Hillbilly Elegy

went to jail for the crime.^3 The second is
that, as the Times reported,
“complications [were] expected.” I
would imagine so.
When I first read this gruesome story
in one of the country’s most circulated
newspapers, I felt one emotion above all
the rest: pride. It’s unlikely that any other
ancestor of mine has ever appeared in
The New York Times. Even if they had, I
doubt that any deed would make me as
proud as a successful feud. And one that
could have swung an election, no less!
As Mamaw used to say, you can take the
boy out of Kentucky, but you can’t take
Kentucky out of the boy.
I can’t imagine what Papaw was