Great Lakes Distillery in Milwaukee has a maple flavored rum named after him called Roaring Dan's Rum.

  • @davidphillips7321
    @davidphillips7321 2 года назад +3

    Yes, Lance All Good Stories involve Pirates...Thank You, Stay Safe... God Bless...

  • @brianstocks8049
    @brianstocks8049 2 года назад +3

    got to say, every episode is a gems and always makes me smile

  • @micksanger6274
    @micksanger6274 2 года назад +2

    Your stories are so enjoyable. Thank You.

  • @stevedietrich8936
    @stevedietrich8936 2 года назад +12

    Escanaba is in MIchigan

  • @Paul_Ch52
    @Paul_Ch52 2 года назад +1

    You really are a master teacher. Thank you.

  • @danischeel4846
    @danischeel4846 2 года назад +9

    Excellent presentation of a very colorful character!

  • @ericskoglund7543
    @ericskoglund7543 2 года назад +8

    You mentioned the storm of 1913. That would be a great tale to tell.

  • @billlorimer4065
    @billlorimer4065 2 года назад +1

    Escanaba is a town in Michigan’s UP and is yet to be claimed by Wisconsin. ;-)

  • @jamesthompson8008
    @jamesthompson8008 2 года назад +4

    Thank you for making this one, I'd never heard of it. Another well done video sir!!

  • @brucelytle1144
    @brucelytle1144 2 года назад +3

    And that's a good story!
    As a retired merchant seaman, and avid sailor, gotta say he's my kinda guy!

  • @ghostwriter2314
    @ghostwriter2314 2 года назад +2

    The great lakes are and always will be an exciting frontier. Bless all that have serve and survived the lakes.

  • @HemlockRidge
    @HemlockRidge 2 года назад +37

    Interesting that the US Navy ship, pictured around 1:45, is the one-off USS Vesuvius. On the bow are shown the three "Dynamite Guns", that make her so unusual.

    • @otpyrcralphpierre1742
      @otpyrcralphpierre1742 2 года назад +3

      Excellent observation! Thank you.

    • @zackakai5173
      @zackakai5173 2 года назад +5

      You have no idea how relieved I am that I'm not the only one here with that incredibly obscure bit of knowledge occupying space in their head for some reason 🤣

    • @HemlockRidge
      @HemlockRidge 2 года назад +4

      @@zackakai5173 Oh I have SO much useless trivia up there. I am seriously into History, particularly Military History. As a US Navy vet, there's a lot of Navy stuff.

  • @WiliiamNoTell
    @WiliiamNoTell 2 года назад +2

    Another great story. Thank you for sharing!

  • @tsmithkc
    @tsmithkc 2 года назад +14

    What a tale! Great episode!

  • @PlanetEarth3141
    @PlanetEarth3141 2 года назад +5

    This type of relatively small history within the larger context of national or world history is my favorite kind of history. Being more individualistic and personal it has a way of making it more intimate, more flavorful. I like this episode very much. It's humorous, twisty, fortunes and failures is an intriguing tale. While stories of pirates are quite tasty, stories of historical legends like King Arthur, Robinhood and a lesser extent, Dan Seavey, tickle my mind.

  • @JohnRoscoeYT
    @JohnRoscoeYT 2 года назад +3

    I love that you took the pirates catchphrase and ran with it!
    Put it on a Tee!

  • @thecreepynightshiftguy
    @thecreepynightshiftguy 2 года назад +4

    I spent a lot of time in Escanaba and even lived there for a few years. I've got to say, this Dan Seavey sounds like an upstanding fellow compared to most the folks you'd find there these days.

  • @justme8184
    @justme8184 2 года назад +1

    thank you for a tale from the area where I grew up...more stories from the area would be greatly appreciated

  • @davemason6870
    @davemason6870 2 года назад +14

    Thanks History Guy. I love your channel.

  • @Jack-xo2zp
    @Jack-xo2zp 2 года назад

    Thank you for slowing your speaking style. I've noticed your more deliberate and clearer style lately.

