[Seagulls and shorebirds cawing] [Whirligig ticking in the wind] ANNABELLE: Well, you're probably gonna make me cry.

PAUL: All right, well, tell her your story.

OFF CAMERA: It's ok. You can cry.

ANNABELLE: So why don't you tell your story?

PAUL: No, go ahead, and I will chime in.

[Seagulls cawing] ANNABELLE: [Sighs deeply] Let's see.

Well...

The memories go way back.

[Crickets chirping] [Pensive guitar music plays] [Door closing, seagulls cawing] [Prop plane passing] [Dog barks] MAN: Stay.

[Gate closing, bells jingling] [Dog barking] [Orchestral music swells] [Lawn mower humming] [Children playing] RADIO ANNOUNCER: Seafood, boating, and a brand-new dog park near the Island Nature Trail.

Family fun year-round.

Get around Chincoteague easily on the Pony Express Trolley.

See you soon for a one-of-a-kind experience on Chincoteague Island.

Online, chincoteague-va.gov.

RADIO ANNOUNCER 2: Remember, you're on island time.

So slow down, relax, and enjoy your visit.

RADIO: CTG, Delmarva's weather!

a mix of sun and clouds, there's a 20 percent chance of afternoon showers and thunderstorms.

Don't change any plans.

Upper 80's, partly cloudy.

[Seagulls cawing] ALISON: He told me he had a "beach house..." BRENT: It was a very nice beach house- ALISON: Down in Chincoteague.

I was just like, all right, we've gotta go.

[Lighter clicking] ALISON: And I grew up in New Jersey, down the Jersey Shore, so I had my hair done.

My nails were done.

I had all my Jersey Shore outfits ready to go.

And as we're pulling into the campground, I'm thinking, well, where the hell am I?

BRENT: She had to stay in the car while I had to pull all the boards off the door to even get in.

ALISON: I was like, oh, my God, where am I?

This is not a beach house.

[Laundry machines rumbling] [Screen door creaks] [Hose water hissing] [Low hiss of spray bottle] [Sharp bang] [Distant sharp bang] GARY: Who did that?

Huh?

Who did that?

Ha ha.

[Spray can hissing] GARY: I heard that.

KIM: I sent pictures to my sister the weekend that I came down to buy the place.

[Sharp bang] KIM: [Laughs] I- I sent pictures of the campground, and I, you know, sent a couple pictures of the camper.

And she said, she wrote back, you've lost your mind.

MARY: Our pet name for it?

The armpit of America.

[Laughs] [Seagulls cawing] GARY: Damn it.

[Grunts] [Lighter clicks] [Woosh] GARY: Oh!

Whoa!

Well.

[chuckles] Ah.

JEAN: Yeah, since we decided we would come on down and and head back next week.

How's your mom doin', and Eddie?

JANET: She's doing good.

JEAN: Yeah?

JANET: Yeah, she's been doing good.

JEAN: Good.

JANET: Was traffic bad?

JEAN: Hmm, it was getting pretty bad, yeah.

JANET: I figured it started pretty bad.

JEAN: Well, I didn't drive at all, [giggles] but he did.

But um, I usually do, but I can't see out of that eye very good right now.

JANET: Well, it's best that you leave early to avoid all that mess.

JEAN: Yeah.

So we stopped to get chicken, and we ended up with two salads.

So I don't know.

[laughs] JANET: Oh, OK. All righty.

JEAN: I just wasn't really in the mood for chicken.

We- you know, just didn't strike me.

But the salad did.

JANET: The salad did.

JEAN: Usually I'm not like that.

JEAN: Usually I'll go for the chicken.

JANET: Ok. Well, sorry about your letter coming back.

JEAN: Yeah.

See you later.

JANET: Bye-bye.

JEAN: Thank you.

JANET: You're welcome.

[Cicadas] TAMMY: Well, the cats, they've been here since I was a kid.

That's mama kitty, here.

This one just started coming.

I don't know who he is yet.

I feel like an idiot sometimes, putting cat food in certain spots so everybody can have a little bit.

And I gotta keep the seagulls away.

[Seagull cawing] TAMMY: And then I gotta refill.

I know, girl.

I'm not a big animal lover.

I don't want a colony of feral cats, but somebody gotta do it.

JOE: We came here the first time, about quarter to two in the morning, and we get into this trailer.

It's slammed on the ground.

It's old.

Around seven o'clock, I hear this rumble, sixty, seventy feet above the trailers.

[Prop plane engine roaring] JOE: And I hit the floor.

They were spraying for mosquitoes.

[Birds chirping] BILL: Morning.

SANDY: Good mornin'!

How are ya?

BILL: I'm good.

SANDY: What's up with you?

SANDY: Oooh!

Thank you very, very much.

BILL: Breakfast.

SANDY: Oh, yeah.

This'll- he'll love this.

Absolutely.

Thank you.

Appreciate it.

BILL: Yep.

Sure thing.

SANDY: We're good.

BILL: Get that shark cut up, I'll get you some of that, too.

SANDY: Oh, God.

I'll love it.

[Indistinct conversation] FREDA: [Sighs] Gonna be a hot one.

[Whirligig clattering] TERRI: I went out there and sat and watched the lightning a little while last night.

FREDA: I heard the thunder eleven o'clock.

I looked out here, and I seen the wind kickin' up a little bit 'cause of the, uh, tablecloth.

And then I thought, well, it's not rainin' or nothin' yet.

So I went on back to bed.

It was still thundering.

TERRI: Yeah, you could see the lightning over the water, and the big lightning, but you could see a big, black cloud where it covered.

[Wind chimes] DIANE: Dennis says, this guy's card is funny.

I... can do anything.

From bats- CHRISANNE: What's his name?

DIANE: Bud Mumford.

CHRISANNE: Oh, no.

'Cause I have a card from somebody.

DIANE: He's like, I could do anything, from bats in your attic to bugs in your basement and spiders.

I do everything in between.

So like five years later, Dennis wanted his trailer and addition gone.

Calls the guy over.

Well, that guy, he worked- [Chrisanne laughs] ANNA: Who you wavin' at?

DIANE: My wacko husband.

LANCE: [indistinct] Amy?

DIANE: Yeah, Amy's here!

LANCE: She got any garbage?

TOGETHER: Amy, do you have any garbage?

TOGETHER: No.

Not yet!

CHRISANNE: Thank you, Lance.

DIANE: So... [Sliding door opening] MARY: Come on in.

AMY: Hi, Mary.

MARY: We have a possum in this trailer that comes out at night, and that's where he goes, under our kitchen sink.

So Tom put this doohickey on there so it can't get out.

In the meantime, everything that was under our sink is on the refrigerator, here and there.

But it's working out.

MARY: Well, we've been here for 21 years.

But it was a party trailer.

There was nicotine just dripping down the walls.

I mean, it was filthy.

So, we cleaned it up.

[Water lapping] MARY: And I'm sick, that they're gonna tear this place down and every place in here.

Everybody's sick.

[Sofa bed creaking, thud] JACKIE: I had two cans of paint.

I had white and blue, dark blue.

It took me- I did a whole entire day.

I'm talking, I got up at nine o'clock and started painting this, and it was probably, like, five o'clock 'til I had it all painted.

[Ceiling fan whirring] JACKIE: And then I brought my um, acrylic paints down 'cause I decided I wanted something new each year for the kids.

And I wanted to paint a new picture.

I haven't done 2019's yet, which I had just decided I was going to, uh, do dolphins.

But I don't know, you know, with the place closin' down?

I guess there's no reason why I can't enjoy it 'til September.

LJ: I can't see.

[Birds chirping] VIOLET: You wanna go back and see where the tomato plants and stuff's at?

HANNAH: I have dill, tomatoes, uh, cilantro, cucumbers, zucchini.

[Playful music] JOY: Amy, this is my Roomba.

[Drill ratcheting] [Wind chimes] [Roomba buzzing, clacking] [Seagulls cawing] SOPHIE: All right, no losin' this one in the water, ok?

[Seagulls cawing] CARL: Ok. CARL: All right!

SOPHIE: Whoo!

[Horseshoe clanks] JIMMY: Oh!

Two!

GARY: He ain't on there.

He ain't on there.

KEVIN: Then yesterday, whenever I'm doing it, man, they were crying.

CELESTE: Have you ever heard that?

DYLAN: I don't think I got that.

KEVIN: There we go!

DYLAN: But my throw is coming around.

Doin' what I want it to do.

KEVIN: Man, yesterday, I can't be- you shoulda had like, eight more ringers.

[Laughter] [Horseshoe clanks] [Chatter] KEVIN: Awww hawaaaw!

SCOTTY: Yooooo!

BILL: Come on, Gar.

Come on, man.

There's a war on.

BILL: Twirk it, Gar!

[Laughter and chatter] GROUP: Whoa!

GROUP: Heeeeeey!

KEVIN: What's that called?

JIMMY: Oh it's flossin'.

KEVIN: Oh, flossing.

[Laughter] BARB: Um, we came when my parents were still here, and they came first, and then we came.

BRENT: The Pirher's were here, which is my grandmother's cousin.

So, they bought a place.

LORI: My brother's on the corner.

I'm here.

My son's two down from me.

BRENT: Butch Swider, who is Lance's father, bought a place.

[Gentle guitar music plays] And then Pat and Juice bought a place.

LORI: My brother's brother-in-law, it was his...him and his girlfriend.

Then they got married, here.

Um... LOU: We have some very good neighbors.

Uh, we've had 'em on both sides of the road.

[Dog barks] MARY: Thank you!

LOU: We had, uh, Jim and Lee Bren.

[Dog barks again] LOU: Uh, Stanley and Kim.

Over there.

CHRIS: George and Jean.

John Brett and... MARY: Leslie.

CHRIS: Leslie.

Um... MARY: Janice and Ed.

LOU: Iggy and Aggie Krumski?

ANNABELLE: I'm using my neighbor's refrigerator.

PAUL: She hasn't even been down.

You haven't even met them yet, I don't think.

ANNABELLE: I don't think you've met them before, but they haven't been down, and the door is unlocked... [Indistinct chatter] [Man laughs] MARY: Xena!

[Claps] MARY: Come here, Xena!

CHRIS: Mary and I have lived in a house with everybody.

MARY: We've taken in all the strays.

CHRIS: And Mary and I always had a strong relationship.

We lost touch with that.

So, when we came down here, it was just her and I. I didn't want to have to deal with friends [Mary giggles] because Mary and I are getting quality time together, you know.

Uh we- I actually had, uh, names for the rooms in here.

And one of the names for one of the rooms was the naked room because- MARY: You get out of the shower, hang out in the naked room.

Then what happened was- CHRIS: I foiled my plan myself.

MARY: He started talking to the people.

CHRIS: Well, Ja- yes, I did start talking to people.

