Monkey's Tour of Portland

Monkey leads a tour of Portland, Maine. Robbie Williams sings "Me and My Monkey". Because Monkey bungles most of the facts about his hometown, we've added a Cliff Notes Version of Portland.

1632 - Portland settled.

1675 - Portland's first fire occurs when the Wampanoag people understandably attack during King Phillip's War. Silly King Phillip.

Second Fire occurs several years later.

1775 - Third fire is ordered by Captain Henry Mowatt. (Mowat?) of the Royal Navy

1866 - Fire number four is the Great Fire of July 4, 1866. It started in a boat house on Commercial Street, likely caused by a firecracker or a cigar ash. The fire spread to a lumber yard and on to a sugar house, then spread across the city, eventually burning out on Munjoy Hill in the city's east end. Only two people died in the fire, but 1,800 buildings were burned to the ground making almost 10,000 people homeless.

We don't know how many pounds of lobster Portland hauls in per year. Monkey made it up as he went along. Silly Monkey.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Portland
• Maine
• Monkey
• puppets
• stuffed
• Robbie
• Williams

[acowateme]

of all the places you showed you should have shown the prefection of preble street LOL

[monkeypayson]

The perfection of Preble Street? Oh my yes. How could I have forgotten? I will be sure to do that next time, complete with interviews. Thank you for your suggestion!

[voxdevox]

Portland Burned Down 4 times?? wow!! sad ;/

[monkeypayson]

Indeed. Four times. Some people say three, but it was four. However, the city's motto is "Resurgam," because Portland rises like a Phoenix after each disaster. Monkey forgot to mention the motto. He's always thinking about bananas...

[g3tfilms]

Bored in the afternoon I was trolling through some old favs. I'd forgotten exactly how funny this video was... <i>something smells</i>! Hahaha!

[monkeypayson]

You weirdo. We miss you! We will be back soon, making a brand new video on Memorial Day Weekend. Steam Engines, with many of your suggestions being put to good use.

[urgay3232]

yeah duude i live in portand too

[demonicmidg]

i also live in maine preble street wow interveiws would be gould but i can think of better

[tkx7]

Hopefully the monkey enjoyed Maine

[monkeypayson]

I made it primarily for the friends and family of Monkey. He has a blog and a group of fiercely loyal readers. He bungles most of the facts in this video, but he is, after all, a monkey.