The Hatfield's and The McCoy's
A few years ago I began mulling the idea about writing a book regarding the infamous feud between the Hatfield’s and McCoy’s in the 1800’s. After mentioning this to my parents, they told me that a new miniseries had been filmed about the feud and suggested I watch it. Truthfully I’d forgotten about the whole thing. Other projects have come and gone, and the verdict is still out if I’ll ever write a book on the subject. However when I saw that Netflix had the miniseries starring Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton the historian-junkie-curiosity in me was piqued. I again will add here how much I love what I do. Part historian, part writer, part minister, yes, God knew what he was doing when he called me to this field. As I took the last few days to watch this miniseries, that is very violent and has some language in it, I was so saddened at this story. I will confess to yelling at the TV ...