MARY: You did.

DIANE: Ahoy!

How's it goin', Captain?

[Indistinct chatter] MARY: I hate the thought, of sayin' goodbye to all these good people.

I hate it.

I think it just, stinks.

[Driving rock music plays] [Horn honks] [Motorbike engine rumbles] PARTY GROUP: Woooo!

Heeeeeey!

[Kids laughing] [Party chatter] [Horn honks] [Woman laughs] STACIE: Ah!

Oh, my gosh!

JACKIE: We're on TV!

PARTYGOER: Everything you say is sexual.

RICKY: But it's real.

[Indistinct chatter and laughter continues] [Motorcycle engine revs] JOSH: I swear to God!

[Chatter and laughter continue] CYNTHIA: That tattoo artist [indistinct] at the Mad Hatter?

PARTYGOER: Get away from me!

RICKY: I got to get on the other way.

This bitch sits sideways!

I got the sideways.

[Indistinct chatter and laughter continue] MELANIE: The generations that have been...

So, I was tellin' them: first love, first heartbreak, first sex, first drunk.

Right here.

SCOTTY: Oh, oh, hey, hey!

CATHY: Hell, yesss!

[Indistinct chatter] WOMAN: Everybody get in!

COLIE: Now you done blocked up all my [deleted].

STACIE: Aaah, she's coming in too.

Hell, yeah!

Whooooo!

[Jackie and Stacie laugh] SCOTTY: Look!

She's got pants on, I got shorts.

GARY: Huh?

SCOTTY: Is that a proposition or a proposal or- NEIGHBOR: No.

You can take it however you want to.

[Scotty laughs] SCOTTY: Hell no, you need hip [deleted] waders- CATHY: Hip waders!

GARY: I'm-I'm working on this other project with him.

SCOTTY: Ahhhh.

CATHY: Have you paid him?

Hell, at this point, I cut grass.

I weed whack.

I landscape.

I clean, I cook.

I do whatever the hell, except for prostitution.

Whatever the hell- JIMMY: There goes that night.

GARY: [laughing] Yeah, there goes that day.

JIMMY: I went to the ATM- I went to the ATM for nothin'.

[Gary laughs] SCOTTY: Yeah.

GARY: Went to the ATM for nothing.

JIMMY: I went to the ATM for nothin'.

SCOTTY: I was wondering why we were stopping here.

[Group laughs] GARY: I'll tell you, the way we got enough Deet around here, there ain't nobody around.

SCOTTY: Hey, Amy, is this thing runnin'?

AMY: Yeah.

GARY: Aw!

CATHY: Is it really?

GARY: No way.

Aw no!

[Group laughs] GARY: No, no, no, no!

Aw, nooo!

CATHY: Come on!

GARY: Sheez.

JIMMY: Just say no to crack!

[Group laughs] JIMMY and CATHY: [in unison] Crack kills!

JIMMY: Oh, you're cracking me up.

JIMMY: You're cracking me up.

GARY: You're cracking me up.

[Seagulls caw] [Indistinct chatter] PAULA: We used to always come down to my brother's house, which is two doors down, and we would stay with them.

PAM: They kept their eyes open because they knew we wanted to be right... PAM: Here.

PAULA: Close to them.

PAM: In the campground, this was the street we wanted to live on.

[Mosquito sprayer buzzes] [Brushes cards] PAM: Nope.

I need cards, Paula.

PAM: The first time we looked at this place, it was way out of our price range.

This place went up for sale again, and it was, like, half the price of what it was the first time.

PAULA: Yeah, right.

PAM: She sold it with everything.

PAULA: Oh, my God.

You wouldn't believe.

PAM: We got a crock pot.

We got a brand new electric frying pan.

PAULA: Dishes, uh, towels, sheets, um, a vacuum cleaner, TV.

PAULA: She left it all.

PAM: She left it all.

[Indistinct chatter] PAULA: We've met such nice people.

Oh, my gosh.

That's the hard- that's gonna be the hard part.

[Chuckles] 'Cause you can't wait 'til the spring to see everybody and find out how their winter went and everything.

And it's just like, it's not gonna be there anymore.

It's like ehhhh!

[Chuckles softly] Yeah.

I know.

So, yep.

[Children indistinctly chatter] GARY: You know, I just kind of roll with it myself.

We ain't got no choice.

DIANE: You see somebody built a duck blind out there?

On the- On the sandbar.

GARY: Oh, yeah!

GARY: Probably rented every place in this campground.

Then we were leavin' one day and seen a for sale sign on this for $6,500.

And we did it.

DIANE: Oh, look.

There they are.

GARY: When I grew up, we- there was a place called Miller's Island.

And they had all these little waterfront shacks.

And, you know, my parents would rent one for a week.

And you're on the water.

Man, you got to be on the water for a week for hardly any money.

And...a-and now it's all these big fancy homes.

That's what I'm talkin' about.

Same thing here.

[Seagulls caw] [Soda tab cracks] [Ethan slurps] ETHAN: [Clears throat] This is my grandma's trailer.

And um, it's very beautiful and nice.

There's some secret up here that I've thought, it-it's my favorite thing of the whole entire trailer, except this can turn into a bed.

And if you look up here, this is where you used to, um, be able to play music.

And Grandma covered that so I couldn't get in there and no- MARSHA: That's your little cubbyhole, huh?

ETHAN: And um, if you want to come over here, you could see this stuff.

This is our, um, our salt and pepper shakes.

