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What a difference a year makes, right?

Hatfield and McCoy Heritage Days Returns for First Event Since the COVID-19 Pandemic

I get a lot of letters, emails, phone calls and comments in various ways from people in reference to mostly history-related subjects that I have written about. So, with Christmas

Eighty-nine years is a long time in terms of trying to resolve a hideous murder that captivated local residents at that time in 1932, likely because of the circumstances surrounding the slaying of a young woman who — let’s just say — was “loved” by many. Perhaps, too many. There has been much said and written since I first introduced Mamie Thurman back in 1985, resurrecting her from the darkness of time in which not even her gravesite had been located. A bullet to the h...