Vance made a success of being anti-elite and pro–working class, but his prescriptions for the economy betray that he has become, whether he acknowledges it or not, one of them.
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Meibers was a business reporter at the Herald before moving on to a newspaper in Dayton, Ohio.
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EDITOR S NOTE: The following Q&A is reprinted with permission from the Miami University Alumni Association blog, written by Donna Boen, editor of the Miamian. It discusses the recent Netflix movie Hillbilly Elegy, which focuses on the family of Bonnie Mamaw Vance, the late grandmother of former Grand Forks Herald reporter Bonnie Meibers.
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Hillbilly Elegy is far better than the politicized reviews suggest.
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One Saturday afternoon this summer, following a hike in northeastern Pennsylvania’s Schuylkill County, my father and I stopped in Heckscherville, known locally as the Irish Valley, where my family had once made an annual pilgrimage. For many years, the remote village hosted a widely attended Irish festival, where descendants of the region’s immigrant coal miners celebrated their heritage, raised money for the local fire company, ate ethnic food, drank Yuengling beer, and sat in lawn chairs as “The Irish Lads” played ballads.