This is a little light that you can turn on.

You could turn that on in the middle of the night for a nightlight, in case you wanna come out here and get a drink.

Well, if you want to get in here and make a nice little bed, you can get in there and make a nice little bed.

Put a pillow and a blanket, and you're good.

Put your baby up there.

[Laughs] Put a baby up there and somethin'.

It's empty.

MARSHA: Yup, I took it all home.

MARSHA: All right, if you're gonna throw it in, throw it in.

ETHAN: One more I want to put in.

MARSHA: Nope.

There's no more.

Not right now.

We gotta let it burn.

It has to burn down so we can- [Ethan sings] ♪ Let it burn, let it burn.

♪ ♪ Let it burn, let it burn.

♪ ETHAN: Ok, Grandma.

MAN: You got it?

WOMAN: I got it.

[Splash] MAN: Lock it in this time.

[Laughs] WOMAN: [Indistinct] BEN: That was a pretty walk back.

[Crickets chirp] [Grass rustles] [Moody textured music plays] [Laughter] KEVIN: Gotta go when you gotta go.

Come on, Weezy.

APRIL: Ah ah, this way.

This way.

[Whistles] CATHY: It's gettin' hot over here too, baby.

[Laughs] [Laughter] KEVIN: Alright, it's good.

CATHY: This is nothin' but love n' fun.

[Crackle of firewood] [Wood crashes] [Group laughs] CATHY: You better make that right!

KEVIN: Timbeeeeeeeeeer!

[Group laughs] CHRISANNE: To do this every day is something.

[Poignant piano music plays] [Bike spokes whir] [Men laugh] SCOTTY: [indistinct] ...the first thing that pops up.

GARY: A whiz.

Damn!

DYLAN: [sings] "All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth" [Laughter] SCOTTY: Hey, you want a bottom plate?

[Men laugh] SCOTTY: I got a top plate too.

Y'know.

DYLAN: Top and bottom, right?

TIM: She went across from uh Castaways and went over the beach with Mark and, and Kim.

And she brought a bag of mini carrots.

SAM: Yeah, because we didn't have regular carrots.

And I was like, "Who brings mini carrots when... TIM: And they started feeding the horses, and then all these horses, they were like seagulls.

They all came in, and they all started to buck.

They're- a couple of them went up on their hind legs.

SAM: [Laughing] It was really pretty scary.

TIM: It was scary.

The whole thing was like, "Why'd you bring mini carrots?

Next time, bring the big carrots."

[Laughs] CINDY: I wonder why you did the dishes finally?

[Indistinct chatter] [Fire crackles] COLIE: Jimmy and Freda put their place up for sale last weekend, man.

FRANK: Really?

Yeah, I saw that.

Yeah.

COLIE: Yeah.

Well, I-I imagine you can pull that trailer.

Some of them can move, but you ain't making it to T's Corner with it.

TIM: Gary's been here for a long time.

[Indistinct chatter] SAM: Thirty eight years.

TIM: He was the start.

Yeah.

BRETT: Well, he's the same- he's the same amount as me.

TIM: Yeah.

SAM: You've been coming thirty-eight years, Brett?

BRETT: Yeah.

SAM: Is that- how old are you?

BRETT: Forty-two.

[Indistinct chatter] [Sound of bike tires on dirt] [Fire roars and crackles] KID 1: Why do you guys burn yours?

KALINA: Fire!

KID 2: They taste a lot better when they're burnt.

Maybe not to you, but they're really good burnt.

[Woosh from torch] [Acoustic guitar plays "Crocodile Rock"] ♪ Hey, ah, la, la, laaa La, la, la, la, laaaa ♪ ♪ La, la, la, la, laaaa ♪ ♪ Oh I say laaa La, la, la, la, laaaa ♪ LANCE: We're here until the sun comes up.

♪ La, la, la, la, laaaaa ♪ ANNA: Are you ok going down by yourself?

You want me to drive you home?

[Chuckles] Take your life in your hands?

[Laughs] [Men chatter] KEVIN: All right, well, I'll see yous all in the morning.

GARY: Brody!

BILL: Eight thirty out front here.

KEVIN: I'll be out there.

CELESTE: No, you won't.

He won't.

KEVIN: We're going sharkin' tomorrow.

GARY: Really?

Out in the boat or what?

KEVIN: Yeah.

GARY: Really?

[Thunder rumbles] [Lightning cracks and thunder continues] [Rain patters on water] [Flagpole clanks and flag flutters in wind] MAN: Who's playing?

WOMAN: [indistinct] MARY: Five cards.

Follow the lady.

ANNA: Follow the lady.

Five-card stud, it's called, right?

CAROLE: No, two cards should be up.

MARY: No, it's three cards if my memory...

Does everything go down?

Two cards up and the rest down.

ANNA: Ok, put two of your cards up.

Everybody puts two cards up.

CAROLE: Yeah.

MARY: So, two down is first?

TOM: Yep.

MARY: Oh.

And it's not right?

But if it's not right, didn't she have to re-deal?

CAROLE: It is right.

ANNA: It's right now.

I did re-deal, Mary.

TOM: Mary says you forgot how to play.

CAROLE: It's been a year.

MARY: Just need a refresher course.

[Pitter patter of rain] MARY: I'm still in.

TOM: You're up, Mary.

You got three tens... MARY: You got three tens showing.

[Coins plink on table] CAROLE: Tom bet a nickel, Mary.

MARY: I'm bettin' a dime.

