I grew up in Oregon, where as a teenager I worked with my grandfather Axel on his i shing boat at the mouth of the Columbia River.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I grew up in Southern Oregon. My father was a sawmill worker and a logger, and his job put food on the table.
I've been on my grandfather's boat, Calypso, twice in my life. My mother raised me in a pretty typical middle-class life.
I grew up in West Palm Beach, Florida. My dad took me hunting, trapping and fishing when I was a kid.
I grew up sailing in the North Sea.
I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.
I grew up in western Oregon, just outside Eugene, on 27 wooded acres that served as my playground.
My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom's cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop.
I grew up in a trailer park in Bellingham, Washington.
I grew up in trailer houses in New Mexico, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma.
When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.