Snowmobile Tour of Chesuncook Village est1864 

We stayed at the Lake House in 1977. We flew into Lobster lake and canoed down the west branch of the Penobscot river to lake Chesuncook. We met Bert McBurnie and his wife. They were running the Lake House when we stayed there. I was 17. I am now 64 and it is one of my best memories.

Awesome video thanks so much for the history of the village

This was awesome. I LOVE the history up there and really enjoyed this video.

Great show, the histor is wonderful ❤

Incredible history, especially the POW camps of WW2

I also love history, but more so the history of my own back yard. As a logger half my life that area and the late 1800s to mid 1900s holds a lot of interest in a lot of us. I can’t get up there so thank you for sharing!

Loved this episode so much! Thank You ❤

Stuff like this belongs on WCVB-TV's Chronicle! Thx for sharing the trip.

Best one yet! Johnnie and Sadie rocked it!

We don't just need fishing videos any type of outdoor style video you put out is great entertainment and learning material

I ‘ d. love to have that ride , see the dog seat in the basket ❤❤, he looks enjoy it , the surrounding is so amazing

Awesome history lesson!

Hey Joe ! Up till now I really liked you, Donny is still my hero . But when you mentioned you would like to get married in the church at Chesuncook my wife ran out the door and never looked back. Yup , she's tracking you down as we speak . Thanks a lot ol pal! LOL Just kidding , you really know what your viewers want to see. I've been wanting to visit the village for almost 30 years , just haven't made it happen yet. Great show, thanks a ton for bringing us along!

wow Joe i love this video. I like history and stories. its important to get history down on tape. I used to listen to my dad and his buddies tell stories up to camp about hunting and wild stories about how things were back in those days. I wish i had them on film to remember them. Thanks

Great show Joe. Keep it up

Amazing beautiful location . Thank you for sharing its history. I really enjoyed that ..

Cool little history tour. Thanks for sharing it

Pretty awesome heritage!! Great spot nice to see people coming together to keep it alive !! Thanks for sharing

One of you’re best Joe!

You and Donny rock! Enjoy all your videos! This one is great! I see you driving through Millinocket occasionally.

Amazing thanks for sharing

Man I wish I had a buddy system like u all have up there in main . Love to join u same day with my son for a fishing trip we got everything sleds tent all gear ready to go

Joe was a pleasure to meet you at the Irving out of millinocket.. you gave us the motivation and we did really on the Brook trout..

Glad too see you back. Missed your adventures. You and your best bud.

Hey Joe! Looks like another great time!

Thank You Joe you never cease to educate us! Love learning about the north woods.

This is Gold

Awesome video really enjoy it . Keep them coming

Joe and Donny with the world famous Johnny M. !! I saw a couple friends camps I recognize here!!

Awesome video brother 👍cheers 😊

Such cool history!!

Donnie is very perceptive he only met me 2 hours before but knew I needed easy reading material😂😂

I enjoyed this very much. Thank you

Been up there so many times, it was good to get the history lesson! Great video Joe! Looking forward to the next video to see what you pull out of the water!

Love the mountain morning show reference. 105.1 WTOS 👍🏻

Maine had the Country's last log drive in '76. My father was part of many a log drive on the Machias River. My mother used one of those clothes wringers. I was always amazed how our school clothes could dry below zero. The biggest ones always get away. Good one, Joe!

Your Snowmobile is impressive Joe, unbelievable power and traction! Donnie's cooking looks awesome as usual. Thanks for all your videos I enjoy them all, and thanks John for showing all that history! 👍👍

Awesome video joe. I need to visit the village

I love history! Thanks for sharing joe.

Great show guys

What a great video. I love the history of that area and to see it like this was a really cool experience. Thank you for shay this Joe.

Great episode Joe I would much rather watch episodes like this and the metal detecting down river exc. type videos thank anything else on RU-vid or TV would love to watch any type of your videos year round you got my vote ✅

As you well know, Joe, you've only scratched the surface. Keep this theme rolling. Maines history is epic and a story worth telling. The most ancient form of education was passing down the stories of our ancestors. Keep up the good work! 👊🏼👍🏼🤙🏼

Hey Joe been waiting with anticipation on this video once I saw the notice. Good to see you and Donnie going back in time and learning the past history. I have learned a lot about the backwoods of Maine from you guys and some of it rich history. Looking forward to the next video which I will watch right now. Cheers MT

Joe - you know I eat up the history of this area. Great to see Donnie out there with you again. John did an amazing job on the tour! I ought to get up there to see him. There was one problem with this episode - now my girls want a dog they can put in a flannel coat and carry around in a basket!

Man i miss going up there.

awesome vid as usual!

Awesome video Joe! Always up for learning the history of the Northern Maine way of living.

Another update: The Simmons family started coming in the 30's. Camp was built later then that. No cars when the bridge was over the river. Horse and wagon used it.

