My first years were spent living just as my forefathers had lived - roaming the green, rolling hills of what are now the states of South Dakota and Nebraska.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.
My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods.
I grew up in a small town in northeastern Indiana. I had an all-American childhood. And I grew up as an optimist.
I live in the house my great-grandfather moved to in 1865... I spent all my summers here as a kid haying with my grandfather, and it was my favorite place in the world.
When I was a little kid we moved to Tulsa, then to St. Louis and, by the time I was in kindergarten, we lived in Springfield, Missouri. There I basically grew up.
Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
I was born in Rocky Mount, NC. The town of 24,000 proved a great place to spend the first 17 years of life. But, after that, onward, outward.
I grew up all over the place, but the majority of my years were spent in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school.
I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.