CAROLE: Why?

MARY: 'Cause you don't know what my hold cards are.

ANNA: Alright, show your hands.

Show them like you got 'em.

MARY: I got a flush.

TOM: You don't have to worry about 'em cheatin' 'cause they're on film.

ANNA: Good thing we're not playing for big money.

Or the dealer would get shot.

[Laughs] MARY: You aren't kiddin'.

[Frogs sing] CAROLE: Pair of tens!

ANNA: You get no more cards, right?

TOM: She said five cards.

CAROLE: I thought we get one down.

TOM: All right I'm betting a dime.

MARY: [Laughs] This is crazy!

[Birds chirp] [Waves lap] [Seagull caws] JANET: [On phone] Well, mm-hmm.

It may change.

Mm-hmm, and they're supposed to send me something tomorrow.

Tomorrow morning.

They're supposed to, uh, send me some information tomorrow morning, an update.

That's what they told me, mm-hmm.

They said it's closing down after the 1st, uh-huh, and then uh, they're going to, uh, redevelop it.

And what they're going to redevelop it as, um, has yet to be determined.

Yeahh.

And honestly, I'm just going by what they're telling me.

Ok?

And you're certainly welcome.

Thank you for calling.

Mm-hmm, bye-bye.

[Tires crunch on gravel] [Pensive guitar music plays] [Truck motor rumbles] [Birds chirp and waves lap] [Indistinct radio chatter] [Seagulls caw] [Boat motor rumbles quietly] [in the distance] DALE: Cannonball!

[Splash] That good?

All right.

Ready?

Three, two, one, go!

[Big splash] MOM: Dale, you rotten turd.

[Children laugh] GIRL 1: Fiona, I got it.

GIRL 2: All right.

Pull your shirt down.

BOY 1: Swim.

[Indistinct chatter] BOY 2: Second!

PATTI: It has grown up.

DARLENE: Yeah.

PATTI: But then now it's to be gone.

DARLENE: I mean- PATTI: To grow up is one thing, but to be gone, it- It's very sad and heartbreaking.

DARLENE: And I really was hoping that somebody would have took it over that just was gonna make it nicer.

PATTI: Maintain it for what it is.

DARLENE: Not, like, get rid of all of us.

[Children yelling] [Splashing] DARLENE: Some people who have older campers here, but they're nice.

People put a lot of their hard-earned money into it, and now you just gotta walk away from it.

PATTI: Yeah.

DARLENE: In my opinion, I just feel it's a little unfair.

PATTI: Sad.

DARLENE: What, honey, what?

PATTI: Very sad.

[Splashing] BOY 3: I'm getting used to it!

[Door squeaks open and closes] [Birds sing] [Lighter clicks twice] ARLA: I have been coming since I was six years old.

[Child yells] [Splash in pool] ARLA: And I'd rather be here than anywhere else in the world.

[Squeaking] ARLA: They don't think about us little people.

And that's what we are to them.

We're little people.

[Seagulls caw] [Boat engine rumbles] BRETT: He always had to go out on the boat with food, so my grandfather, he would always offer.

"Oh, you have to have fried bologna sandwiches."

A-y'know, and she's lookin' and I'm like, "Yeah, I'll take one with mustard."

And Alison's like, "Uhhh, nya..." You know, and then she's like, "No, I'm ok." And he's like, "All right, how about fried jelly doughnuts?"

[Boat engine revs] BRETT: They had to be stale, and then he would fry them in butter.

ALISON: They're so good.

JOE: His- his grandfather's generation built these bulkheads, built these docks, built these rooms.

[Birds chirp and waves lap] [Storm door creaks and clicks closed] ANNA: When my husband passed, I thought, there's no way I can come down here.

ANNA: [on phone] And now you're not coming back 'til Monday or Tuesday?

ANNA: No way.

ANNA: Come on in, Joy!

ANNA: I didn't think I'd be able to make it by myself.

DIANE: [on phone] Bills taken care of.

JOY: All right, all right.

[Anna giggling] JOY: Who you talkin' to?

ANNA: Diane.

JOY: Hi, Diane!

ANNA: He's been gone now for almost 12 years, and I have become a social butterfly.

[Giggles] DIANE: [on phone] Yeah, I think about you guys.

MARY: There's a lot of people who passed away while we were here.

JOE: Yeah.

MARY: And the other half still come, which is nice.

JOE: There's siblings.

MARY: Now their kids are coming.

That's what we wanted.

We wanted our children, which they're in their 30s now, and with their grandchildren- with my grandchildren.

JOE: Three generations.

MARY: Yup.

Three generations now.

I think that's really what it is.

I love coming here because we're all together in a little trailer, all six of us, four dogs- JOE: Four kids.

MARY: Four grandchildren, in a little trailer.

ANNA: But now the friends, the friends- it's just- it's just...

I'm gonna start cryin'.

The friends that we've made down here are just phenomenal.

So it's just gonna be super, super sad.

But what are you gonna do?

It's happening to all of us, not just me.

It's all of us.

And I'm gonna try to enjoy each and every day down here 'til it ends.

MARY and ALISON: [In unison] Whoooo!

[Laughing] [Rumble of jet ski] ALISON: We're having a bit of technical difficulty.

MARY: Please stand by.

LINDSAY: Hold the rope, damnit.

ALISON: Watch the train car, please.

Watch the train car.

MARY: I got to get rid of the salt water.

[Laughter and playful yelling] MARY: Did she say Fireball?

