New Hatfield/McCoy Movie. Looks good!

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History Channel will have a three part miniseries produced and starring Kevin Costner. It looks pretty gritty and choke full of old guns being used. Here's the real Hatfield's. I think the guy sitting on our left is who Costner plays. I see a New Model 3 and a DA .44 S&W in there.

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One of our neighbor's is from one of those familes, which one I can't remember.
Let's just say that the apple didn't fall far from the tree when it comes to
our neighbor since she attacked my wife over a School Bus Stop issue.

Before we were even involved in the issue, she, our neighbor, had lobbied
the School District to get her way, which failed miserably. A fact that must
have irked her to the point that her lineage came to the surface.

Immediately after the attack the neighbor called a mutual friend of her's
& my wife's and laid out what she had done. My wife wasn't going to call
the poilce but I "made her" saying that while we wouldn't press any charges,
she needs to be put on notice that this sort of behavior isn't going to fly.

I won't go into the details of the attack, which the neighbor lied to the police
about, but the phone call she made to the mutual friend where she told the truth
threw a monkey wrench into that plan. I will say this, about 10 yr's after the
attack I met the investigating officer, who is also a woman, in an off-duty,
informal setting and she asked where I lived. When I told her, she said,
"Oh, you live across from that crazy lady."
 
Happy looking bunch aint they?

Merril, I get your meaning and it brought a smile, but in reality no one smiled for a picture in that time period. I've yet to see a smiling face from an 1800's photo. None of the many ancestor photos I have show a smile until well into the 1900's. Even in the 1940's, a photo of my maternal grandparents when they were both in their 70's, they didn't smile.

I'm sure more learned folk than I can elucidate a particular reason - but it just wasn't done.
 
Hatfields and McCoys

History Channel will have a three part miniseries produced and starring Kevin Costner. It looks pretty gritty and choke full of old guns being used. Here's the real Hatfield's. I think the guy sitting on our left is who Costner plays. I see a New Model 3 and a DA .44 S&W in there.

hatfield.jpg

That's ol Devil Anse hisself ain't it?
olcop
 
Merril, I get your meaning and it brought a smile, but in reality no one smiled for a picture in that time period. I've yet to see a smiling face from an 1800's photo. None of the many ancestor photos I have show a smile until well into the 1900's. Even in the 1940's, a photo of my maternal grandparents when they were both in their 70's, they didn't smile.

I'm sure more learned folk than I can elucidate a particular reason - but it just wasn't done.

Bad teeth would have been a major reason, but there was also simple social tradition. Serious faces were what you presented to the world, happy faces were what you showed to your family. This is, I believe, a worldwide tradition and not just something you see in American family photos. The last three or four decades have brought big changes in the social faces that most humans present to the world. The worldwide "game face" has softened a bit.

Over 40 years ago, when I lived intermittently in Greece over a period of three or four years, I visited a remote village (no electricity, water collected from a community spring) and stayed with the family of a friend who had come to the US. I asked to take photos, which they permitted. When I asked the young daughter to smile, she started to but went serious immediately when her father barked at her.

I'm looking forward to this series. Costner is an interesting actor and director who doesn't always produce what the public wants to see, but when he's on target he is about as on target as anybody can be.
 
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I'm looking forward to this mini series. For a good read check out the Horrell-Higgins feud.
 
My daughter had a friend in high school whose last name was McCoy. She had moved here from West Virginia. I asked her once if she knew any Hatfields. Her reply, "Yeah, we hate 'em. They stole our pig." Maybe a pig had something to do with how the feud started.
 
My daughter had a friend in high school whose last name was McCoy. She had moved here from West Virginia. I asked her once if she knew any Hatfields. Her reply, "Yeah, we hate 'em. They stole our pig." Maybe a pig had something to do with how the feud started.
Them folks sure hold a grudge, don't they?
 
Faulkner,
Thanks for posting the link. That looks very interesting!
I'm going to have to E-mail myself a reminder note. LoL
 
Faulkner,
Thanks for posting the link. That looks very interesting!
I'm going to have to E-mail myself a reminder note. LoL

I'll have to write myself a note on a Post-it note and tape it to the bottom of my computer screen... old age is over-rated!

The Hatfields and McCoys reminds me of an incident that occurred in the early '60s in N TX.

My Dad and PaPa always used custom hay haulers to pick up our baled hay and stack it in several barn lofts around the homestead. Seems there were two competing rural families that always bid against each other for the hauling jobs. One day the two rival crews crossed each other's paths at the intersection of US 289 (Old Preston Road) and US 121. The intersection was called Lolaville, in honor of Ms. Lola. She had a one pump gasoline station and a ramshackle store that typiclly stocked a few staples. Lolaville was about a half mile north of my grandparents place.

It seems the two family crews had words, words escalated into a physical fight and then the guns came out. To the best of my recollection, one was killed and several were wounded. After the initial word of mouth news there was never anything else that came of it. No wonder my Dad wouldn't let me hang with the boys my age. They were a rough bunch, to say the least!

Hog
 
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