Soon after his birth, the family moved to the riverside community of Oulunkylä where they lived throughout his teenage years.
First, there is the location - four miles from Bideford, a working riverside community with a small fishing fleet (guaranteed entertainment for children).
Today the beautiful walkway along the Price River provides an example for other riverside communities.
Although residents in riverside communities, like Hannibal, are resigned to the floods, it is often the poorest people who suffer the most.
Between 1780 and 1820, the narrow period covered by the exhibition, Newark was a pastoral riverside community of a thousand people.
Tackle shops in riverside communities also have up-to-date information.
While the politicians seem impotent and indecisive, riverside communities continue to live under the shadow of the mercury threat.
As agriculture and industry have receded, Baldwinsville has evolved into an attractive riverside community.
Just before dawn they passed another of the squalid little riverside communities.
It protects Sacramento and other riverside communities from flooding through a system of weirs.