  • @Pygar2
    @Pygar2 2 года назад +6

    Around 1969 I watched a WWII movie involving zillions of cans of beer floating in the ocean- I think maybe Pabst? Its title I'd love to know... that and another film in which a bus is run on coconut shells are my main two Mystery Movies of my life! At that age the big thrill was more Dad than the film... wish I could watch one more movie with him- he was partial to Don Knotts movies...

    • @lizj5740
      @lizj5740 2 года назад +1

      Hi Pygar2. Thanks for reminding me that I have a Mystery Movie, too. I saw it in Germany, sometime in the mid-1950s. It involved a mystery, shetland ponies, and two boys. Because I saw it with my father's German secretary's niece, I'm sure the movie was either in German or had German subtitles. I've tried Google searches, but haven't found it yet.

    • @erickrobertson7089
      @erickrobertson7089 2 года назад

      Could 1968's The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell be one and The Longest Hundred Miles from 67' be the other?

    • @Pygar2
      @Pygar2 2 года назад +1

      @@erickrobertson7089 YESSS!!! I'm sure of it! There can't be two coconut bus movies, and Dad would watch ANYTHING with Bob Hope!

    • @erickrobertson7089
      @erickrobertson7089 2 года назад

      @@lizj5740 Not that I'm trying to be Mr. Movie tonight but could that the film Misty, from 1961 and subtitled in German?

    • @erickrobertson7089
      @erickrobertson7089 2 года назад

      @@Pygar2 Yeah, it's hard to beat Hope. My Favorite Brunette is one I can watch again and again. Laurel and Hardy movies never get old either.

  • @ericstromberg9608
    @ericstromberg9608 2 года назад +21

    1:43 USS Vesuvius, one of the strangest things the US Navy has ever done, and well worth a video of its own.

    • @kdrapertrucker
      @kdrapertrucker 2 года назад +1

      Nowhere as strange as the sidewheel steamboat aircraft carriers the navy used in WWII.

  • @1LSWilliam
    @1LSWilliam 2 года назад +1

    Delightful. I bet a few of my relatives in western Michigan knew him, not merely of him.

  • @loqutus8
    @loqutus8 2 года назад +1

    HE SAID THE THING! Thank you sir

  • @captainamerica6525
    @captainamerica6525 2 года назад

    Imagine that!! Pirates on the Great Lakes. Been a Michigan resident all my life and never heard of it. Thanks!

  • @guyh.4553
    @guyh.4553 2 года назад +2

    Very cool story! Never even thought about pirates being on the Great Lakes!

  • @marie_h1104
    @marie_h1104 2 года назад +1

    Well, all good stories involve pirates and this one is no exception. Thank you, sir!

  • @jpkalishek4586
    @jpkalishek4586 2 года назад +3

    I lived outside Gladstone, just up the shore from Escanaba, a few miles. Until they put in the Locks in the Soo, the Iron ore was hauled by train to Esky and loaded there. and even in the 80's a large percentage went out via the rails to the ore docks there. I've not looked to see how much still is, but I see less trains when visiting there than when I was a kid, and at time it is a freight train, not ore. For a while some of the ore ships were too big to navigate the locks, so they could only go into Esky to be loaded. The trains ran past my childhood home just across the road, and I can still sleep though one going past the intersection back up there (Ma and Dad's camper is on family land there).
    I have heard of Seavy before, but about lower lake area and Chicago events, and didn't realize he was ever in Marinette (I work in the city) Peshtigo, or Esky.

  • @indylovelace
    @indylovelace 2 года назад +2

    I so enjoy your story telling. Glad to see you’ve crossed 1 million subscribers. Congratulations on this milestone!

  • @Foxbat131
    @Foxbat131 2 года назад +3

    Fantastic story! Very well done 👍

  • @justme_gb
    @justme_gb 2 года назад +61

    "His sister is small, but plump and pretty." Can anyone image a journalist penning those words today?

    • @kyle857
      @kyle857 2 года назад +15

      Honestly, I prefer it to the way most web articles are written now where the actual information starts at paragraph 6.