Looks like it's going to be another great series by Joe. Donnie and John are awesome. The only person missing is Double D!!

Great Video Joe , History is always awesome to learn !

You had great company today Jo. I could listen to folks talk about their local history every day. Great, great, great, video today!

I see Chesuncook village revisited with a proper tour someday!

This is awesome video!! Thank you for sharing this.

We used to hunt up in Northern Maine back in the 80's. Up around Northern Lumber/Paper land. Been trying to figure where we were back then but I was younger and we got access through some acquaintances of ours. Pretty sure it was on East Branch of Penobscot north of Millinocket. What I remember is there was nothing there except for some company shacks and a bunch of clear cuts and you made sure you had what you needed as we were 'Glamping' For the unknowing glamping is camping but in a fancy motor home. One of my sisters had a cottage on Moosehead. We used to go ride our sleds into Canada. i love Maine and the sign entering it on Rt1 Maine, The Way Life Should Be

Joe that was fantastic man I’m a real history buff I can never get enough of an historical place,ain’t nothing like good camping fishing and a history tour.thanks joe for taking us along for the tour.😊☮️

Great episode Joe, absolutely love the history and how it is being taken care of and preserved.

Oh man I loved that! That was just great hearing the stories and history of the area with you, Donnie and John knew so much and the names of everyone. I just wanted to be there. Thanks to you all.

Hi Joe. Lawrence from Dowling Ontario Canada. Love your videos especially with Don. Just finished watching this one at 5:00 am. The only thing I would like would be better audio especially when doing an historical video such as this. Keep up the great work. It takes me back to many great times with my family in the Great Outdoors. Thanks again.

Finally

Awsome video! Thanks for the tour I always wanted to check the village out.

Joe, you have to do more videos like this!!! It was an hour long that felt like 20 minutes. The stories are so amazing! I want more!

Update: we only toured about 2/3 of the camps. There are more back in the woods. It was all happening so quick!

Great content Joe. This is one of the best things I’ve seen on U Tube in a long time. I really enjoyed the tour of the village and the story’s from John and Donnie about it. I love John’s passion for maintaining the old buildings and teaching people the history of the area. Great video. Keep up the good work

Looking forward . 👌

I’ve run sleds up from Moosehead and had lunch at the Lake House many times…was there right before she burned in 2018.

Great video Joe, love the stories and history about north Main I was born in Quebec little north of Montreal... this is the stuff that to this day makes us great neighbors... I am believe it or not reading Helene Hamlin's 9 mile bridge book I think you're in the same region... anyways keep up the good work

Great history lecture!

One more ??? Can u get this gentleman info for a back woods trip 🤔 love to do this with him .

Can’t wait been missing them

Couple guys pulled into the door yard today. "Wait, didnt we see you on a video!! they asked.

We been wondering where ole joe has been?

As beautiful as Maine is one needs to be careful up north as one wrong turn can put one in great danger. It happened to Geraldine Largay back in 2013 around Katahdin. She made it nearly a month alone waiting for help that never came. Help was near but unfortunately not close enough

If any of my tour info is off please share your knowledge. Tales can miss details through the tellings.

I missed you by about a half hour this morning at Indian hill.

Really enjoyed this video I’ve spent a lot of time up there fishin my grandfather used to ice fish up there every weekend back when the salmon where bigger and Bert run things Bert was a gentleman

Love the video. It’s for sure a historical plc. Now I personally rode in that old army ambulance on my fathers 1999 zone 4 moose hunt. we stayed at reds and explored the village we had been up there ice fishing a few times we always stayed at Kelly camp that red had when we were ice fishing. But the archeologists were staying at that camp the week of our moose hunt. They had arrow heads like the man in your video explained pre dated the Penobscots now they personally showed us them. Now it’s a shame old red is gone. The supernaut family that was mentioned in the video is a dishonest bunch. The constant harassment of old red was disgusting. They showed up and arrested red with a helicopter that landed out front of his camp. He told my father the story as I sat there in his camp. My father testified in court on red’s behalf of the lies and harassment that we experienced from the family during our stay at reds on an ice fishing trip. # Outlaw # Outlaws chop shop palmyra Maine

Hi, did the "World Famous Donnie" get a new sled? Keep the video's coming. Thx.

OMG is right. Man you could do a whole video in that one building/The Lodge. Please don't make me drive up there as it's much further than it used to be. Even back when it took like 6 hours, maybe more

"American-German culture in Maine" Bremen, Maine Dresden, Maine German Church and Cemetery Hanover, Maine Waldoboro, Maine 👋

Joe what an awesome video the history is very interesting just not really something you would think about that deep in the woods. How many buildings are there in the village? So interesting to learn about it looking forward to hearing more about the village. Can’t wait to see the next episode !

Where have you been ducking all this time? I've been worried! I hope you are well bud 👍

Joey going to have a east grand slam video ?

Was that golosh for dinner???

How far is this village from the burnt lake house

Do any of these camps come up for sale?