Newly-Born Hatfields and McCoys Foundation Picks TransMedia To Tell Folks Its Plans To Create Jobs Preserving a Fiery Chapter of American History Up In Them Thar Hills of Kentucky and West Virginia
PIKEVILLE, Ky., Sept. 21, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Like they say 'round these parts, Judy Hatfield up and done it. The exuberant Hatfield direct descendant hatched her Hatfields and McCoys Foundation and corralled those publicity farmers at TransMedia Group to spell out all the good it's going to do, creatin' jobs, preservin' history. (www.hatfieldsandmccoysfoundation.org)
"A key message in our Hatfields-McCoys campaign also will be a timely one that just might help save lives," said Tom Madden, CEO, of TransMedia Group (www.transmediagroup.com).
"We intend to point out that if these two feuding families can put down their arms and become friends, so can anyone find nonviolent solutions to what's infuriating Americans today,"
The Hatfield–McCoy feud involved two families of the West Virginia–Kentucky area along the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River. Mere mention of their names stirs up visions of a lawless, unrelenting family feud. It evokes images of gun-toting vigilantes hell-bent on defending their kinfolk, igniting bitter grudges and spewing violence spanning generations.
"Our publicity will show how these once relentless warring clans from the 1860s today have smiles on their faces and forgiveness in their hearts. They have come to represent a noble and hopeful idea whose time has come for America," he said
Today Ms. Hatfield, a direct descendant of the Hatfields, wants "to show America there's another path to peaceful resolution of differences . . . another route to loving, not killing thy neighbor."
The Mission
TransMedia intends to make widely known the foundation's mission, which is "to promote nonviolent solutions to issues that divide, palliative remedies to prejudice that separate, an end to fears and hatreds that too often erupts into violence and lamentably innocent deaths."
The truth is that only after exhausting legal remedies did violence occur. "Then only after deep religious convictions began to permeate decisions did the families finally succeed in putting an end to the violence," said Ms. Hatfield. "The character, integrity and individual activities of the principals are not well known and that needs to change."
Her Foundation plans to turn areas where Hatfields and McCoys made their moonshine and fought so bitterly into vibrant adventure tourism destinations, creating jobs for displaced coal miners while revisiting a colorful cultural chapter in American history.
Media contact: Adrienne Mazzone, 561-750-9800 x2270; [email protected].
SOURCE TransMedia Group
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