Captain "Devil Anse" Hatfield ordered this $3,000 marble statue of himself carved in Italy, and had it hauled up the mountainside by mules to a spot he picked because it was "nice and dry" for graves. He died in 1921, at the age of 83, with a clear and forgiving conscience. His great enemy, Randall McCoy, died before him, still full of bitterness. He once said that Anderson Hatfield was "six foot of devil and 180 pounds of hell." The man and boy looking at the statue are Devil Anse's son Joe, a former sheriff of Logan County, and grandson Willie Joe, aged 4.         (Life Magazine, 1944)

Project # 2: Newspaper Article

You are a journalist writing a newspaper article comparing and contrasting the feud between the Montagues and the Capulets with the feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys.  You conclude with your assessment of the relationship, if any, between feuds, street/school violence, war, or another contemporary form of fighting. 

In writing about the Montagues and the Capulets, be sure to refer to the text of Romeo and Juliet rather than to the film adaptation

Click here for a graphic organizer to help you compare and contrast the two feuds.

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Click here for a graphic organizer to help you compare feuds with a contemporary form of fighting

Now, check out the following websites:

Life Magazine Photo-Essay of the Feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys

Roseanna: Juliet of the Mountains

Definition of warfare and feuds 

Vicious feud in Perugia, Italy wipes out two entire families (read paragraphs # 3-5, to learn the gory details of an Italian feud very much like the one between the Montagues and the Capulets)  

If you want help remembering the plot, click here for a scene-by-scene synopsis