Around 1964 Kirk married Annette Courtemanche. It experienced 4 girl: Monica, Cecilia, Felicia, & Andrea.

When the brief tenure as a university prof, Kirk retired to Piety Hill, his rural zero in Mecosta, Michigan, where he exerted tremendous influence in Our contries conservative thought across the steadily stream of lectures, articles, & books. the bit of one use been collated inside a collection highborn Delivering a Period (1998) His anti-libertarian essay "Chirping sectaries" is deservedly famed for its vitriol. His first works include ''Eliot & his Age: T.S. Eliot's Moral Imagination in the Twentieth Century (1972), A Roots of Our contries Choose (1974), & a autobiographical Steel of the Imagination: Memoirs of the Half Century of Literary Conflict (1995). Kirk was besides an accomplished teller & writer of ghost stories, the right of which are then collected inside Ancestral Shadows'' (2004).

Kirk was known for his cordial reception. He & Annette entertained several significant political, philosophic & literary numbers in their page, gave shelter to refugees and hobos, and invited students for learn. Kirk as well lived his philosophy, rejecting cars (which he known as "mechanical Jacobins"), televisions, & computers. Their at home is currently a places of the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal.