On my birthday, I will grieve the loss of my mamaw, and my dad who has been gone five years now. I will grieve for the time I won’t get with them and I will do so knowing in my heart that while ...

MILWAUKEE — The Republican National Convention saw several emotional moments highlighting war heroes, sober mothers, and, in one case, a rambunctious “mamaw” who wasn’t afraid to use ...

“Mamaw was in so many ways a woman of contradictions ... She was born Bonnie Eloise Blanton in 1933 in Keck, Ky., deep in the heart of central Appalachia. She’d move to Middletown in ...

Mamaw was a lifelong Democrat who distrusted ... her house contained 19 loaded handguns. But the soft heart and steel spine of the family's "hillbilly terminator" provided stability when needed.

Poverty. His grandmother swooped in to provide consistency for him and his sister. He was grateful for his Mamaw’s steady presence even as she struggled to raise two grandchildren well into her 70s.

You knew J.D. Vance was going to make it all about Mamaw. America is a funny old place. Not many people know J.D. Vance’s grandmother, the person. A lot of them know Mamaw the literary character ...

Vance, who called himself “a hillbilly at heart,’ did not make the team ... Yet it was this same grandmother, Mamaw, as he calls her, who introduced equilibrium to his life and encouraged ...