Bristol here lol

Place an "R" in front of and an "E" behind the name "Athol" and you get "Rathole". Just ask anyone who participates in the Athol/Orange River Rat Race held every Spring.

Wonderfully created and very educational video!

You did an excellent job showing my home town. I moved from that area at age 10 but Greenfield had it ALL back then, including the fog horn that sounded every evening at 9PM! The trains were active then and rumbled mysteriously under Main Street if you stood in the right spot! You couldn't see them but I enjoyed watching them roll by from a backyard up on Chapman St. I still remember the Garden Theater where I watched my first movie and there was a radio station where main street intersects with High street. I recall the fairs at the fairground and riding a sled down the mountain side from Poet Seat into Beacon street field full blast during snow storms! Do kids still do that?? At Christmas, downtown Greenfield was like a wonderland with overhead lighted decorations. Walking up to Poet Seat was always a thrill where we would explore an old bear's den up on the side of the mountain. Greenfield had it's own recreation beach/park on the river and I loved swimming near the dam! I also liked jumping from the old covered bridge that is now, unfortunately a new covered bridge. The new "do not enter" signs are disappointing. At that age, my friend and I would ride our bikes downtown and all over the town. 10 years old!! It was a safe place for kids. Doors were also never locked. We walked to school during blizzards with heavy boots. Schools never closed and there were no buses. Kids walked a good distance to get to school! It was darn good for us! The hydro power plant that served Greenfield, actually in Turners, was also amazing, and is now running again! As a kid my grandfather let me sit on one of the big generators generating power for Greenfield, all from just WATER! Also in Turners we had to go over that metal canal bridge to Rockdaie, with the water rushing just inches below the bridge. Well, it seemed like inches! Looking back from a child's eyes, it was a wonderful, amazing place to grow up and that experience ended horribly when I moved! I still believe the town has great potential but it did suffer horribly with the closing of so much of the industry that had previously supported it's people. 15 years later I returned for a summer vacation and most of those features and places were still there and I was able to relive some of my childhood experiences. Ironically I've met people across the country who have also either lived there or experienced the unique features of the town. What I miss the most was when my grandfather would drive us out around the countryside on a Sunday afternoon. That sweet country smell I will never forget. Of course there were a lot of dairy cows so that might have been the reason. But our milk came from those cows so it was all good! But Greenfield is a good example of the transition/challenge that many areas of this country experienced, beginning back then when local industry and businesses closed because they couldn't compete with larger corporations using cheaper foreign labor. The industries that supported Greenfield back then are now in China. We need to remember that. We love to blame politicians, on both sides for the challenges that Greenfield and other towns have experienced over the years when we SHOULD be directly blaming the large wealthy corporations, who, because of greed, abandoned the good people of this country. Our family still has products that were previously produced in Greenfield back then. Great job on the video!

The house in Ware that my mother's parents, my grandparents, lived in had previously been a funeral home. Once when I slept there in a room by myself, I was convinced that I saw a ghost. Oh, and by the way, when my grandparents bought the house, they got a very good price. For unknown reasons, the previous owners only lived there for about a month before deciding to sell it.

I spent about 20 years trying to escape from Greenfield and have spent about the past 20 wishing I could go back. It’s changed a lot since I left.

Good job describing my home town.

The guy that filmed this vid probably turned into a deformed monster by now

By far the prettiest video ever done on this town! Wow big congrats!!🎉🎉🎉

Is this the USA?

Mount Greylock is in Adams, not North Adams...

Leominster Sucks!

da real one

Leominster is in Worcester county, and is approximately 20 miles due north of the ciry of Worcester. Lowell, (in Middlesex County) on the other hand, is "northeast" of Worcester County.

Great vid, thank you!!!!

I was born inAthol in1965 lived there off and unti 1986 then moved to Ohio I miss Athol I want to come back this year for a he river rat party and race and see how much has changed I lived onRiverbend st fight across from the school I love that town can’t wait toget back and see it some day, And definitely want to hike up Tully Mt one of my favorite places to get elivated

I think athol is a great town, i used to hike the quabbin in my younger days.

*I am so grateful for this video and all the wonderful information! I grew up as a small child in Shelburne, Mass, and then lived in Charlemont. I haven't been there again since 1972 and dream of visiting there once again. I live 800 miles away. My mother strolled my twin brother and I along The Bridge of Flowers when we were infants and I can still remember it. I would love a DVD of Charlemont and Shelburne Falls if there is one available to tourists. This is the best video I have ever seen in all these years searching online. It brings back incredibly beautiful, touching memories. I thank you again for allowing me to relive those memories this evening.*

My favorite secret place in Northampton is the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library. It is just a couple of rooms in the Northampton old public library. Compare to the 100 million dollar Presidential Libraries' that Clinton, Obama, Bush etc. have built. I like silent Cal the more I study him.

Love this city. Great video!

Ps your work is so so thorough and enjoyable to watch….

Ahh the Paradise city…. My wife and brother in law are from Ireland and this is the first place we lived when I returned back to USA…. What a gem…. A truly awesome place to live…. Love love the entire Pioneer Valley… great video… we miss it so much.

great video! We made a couple of videos in North Adams also! We made one about Mount Greylock and one about the New England Collegiate Summer League Baseball team The Steeple Cats! Thanks for the history lesson!!

Graduated from LHS 1979. Leominster was a great place to grow up. My Grandfather settled there in 1910. My dad had briefly worked for Whitney Carriage and the Piano factory as well as Dupont during WW2. My mom worked for Foster Grants and later Tilton Cook comb factory. Also don’t forget Tri Sum potato chips. The best chips ever!

That was pretty good. Thanks for making it.

05 grad, great vid man u did some solid research!

Amherst has silent h=Amerst

Don’t forget Robert Cormier, author of The Chocolate War!

Leominster was a great place to grow up in the 90s!

Classic 👍

I remember snow days. I miss them...

Nice dream 👍

Wow, I didn't expect the colors to get all trippy like that!

From the thumbnail I wasn't quite sure what that was, but this claymation was really cool.

This animation was...resistawesome! 👍⚡

I find watching this footage to be MAssively relaxing!

I was born and raised in north adams .a great city with the nicest people.a nice place to grow up

I grew up there have family and friends in the area still we used to go tubing past the damn home after being at the pool cool to see thanks for showing this 👍💯🇺🇸

thank you!

Hiya!-Gr,Super- unusual !so long. 😊

Great job. I’m from Athol and learned a lot from your video

Good work lived in that area for 26 years.

North Adams is a perpetually depressed town (even though people there have the nerve to refer to it as a city) whose best days are long behind it.

our town does one hundred percent look better in the winter times

We've really been enjoying watching your videos. You do great research and present it very well.

Amazing work man. Do you have PayPal? Would love to support

I always get excited when I see a new video from you show up!

Grew up in heath. Good video

You definitely made Greenfield look a lot better than what it is it still has potential if we can get the right people in jars to clean it out and up

Your video was good and information i never new