I grew up around the corner from my grandparents' dairy farm, which was three miles outside of a small town called Phoenix.
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It was a small farm in a little rural town by the Indiana state border. I lived there from ages 5 to 12, I would say, before we moved to Dallas. We had chickens and a vegetable garden, and I had to get up to milk the goats at seven in the morning or do it at seven at night.
I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.
I grew up in rural Arizona. My dad ran a general store.
I grew up in the unlikely place of Connecticut. The Eastern Woodlands. It was semi-rural where I grew up. I was fascinated by the Piqua and the Mohegan Indians of that area.
I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place.
I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody.
I was raised on a little farm about 12 miles out of Portsmouth, Ohio.
I grew up in a town outside of Waco, Texas, and we had 30 acres.
I grew up in western Oregon, just outside Eugene, on 27 wooded acres that served as my playground.
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.