ANNA: Mary says, yeah, I'm all for it.

MARY: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

[Indistinct party chatter] JOE: Who's chicken now, Joy?

JOY: Ehhhhh.

Ehhhhh.

[Laughter] LINDSAY: She's real rich, that girl.

Yeah, she's real rich.

[Laughter] MARY: Wait, should I advertise for White Claw?

[laughs] LINDSAY: Can you get us some White Claw?

[Mary laughs] ALISON: What's your name, by the way?

Do you know where the Statue of Liberty is?

LINDSAY: Is it this way?

Wait.

MARY: Oh, my God.

We're moving fast, Aunt Ali.

ALICIA: I know, and I'm not helping.

[Mary laughs] LINDSAY: Winnie is the lead horse here.

I'm the conductor on- on the gravy train here.

Let's go, ladies.

MARY: Woosh, woosh, woosh, woosh!

ALISON: Whooo!

This is our afternoon water aerobics.

ALISON: Water aerobics, girls.

Come on!

Let's go!

Whoo!

MARY: All right.

Come on!

Let's go!

ALISON: Wait!

[Roar of jet ski] [Brakes squeal] [Beer tab cracks] SANDY: We've only got 44 days.

That's it.

BARB: Ah!

Don't start a countdown.

SANDY: That's it.

SHOPPER: Bye.

KEVIN: All right, see you.

Have a nice day.

SHOPPER: You too.

[Droning ethereal music plays] KEVIN: Take a glass of water with you.

It's free.

[Child laughs] LORI: When you look out in the yard, you see different birthdays that you celebrated here, or holidays, or friends doing anniversary parties.

LORI: You goin' back to the pool?

LORI: Doing wedding receptions.

AIDEN: Still swimmin'.

LORI: It's the first time I brought my grandson.

You have water?

You know, the first time my kids came down with me.

AIDEN: No, I'm good on that.

I'll get that later.

LORI: No?

AIDEN: No, I'll get that later.

LORI: Just all the memories.

[Lawn mower motor rumbles] TAMMY: I can't live in the jungle.

RICKY: This girl is tired, of frickin' movin'.

Ok, let's move this table so I can get my baby before I leave.

I'm very sad to leave, and I got to take my baby with me.

So she's down, ready to go.

[Lightly chuckles] She's going out the door with me.

Can you see her, girl?

[chuckles] This crab was made from McDonald's box in Pennsylvania.

You got me?

[Car door closes and engine turns over] RICKY: Ok. She's gone.

TAMMY: I wish somebody would have took that lighthouse on there because it's beautiful.

But I think they done moved all their stuff out.

So I'm hoping somebody'll repurpose it.

I hope it don't get chopped up.

Some beautiful places are just not gonna be salvageable.

But, that's how life is.

Sometimes we have our sad moments, and we make some new ones that are happy.

[Lawnmower squeaks] [Screen door squeaks] LISA: My father, he would call me at work on a Friday and say, "Hey Sis, let's go to the beach."

He was a handyman, carpenter by trade.

The room that we're sitting in, we all helped him build.

He would get scrap from on the jobs that they were throwing away, so it had- was remnants of pieces.

LISA: He passed away 10 years ago.

Um.

[Whispers] Sorry.

[Sniffs] [Breathes in] Yup.

[Wind chimes tinkle] It's all his handiwork.

[Sniffs] [Wind chimes tinkle] [Seagulls caw] [Banging noise] [Drill whirs] [Fabric shifting] COLIE: Turn it loose, damn it.

[Table leg thumps into bucket] [Drill ratchets] JACKIE: I found my peace here.

Peace in my soul.

No stress.

[Chuckles] COLIE: Yup.

JACKIE: Yeah.

We've met a lot of good people here, a lot of good friends we've made.

[Drill whirs] [Metal banging] Yep, just- and good friends.

Not just, you know, acquaintances.

Good friends.

[Drill whirs] JEAN: Well, and it's just like Carl.

I mean, we met him the first time we were here, and we've got a lifelong friend - I mean, we've become very good friends.

[Purple Martins chirp] One year, we didn't put our purple martin house up.

[Purple Martins chirp] JEAN: And I happened to look up.

There's a commode up here on top of a pole.

[laughing] A camper toilet.

We knew right away who had done it.

He and Tom snuck up here.

But we left it up, and we had a sparrow that built a nest in it.

JOE: Sparrow made a home.

JEAN: Yeah.

JOE: Yup, in the toilet.

JEAN: Yeah.

TOM: Carl, he put a weathervane up here on his roof, and then he put one over here on Jack's roof.

And I says, "Oh, I see how you are.

Cause you put one on his roof, and you put one on that roof, and the heck with me."

So... CARL: I said I was gonna- I was gonna make him one.

TOM: Right.

CARL: And it was gonna be one that he could remember.

TOM: Well, me and Mary come ridin' down the road here, and I looked up.

I says, "What in the heck is that?"

And she said, "Looks like a trash can."

[Carl laughs] TOM: And when I got here, I said, "It is a trash can."

CARL: And I've had two commercial ones on my roof, and that's outlasted all of 'em.

[Playful music plays] [Indistinct chatter] BARB: C'mon.

MAN: Archie, come here.

BARB: Here.

Now sit down.

Ah-ah!

Come here.

[Indistinct chatter] CRABBER 1: Oh, there's one on this one.

CRABBER 2: Is there?

CRABBER 1: Uh-huh.

[Boat horn blows] [Indistinct conversation] GROUP: Ahoy, Captain Barry!