    • @LawIV
      @LawIV 2 года назад +12

      Thicc

    • @jangamaster8677
      @jangamaster8677 2 года назад +5

      Amazing insight, it’s almost as though people speak differently today or something

    • @Pfsif
      @Pfsif 2 года назад

      Journalists=propagandist.

    • @badgerattoadhall
      @badgerattoadhall 2 года назад +4

      @@LawIV damn it Lawrence!!! You replied before I could!!!!

  • @notthefbi7932
    @notthefbi7932 2 года назад +4

    Something I've never heard of the-Pirate's of the Great Lakes. And your right all good stories involve pirates 😁

  • @Genetherapy3232
    @Genetherapy3232 2 года назад

    I’m from northern Michigan. Thank you for this. Love your channel. This is a favorite.
    ❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @rafaelramos1486
    @rafaelramos1486 2 года назад +11

    Where and when was the last person accused of piracy in US and Territories Was the last one.? Just curious

  • @kimfleury
    @kimfleury 2 года назад

    I looked through your uploads for a video on the King of Beaver Island. That's an interesting tidbit in Great Lakes history.

  • @mtnvalley9298
    @mtnvalley9298 2 года назад +5

    I always enjoy your content, thanks.

  • @johnking6252
    @johnking6252 Год назад +1

    Having served on the lakes I always thought there had to have been a few pirates through history, there's just to much open areas , Thx. 👍

  • @josephpicogna6348
    @josephpicogna6348 2 года назад

    Thank you , another wonderful program, and , there weee pirates.

  • @thomasbernecky2078
    @thomasbernecky2078 2 года назад

    I am from Buffalo and have heard the best stories are Pirate stories? Well done, and a nice looking ship too?

  • @ravensmill3927
    @ravensmill3927 2 года назад

    If anyone else titled a video like that, it would have been clickbait. But THG doesn't disappoint.

  • @larryoloane7579
    @larryoloane7579 2 года назад

    Having grown up on the shores of Lake Ontario, I always enjoy stories about the Great Lakes.
    Small quibble; Milwaukee WI to Dawson City YT is less than 15% of the way around the world.
    I also grew up to be a geography nerd 🙂

  • @bigmonmagoomba9634
    @bigmonmagoomba9634 Год назад

    I really enjoyed that. They could make a heckuva movie about this guy.

  • @nilo70
    @nilo70 2 года назад

    Thank You for making this wonderful episode

  • @cathycrandall5264
    @cathycrandall5264 2 года назад

    As per usual enjoyed your episode for today and as a lifelong Michiganian maybe even a little bit more so. Nice sweater by the way, great color and happy Spring!

  • @neileskew3454
    @neileskew3454 2 года назад

    This was very fun story and and story with pirates makes it better

  • @zackakai5173
    @zackakai5173 2 года назад +6

    1:43 - you know you're a fucking nerd when you looked at this image and went "wait isn't that the Vesuvius?", and you were right 🤣

  • @brianburchart7592
    @brianburchart7592 2 года назад

    What a truly amazing yarn! Luv your work!!!

  • @renegadetenor
    @renegadetenor 2 года назад +1

    Escanaba is in Michigan, FYI.

  • @ValerieprimcessAmanda
    @ValerieprimcessAmanda 2 года назад +1

    I read about this guy at the death's door maratime museum last summer.

  • @charsbob
    @charsbob 2 года назад +2

    You've had a lot of great stories on this channel. This is one of the best. It's great to remember someone larger than life, living by his own law, even as civilization inevitably approached. Thanks!

  • @StDavidpipes
    @StDavidpipes 2 года назад

    Fascinating!

  • @privatepilot4064
    @privatepilot4064 2 года назад +17

    Grew up in the Great Lakes State. It’s not much different than growing up in any coastal area.

  • @torgeirbrandsnes1916
    @torgeirbrandsnes1916 2 года назад +2

    Great story. Escanaba is in the U.P of MI on Lake Michigan, not in WI. Love your work! Looking forward to the next one.

