Times were so bad in the 1940s that Vance’s grandparents, Bonnie and James, whom he calls Mamaw and Papaw, left Jackson for Middletown, Ohio, an industrial town 200 miles away. His grandmother ...

His happiest times came when he stayed with his maternal grandparents. “Home” was with his grandparents (“Mamaw” – pronounced ma’am-aw – and “Papaw” (Bonnie Blanton and Jim Vance) in Jackson, Kentucky ...

However, Vance has hit back at the critics claiming ... code impressed upon him by his maternal grandparents Mamaw and Papaw. His grandmother Mamaw is a force of nature, not afraid to administer ...

Both Trump and Vance verbally attacked Ukraine President ... He was raised by his grandparents, “Mamaw” and “Papaw”, whom he sympathetically portrayed in Hillbilly Elegy, a memoir about ...