This journey started about 42 years ago in a little town of Brunswick, Georgia.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
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.
It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was very rural.
I grew up around the corner from my grandparents' dairy farm, which was three miles outside of a small town called Phoenix.
My own experience with trains dates to long-ago childhood trips with my family in Mississippi to see my grandmother off at the station in Jackson, bound for Memphis.
I was 46 when 'Cold Mountain' came out. I was settled. We had a nice house in Raleigh and a horse farm.
I was born at St. John's, where they lived for a short time.
I grew up in a town called Cornwall, Ontario, which is about an hour outside of Montreal.
I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.