    • @larryhall7998
      @larryhall7998 2 года назад

      In the past it was sometime it was called Escanaba Wisconsin! My Mom grew up there!

  • @BlueEyedColonizer
    @BlueEyedColonizer 2 года назад +29

    I hope to hear you say "don't all good stories involve pirates" when we are both in our 70s. 😁

  • @tahlulabang
    @tahlulabang 2 года назад +1

    Another cool story worth looking into way up North is the last battle between native Americans and the United States which took place at sugar point on leech lake in Minnesota October 5 1898

  • @kevinwiskus8874
    @kevinwiskus8874 2 года назад +3

    You had me at pirates

  • @papapaxton6560
    @papapaxton6560 2 года назад

    The title sequence made me happy!

  • @detroitredneckdetroitredne6674
    @detroitredneckdetroitredne6674 2 года назад +12

    Spectacular job Brother thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise and for taking us on another great adventure hello from Detroit Michigan 👋 94/275

  • @pitsnipe5559
    @pitsnipe5559 2 года назад +7

    You’re like my wife, just mention pirates and she gets all excited. Great story.

  • @piatpotatopeon8305
    @piatpotatopeon8305 2 года назад +8

    The only thing better than a pirate is a Great Lake pirate!

  • @anthonytropiano6650
    @anthonytropiano6650 2 года назад

    This was nice there are more then just the pirate .you got the purple gang ,frank gow,captian kiah and his surfmen,Abigail becker, William Johnson the other pirate on the great lakes,,Rocco Perri,and Isadore blumenfeld .I love hearing stories of the great lakes .yes I am a proud Michigander.

  • @ScottMyersOfTheEarth
    @ScottMyersOfTheEarth 2 года назад +1

    YESSSS!!! LOVE THIS!!! That guy sounds terrific. Definitely all great stories involve pirates!! w00t!!!
    I mean, okay, maybe he was a shifty jerk who didn't do much good. Pirates are, generally, dirty criminals. But like whatever, his is a terrific story that deserves to be remembered!

  • @melissaroscher1080
    @melissaroscher1080 2 года назад +1

    Reminds me of the Angry Worms song Pirate of the River Saskatchewan

    • @ericwilner1403
      @ericwilner1403 2 года назад +1

      The Arrogant Worms; "The Last Saskatchewan Pirate". Yup! I wonder if they'd heard of this guy.

  • @MarshOakDojoTimPruitt
    @MarshOakDojoTimPruitt 2 года назад +1

    thanks

  • @greggweber9967
    @greggweber9967 2 года назад +2

    2:00 Is that a Dynamite cannon?

  • @jafinch78
    @jafinch78 2 года назад +5

    Neat seeing a video on! I recall meeting the author who wrote a book about this pirate in Traverse City and seems Frankfort or a little further down the lakeshore. Trying to recall if the same author who wrote about a story I heard regarding a U.S. Marshall and Bishop being murdered in the area... maybe more around the Empire area? I forget, may be just a story I've heard growing up in the Mi west cost area the more I think about.

  • @capnbill9827
    @capnbill9827 2 года назад

    I love caricatures that are larger than life.

  • @redshirt1917
    @redshirt1917 2 года назад

    Great story. Thanks.

  • @njpaddler
    @njpaddler 2 года назад +6

    Oh, good...pirates !!!

  • @TheRiverPirate13
    @TheRiverPirate13 2 года назад +9

    I was born in Wisconsin, and I have spent many a day on the shores of Lake Michigan in childhood. Been to a few of the Maritime museums there and even toured the HMS Rose when she made a stop in Milwaukee. I never heard of this early 20th century Pirate of the Great Lakes until now! I've been in Florida most of my life and went on the account 5 years ago. Now I know why! Raise the Black and a swig of rum to Captain Seavey!

  • @dehoedisc7247
    @dehoedisc7247 2 года назад +2

    In high school, our History teacher was also the football head coach and he didn't give a damn about history or the students. He required us to memorize dates and facts and actually copy the textbook word for word by ink pen on paper. I simply refused to comply with that nonsense and was rewarded with a grade somewhere between a "D" and an "F". That guy was a hard man to please. I prefer your method, History Guy.

