My friend Avery told me she'd lived in 22 places by the time she was 20. Here's my history:
Born at 1503 S. Summit Avenue, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
When I was 11 or 12, we moved kitty-corner across the street to 812 W. 23rd.
Left at 18 for Snyder-Phillips Hall (part of the residential college Justin Morrill, which was actually pretty cool, even tho I hated college & dropped out ASAP)
The House in Severn, MD, which I shared with a bunch of Air Force guys I met at an antiwar demonstration in D.C.
Briefly back to Michigan & then Sioux Falls, where I bought Ernest, a 1950 Dodge schoolbus, which I lived in for the next year in Sioux Falls, Rapid City (SD), Denver, Boulder & Longmont, Colorado.
Then LeRoy, a 1954 Ford F-100, on which we built a little camper barn to live in from Colorado to Michigan by way of California.
A co-op in East Lansing (Elutheria?)
A place in Lansing next to a Long John Silver (ugh)
"Idiot's Point," Prospect, Maine (near Bucksport), a 1-room A-frame shared by 5 people
A big house on the Castine Road, West Penobscot, Maine
Vonda & Peter Sendzimir's cabin on Flying Moose Mountain, East Holden, Maine ("last person who tried to spend a winter there, he was hauled off to the loony bin, ayuh"--the postmaster of E. Holden)
The Wing Estate, State Street, Bangor, Maine
Billy (last name?)'s cabin deep in the woods, Lamoine, Maine
A rooming house in Ellsworth, Maine
A share on Thompson Street, West Village, NYC
The Ezra Pound, 27 First Avenue, New York, NY, January 1977-present
I am forgetting at least one long-term place in Maine & possibly elsewhere; am omitting some longish-term stretches, such as the month or 2 I worked at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill; & I guess not counting regular lengthy visits over decades to places I love, such as Steve's place in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and Blue Mountain Lake, in the Adirondacks.
Born at 1503 S. Summit Avenue, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
When I was 11 or 12, we moved kitty-corner across the street to 812 W. 23rd.
Left at 18 for Snyder-Phillips Hall (part of the residential college Justin Morrill, which was actually pretty cool, even tho I hated college & dropped out ASAP)
The House in Severn, MD, which I shared with a bunch of Air Force guys I met at an antiwar demonstration in D.C.
Briefly back to Michigan & then Sioux Falls, where I bought Ernest, a 1950 Dodge schoolbus, which I lived in for the next year in Sioux Falls, Rapid City (SD), Denver, Boulder & Longmont, Colorado.
Then LeRoy, a 1954 Ford F-100, on which we built a little camper barn to live in from Colorado to Michigan by way of California.
A co-op in East Lansing (Elutheria?)
A place in Lansing next to a Long John Silver (ugh)
"Idiot's Point," Prospect, Maine (near Bucksport), a 1-room A-frame shared by 5 people
A big house on the Castine Road, West Penobscot, Maine
Vonda & Peter Sendzimir's cabin on Flying Moose Mountain, East Holden, Maine ("last person who tried to spend a winter there, he was hauled off to the loony bin, ayuh"--the postmaster of E. Holden)
The Wing Estate, State Street, Bangor, Maine
Billy (last name?)'s cabin deep in the woods, Lamoine, Maine
A rooming house in Ellsworth, Maine
A share on Thompson Street, West Village, NYC
The Ezra Pound, 27 First Avenue, New York, NY, January 1977-present
I am forgetting at least one long-term place in Maine & possibly elsewhere; am omitting some longish-term stretches, such as the month or 2 I worked at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill; & I guess not counting regular lengthy visits over decades to places I love, such as Steve's place in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and Blue Mountain Lake, in the Adirondacks.