CAPTAIN BARRY: Ahoy, Maties!

[Boat horn blows] [Blows on shell] [Laughter] EDDIE: You got something out of it!

Very good.

KALINA: LJ, no.

Not with this one.

With yours.

LJ: No, I was gonna pick him up for you.

KALINA: This one's a girl, and- LJ: No, no.

This one's a boy.

He's gonna pinch me.

KALINA: He has- their- they have really strong pincers.

LJ: They're gonna mate soon.

KALINA: LJ, stop!

[Rustling in sink] LISA: There was always, like, fifteen of us here.

Um, the more, the merrier.

My dad would invite people from other campsites in, and we'd feed 'em all.

LISA: It was nice because, you know, everyone was together.

Plenty of room at our table.

And my grandfather would say, "I wonder what the poor people are eating."

And one of us would say whatever we were having for dinner.

He'd say, "Yup.

You're right!"

[Indistinct chatter] [Dog barks] WOMAN: Whatever it is... [Indistinct] WOMAN: Yeah I like it!

ANNA: You want me to carry this over for you?

EDDIE: No, I'll carry it.

ANNA: Got it?

JACKIE: Yeeeeahhh.

Amy, did you eat?

All right, who's got the butter?

KALINA: I got the butter.

DARLENE'S BROTHER: Do you want more corn?

GIRL: No!

DARLENE'S BROTHER: Come on.

You can do one more.

GIRL: No!

DIANA: The corn was so good.

WOMAN: Did you go get something to drink, babe?

Did you ask the girls for water or something?

DARLENE'S BROTHER: There's beer in there.

WOMAN: There's ice.

There might be juice.

Oh, there's, uh, Sunny Delight if you like that.

GIRL: Don't take that dog out.

DARLENE'S BROTHER: Don't take that dog out.

GIRL: Let me... KEVIN: He comes back.

He's eating it.

She's like, "Where's mine?"

Like, his last bite, he's like, "I didn't get you one."

She's like, "Why?"

[Grunts] [Chuckles] PAUL: Hey, buddy!

[Howls] [Guitar music] [Indistinct chatter continue] [Birds chirp] [Door shuts] [Dog barks] [Water laps] [Guitar melody swells] [Sizzling] [Laughter and chatter continue] [Strumming guitar] LANCE: I just remembered the chorus.

WOMAN: I just had an emergency marshmallow request.

[Lance chuckles] ETHAN: This is our dog, Sunshine.

She's quite a cutie too.

I made her birthday the same day as mine, so... We're gonna go to the store and get her a little toy for her birthday.

She loves little sticks, so I thought, why don't we get her a stick?

I'm gonna get her a nice, blue stick, and stuff.

[Grunts] [Indistinct chatter and laughing] TOM: You think they throw the meat away?

MARY: Yeah, you don't eat raccoon.

[Overlapping chatter] [Crickets chirp] [Woman cheering] [Scooter motor rumbles] [Fireworks pop] [Group cheers] [Firework whistles] [Solo piano arpeggios begin] BRODY: The next one is called the Hammerhead Shark.

Ok, ready, steady- whoa!

[Fireworks sizzle] ALISON: Whoo!

BRETT: Whoo!

MARY: Wooooo-ooooo!

[Fireworks whistle and crackle] [Sparkler hisses] [Firework pops and then crackles] [Piano music swells] [Fireworks crackle] [Piano music continues] [Fireworks pop, whistle, explode and crackle] [People yell and cheer] CROWD: Whooooa!

LANCE: All right!

WOMAN: That was awesome!

[Clapping] WOMAN: Is there more?

[Crickets chirp] [Waves lap] [Waves lap] [Chimes ring] RITA: "Happiness and the Skipper," a poem about being blessed.

She walks her dog as the setting sun glistens on the water.

She smiles as she glances over the bay.

She thinks about her life.

She recalls all the bittersweet days and mixes them [voice breaks] with all of her days of happiness.

She remembers when her heart was heavy, but now she has found herself.

She no longer searches for her answers, she has found happiness.

She has stood tall within herself, and she has been rewarded.

[Chimes ring] She sits at the table and gazes out the window.

She looks out over the water and bursts into laughter.

She is in awe of her happiness.

She is in awe of being blessed.

And as she begins walking her dog, the setting sun glistens on the water.

Remember the skipper.

MARY: The armpit.

[chuckles] Right, Chris?

CHRIS: The armpit of America.

[Hydraulics rumble] [Birds chip] [Quiet sorrowful music plays] RUSTY: Thank you.

[Water runs and dishes clank] [Light clicks] [Storm door squeaks] [Footsteps through water] [Seagulls cawing] JOE: 8/15 of '15.

This one is from John and Lindsay.

"It's always bittersweet writing in - writing in the book because I know it's time to go home.

Our fifth summer in Vig- in Virginia was the best.

We had such good company with my parents coming down," that's Lindsay's parents, "Ed being here, and nice party for Janice and Ed.

For the first time ever, we saw dolphins every day.

That was such an amazing experience."

[Voice breaks] I can't do it.

[Sniffs] [Drill whirs] KIM: Not my little home anymore.

My little tiny house.

[Hammering] PAUL: It's emptying out, boy.

[laughs] Oh, my God.

Where did we get all this stuff?

ANNABELLE: Years of accumulation.

CATHY: Well, what can I help you with?

What's left?

SANDY: Ok. CATHY: I'm gonna miss you.