    • @jimbandelean5802
      @jimbandelean5802 2 года назад

      You didn't go to Anchor Bay High in New Baltimore ³?

  • @bernardfrederic6535
    @bernardfrederic6535 2 года назад +2

    Is the steamboat shown at 1:45 min, equipped with dynamite guns?

  • @matthewmoeller6766
    @matthewmoeller6766 2 года назад +3

    That's a real "rip-snorting" tale!

  • @JanisFever
    @JanisFever 2 года назад

    Hey good to see The History Guy nailing the Peshtigo pronunciation after the Peshtigo Fire video

  • @richardchisholm2073
    @richardchisholm2073 2 года назад +2

    You say he sailed the Wanderer from Escanaba, Wi which made me curious. I only find an Escanaba Lake there. Escanaba, Mi is a port city on Little Bay De Noc, north shore of Lake Michigan and only 60 miles from Wisconsin. Possible source error? Aside from that, very interesting story. Being from Michigan and growing up on the lakes, I have heard other stories of "minor piracy" by individuals relieving small vessels of their cargo. Seavey seems to be one of these who didn't keep a low profile. What an adventurous life, albeit a good bit larcenous.
    Sorry, I saw your correction after I posted.

    • @knyghtryder3599
      @knyghtryder3599 2 года назад

      The borders were less clear then , and apparently that area flipped a few times

  • @michaelwalton3202
    @michaelwalton3202 2 года назад +4

    Great pirate story! ARRRR!😁👍

  • @sideshowbob
    @sideshowbob 2 года назад +5

    "Don't all good Wisconsin stories involve PBR?"

  • @stevedietrich8936
    @stevedietrich8936 2 года назад +9

    Peshtigo, scene of the big fire.

    • @michaelwarren2391
      @michaelwarren2391 2 года назад

      I thought Seavey was going to be accused for starting the fire. LOL

  • @euansmith3699
    @euansmith3699 2 года назад +1

    "... moving hay for illegal horse-racing..." blimey, history is so strange.

  • @lightbox617
    @lightbox617 2 года назад +8

    Lake Oneida, just North f Syracuse, NY is now part of the St. Lawrence Seaway. In the late 18 and early 1900's was the source of a thriving fresh water fishing industry (mostly what we called Walleye pike). There was also a thriving piracy industry focused on stealing nets with catches. This was the only criminal activity that my Irish antecedents' did not cash in on.

    • @thomasbernecky2078
      @thomasbernecky2078 2 года назад

      Hey Walleye!

    • @lizj5740
      @lizj5740 2 года назад

      @@thomasbernecky2078 Now you've reminded me of a joke, the last two lines of of which are "Would I!" "Peg leg!"

  • @theunspoke815
    @theunspoke815 2 года назад +1

    OH MY!! DOLLARS TO DOUGHNUTS!!! YOU NEED TO DO AN EPISODE ON "OLD TIME SAYINGS"!!! 19 OT 6!!! Old men calling women BIRDS!! There's a million of them & some of us like to still use them so we don't FORGET!!! I used to LOVE hearing my older family members use the terms!! And what I wouldn't give to hear that again!!! 👍👍😉😉

  • @DavidSmith-fw6uj
    @DavidSmith-fw6uj 2 года назад

    Love from DeKalb Mississippi USA 🇺🇸

  • @billdurham8477
    @billdurham8477 2 года назад +1

    Mooncussing- They cussed when the moon was bright. On Cape Cod they tied a lantern to a broomstick and walked a donkey up the beach. It looked light a light swaying on an anchored ship. Then the target runs aground on the bar. And remember loot THEN burn.

  • @henrysmith7276
    @henrysmith7276 2 года назад +1

    This guy rules!

  • @johnr797
    @johnr797 2 года назад +1

    "His sister is small, but plump and pretty."
    Hard-hitting journalism there

  • @adampackard3561
    @adampackard3561 2 года назад +2

    As always grand 😀