Richard Hague

Photographs ©1996 Malcolm J. Wilson

Richard Hague, who moved to Cincinnati from Steubenville, Ohio to attend Xavier University in 1965, uses the medium of poetry to explore his Appalachian Ohio roots. "Every time I write about Steubenville," he says, "it is a road back. And I feel weird that I haven't lived there for so long because I still live there in my thoughts and imagination to a great extent."  

But he's also firmly planted in the Madisonville neighborhood of Cincinnati, where he's lived for fifteen years.  

"I think having kids, living in a neighborhood, having a garden, you know, these kinds of things connect you to a place. It's just a habit of rooting, I guess. The nesting instinct or something. I gotta feel at home, and that doesn't happen passively. You pursue it." 

Perceptions of Home: The Urban Appalachian Spirit ©1996 The Urban Appalachian Council (now Urban Appalachian Community Coalition)

Photographs ©1996 Malcolm J. Wilson; Interviews ©1996 Don Corathers

Photographs digitized by the Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library. Genealogy & Local History Department.