Team Maine

Curious whether anyone who is disabled was involved in the development of this series. Not just as interviewees/ panelists. Also, society disables people by its inability to adapt the existing system and expectations for everyone. The transportation system is also not designed to be used by people. I have a college degree and can’t figure out how to set up my own appointments for the system. It is highly inaccessible. I am not able to use the system, so I’m not one of their service recipients, so I’m off grid from their system. It’s exhausting and so it’s just another way of making disabled folks invisible. If you aren’t a member of their network, you are not one they are asking questions of. If you are disabled, and you are not in the workforce, you are not part of the percentages of folks who are unemployed even though many of us are extremely underemployed and living near or under the poverty level.

They have an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter! you get bonus points!

We have alot of them on our property

It is all of New England!

There are stone walls like that where I am in New York State!!

I feel like this isn't true. I was born and raised in Maine and I've always heard that there's no real answer on why the stone walls are here. The answer I heard the most was that Native Americans made them . I feel like they are older then the 1700s. A lot of the walls are deep in the woods where there's no records of towns or people living there other than the walls. Im not saying that colonizers didn't make them too but I think they weren't the original creators of the walls, they just copied what the natives were doing

Many songs I don't recall seeing live in person. David's live performances will be missed. Thankfully the music and these recordings will carry on. I met him once, if chatting in the washroom line counts. He was very down to earth.

I so want to do this with my Canadian Horse Nic! Very little snow in southern NH right now, going to have to get roller skis or rollerblades I guess…

Looks beautiful. I haven't skated in years and I'm very envious of those beautiful conditions

What else were they supposed to do with all the rocks???...you either build houses or walls...or both. I grew up in CT and remember as a kid being amazed at all the effort that had to have gone into building all those walls. I grew up on a chicken farm and handled my fair shair of rocks, so I knew it was back breaking work. I could see from all the growth around and on the walls that they were OLD...VERY OLD. I could picture the settlers of New England toiling away clearing the fields. Horse and oxen helped them if they were fortunate to be able to afford them...if not...good old Yankee ingenuity.

I remember as a kid ,my helped clean a trail that,goes thru alot of states. We found rocks we put the on the stonewall near them . Im back in Connecticut now well for years,one of my families have been in Connecticut since 1600 . They made alot of the rockwalls near their,homes and other walls . My great grama would have her kids when they found a stone put it in the wall. Thats,what your passed family did and her cows never crossed them . Their part of New England and many years back, ai was told some walls ate different . Thats,because each family that owned the land had different parts of land and who knew who's land was where. It was like land marks . Most of the Rockwall in New England in the woods was someone land .

Pennsylvania and New York have massive amounts of the exact walls. Definitely not unique to Maine or NE.

I have seen plenty of old stone walls, just like that, in Pennsylvania.

👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎 We all know perfectly well alot of the stone walls u are talking about predate any of the settlers from Europe were ever here an according to most mainstream archeology natives didnt build with stone which we also know is false at this time.. so no you havent explained shit you have just put forth a false narrative.. just because you sit in a room an read books from the past and not actually get out of the room an start to open your eyes to new as well as older research you will keep pushing the same narrative.. the truth is we dont exactly know where all of the the stone walls an structures are or come from but they are definitely not all from European settlers..

Yea when I go to Maine I always wonder why there are no trees. Really good info thou. Thumbs up

Just FYI, I am from New Brunswick, Canada, which borders Maine, and we have a lot of stone walls here as well :)

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This exists in Massachusetts also & Connecticut

Lot of work with no equipment.

So cool. I always wondered about all those stone walls visible in the woods in the winter as I'm driving along a highway.

Connecticut has stone walls and you can find property and treasures dated back to the 1600’s -1700’s

Great story....

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Batches from past resets we've gone through that have crumbled

As a child of the Sixties living in Mass., our playground was the woods. The meeting place for my brother and I and our friends was the stone wall. There was also what we called " The Big Rock", another meeting place. At 12 years of age, took for granted that it was always there, but looked so out of place. Only when I studied Geology in college did it all make sense. Enjoyed this video. Thank you.

We have stonewalls all over Vermont

Saw Dave so much and l always stayed to chat. He d say, “l remember you.” It was great to kinda know him. A great soul gone up there.

I was told that slaves built many of the walls where I live!

PEOPLE SUCK Seriously all we do is destroy

This video would be awesome if you showed us the way the fish navigate the fish ladder. 👍

I think what offends me about the modern manner is so many of them are on unemployment or social security or disability and they never do anything to take care of their properties. There's all the stone lying around and they just if at best stack it in the corners and do nothing with it and they live in these little ugly huts

Interesting …

Very interesting. Thank you

I have the last 100 feet of stone wall in my town that's privately owned. It's in my backyard in Waltham, ma.

¿…Why are there 21 islands all with the same name "Ram I."?- isn`t that too confusing?

It only took 6 years for our five acre piece of land to return to forest. Our stone walls in NH were 4-5 feet high and 7 feet wide originally. Now they have sunk into ground and are 3 feet high but 3 feet wide

NH has way more because of their granite and fields full of rocks. Maine had a lot of slate which is easier to work with but not as hard as granite in NH. I have dug up tons of rocks but small.

How do you study stone walls when most of them are on private property?

I believe the indigenous also built stone walls for various reasons.

thank you for sharing your knowledge and the work you garnered to share this history.

To all you global warming nut jobs. Maine lost all its Forest at one time and it all grew back, imagine that. Everything goes in Cycles even the planet.

It's not just maine. Stone walls are all over the Northeast. Here in Scituate Rhode Island I have them all over the woods around my house. The early settlers clearing land dug up rocks and use them for boundary walls. Then plowing the fields they found more. Then after every winter the frost would drive the stones to the surface collecting even more

As a former Bangor resident who got the hell out, i look back at the natives in Maine as living glacial erratics in human form. Sort of deposited there, nobody know what else to do with em cept stack em up around the edges of most civilized places, and eventually they make a documentary bout em. Flatlanduh's always buttin' in tryin to change things i reckun!

1775 to 1825. That's a short 50 years. In the year 1800, Maine had a population of approximately 100 thousand people, which included woman and children. Did the men build these walls while tending to the needs of survival? Like growing crop and taking care of livestock? Did they build them on Sabbath day? How about in winter? Did you ever try to move a large stone frozen in the ground? When and exactly how did they achieve this? Something tells me there is much more to the stone wall story than this woman is saying because I challenge everyone who is reading this to build a mear 6 foot stone wall while working a full time job to insure the survival of your family. Oh yeah one more thing, how many fingers were broken by accident trying to achieve this grand task in just 50 years. What say you?

That's enough stone walls to go around the Earth 10 times

On the Appalachian trail (up in the NE states), I see these walls all over - NY, Connecticut, Massachusetts. Thanks for explaining. I was very curious about them.

So glad to have this to watch! We were there that night at the Gracie. My memories of David go back to Spotlight on Youth days. RIP You touched the world!

God Speed Dave