I was born in 1942 in Corinth, Mississippi. Both of my parents, all four of my grandparents, and many of my ancestors from two previous generations were born within 50 miles of Corinth. The Corinth I grew up in bears little resemblance, in my subjective view, to the city that is there today. The tourism council has a web site at http://www.corinth.net/; in my youth, I don't remember the obsessive interest in things Civil War. A group called the Corinth Alliance has another introductory site at http://www.corinth.ms/. An interesting, if dated, site is http://mlsandy.home.tsixroads.com/Corinth_MLSANDY/.
Due to deep roots in the area, Corinth was always "home", though I actually lived there for only a few years. My father was in the Air Force for most of my pre-college years, so we lived in California, Virginia, New York, Michigan, Tennessee, and Japan. Upon my father's retirement from the Air Force, he and my mother lived briefly in Texas, then returned to Corinth to build a house on the farm he'd bought in 1936. He served as State Senator from Alcorn and Tippah Counties for 16 years. He was likely the only liberal Democrat in the Senate during those years.
I went to college at MIT because I (erroneously) thought I wanted to be a physicist, and because Harvard didn't offer me a scholarship. MIT was for me a good place from which to have a degree (mine was eventually in mathematics, in 1965) but a lousy place to get an education or experience the kind of college life that is generally associated with, as Oakeshott put it so beautifully, a place of learning. For a variety of reasons that may find presence here eventually, I dropped out of MIT for the 1963-64 year and worked in the Computing Division of the National Bureau of Standards in Washington, DC, taking night courses at American University and the University of Maryland. I met my first wife there.
I had intended to return to the Bureau upon graduation from MIT, but by chance got an offer from Boeing that paid a lot more, sounded interesting, and paid for my moving expenses. I planned to stay in Seattle for a few years then return to the Bureau, but after 19.5 years at Boeing, I instead took a job with Bank of America in San Francisco. While in Seattle, my first marriage broke up, but my second one, to Darlene, is still alive after almost 29 years. In 1990, I joined Xerox in Palo Alto, CA, and 11 years later retired, ultimately moving from the Bay Area to Portland, OR.