[Engine turns over] KIM'S FRIEND: I don't know why I'm even cleaning up.

But I'm just gonna take this up to the trash.

Seems like the right thing to do.

KIM: Yeah.

Does it?

KIM'S FRIEND: Wow.

Over there, it's like devastation.

[Hammering] AMY: How do you feel, Paul?

PAUL: With my hands.

Eeh...what can I say?

ANNABELLE: Paul, do you have more long straps?

PAUL: No, not long ones.

ANNABELLE: You have another long strap, Paul?

PAUL: I don't.

I gave you everything I had.

[Door closes] I don't know.

I have mixed emotions.

I mean, all these people are from different backgrounds, different states, and yet they have a common interest.

And that is to socialize.

When you come here and all that shell cracks, and they come out of their shell and they become actual human beings.

[Laughter] Now, I'm gonna go back to, uh, reality.

Some sort of life, but it's not- I don't know.

It's just... living.

[Somber drone] [Trailer door squeaks] ANNABELLE: We need more- another strap.

PAUL: [Laughs] I'm the strap guy.

[Mournful droning music plays] [Trailer door slams] [Stairs squeak] MICHELLE: [grunts] Oh, my God, they haven't been folded up for a while.

[chuckles] [Door creaks] TEENAGER: [smooches] Come on.

DAD: All right, got everything packed up.

TEENAGER: Come on, baby.

[smooches] [Dog barks] DAD: Time to go, Bella.

PAUL: The wagon train is leaving.

ANNABELLE: Yup.

It's been great.

PAUL: Yup.

[Door creaks and slams] [Indistinct conversation] GUY: It was a pleasure, my friend.

Thanks for everything.

TIM: Likewise.

All the best to you.

GUY: Thank you.

Good luck, you guys.

TIM: Thanks.

You, too.

DYLAN: It's- it's minus one.

You gotta step onto this, and then you gotta step onto this.

[Truck engine turns over] [Tires crunch on gravel] [Metal squeaks] [Seagulls caw] [Metal of camper crunches and Bobcat rumbles] DYLAN: [in distance] Hey!

[Metal creaks and squeals] [Faint radio plays in background] SANDY: Chh, it sucks.

This sucks.

Absolutely sucks.

And none of this is gonna be here when we move out.

There will be nothing here.

Anything that's left, we're gonna destroy because there will not be anybody gonna come in here and make money off of what I have.

None of it will be used.

None of it.

Jimmy's gonna take his all the way down to the ground.

Oh, no.

We're pissed.

Does that have volume, too?

Are they hearing me?

[Engine roars as metal scrapes and crunches] [Truck engines accelerate] CHRISANNE: All right, bye, Annabelle, Paul!

JOY: Bye!

CHRISANNE: Bye.

Be safe.

[Car horn beeps twice] [Seagulls caw] [Truck horn honks twice and engine rumbles] [Leaves rustle] [Man blows on harmonica] [Singing] ♪ It's time to say goodbye ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ To all my friends ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ I've been here so long ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Way, way, way, way too long ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Your heavy, heavy, heavy heart ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ My tears ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Ohh ♪ ♪ ♪ [Shorebirds and geese call] [Dramatic guitar plays] [Pounding of sledgehammer] [Indistinct chatter] [Fire roars and crackles] GARY: Watch the flames!

[Laughter] [Boards thud] [Guitar builds in intensity] [Crickets chirping softly] KIM: My sister, who the family calls the Duchess, is very particular.

[Laughs] I have an outdoor shower.

So I have everybody, if they're here they sh- must shower outside.

So the first couple days, she's like, "Oh, I can't do it.

I'm not gonna take a shower outside.

I gotta take a shower outside?"

I think around three days, I'm like, "You got to go put your funky butt [laughs] in the shower, 'cause you can't be walking around, like, smellin'."

So she went out, and she took a shower, and she's like, "Oh, my God, that was fabulous!"

[Laughs] Her daughter, her eldest daughter, was diagnosed in 2014 of breast cancer.

My sister was diagnosed in 2016.

My niece uh, died in 2017, and my sister died in 2018.

From breast cancer.

And... in her will, she asked for her ashes, to be placed here.

[Beeping] [Excavator rumbles] [Crash of building] ["Everything I Own" by The Sea The Sea plays] ♪ You sheltered me from harm ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Kept me warm ♪ ♪ Kept me warm ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ You gave my life to me ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Set me free ♪ ♪ Set me free ♪ ♪ The finest years I ever knew ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Were all the years I had with you ♪ ♪ And I would give anything I own ♪ ♪ Give up my life, my heart, my home ♪ ♪ I would give everything I own ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Just to have you back again ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ You taught me how to love ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ What it's of ♪ ♪ What it's of ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ You never said too much but still you showed the way ♪ ♪ And I knew ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ From watching you ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Nobody else could ever know ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ The part of me that can't let go ♪ ♪ And I would give anything I own ♪ ♪ Give up my life, my heart, my home ♪ ♪ I would give everything I own ♪ ♪ Just to have you, back again ♪ ♪ Is there someone you know ♪ ♪ You're loving them so ♪ ♪ But taking them all for granted ♪ ♪ You may lose them one day ♪ ♪ Someone takes them away ♪ ♪ And they don't hear the words you long to say ♪ ♪ I would give anything I own ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Give up my life, my heart, my home ♪ ♪ I would give everything I own ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ Just to have you back again ♪ ♪ Just to touch you Once again ♪ [Chorus of insects]