 After a two-year hiatus, the Hatfield and McCoy Heritage Days will be returning to Pikeville September 16th through the 18th. This year's event will focus on heritage tours, fellowship, and the families coming together with the community and visitors. Yes. You know, the wonderful part is we get to host the descendants that are coming home to the Tug River. A lot of people studied history, local history, and local school systems, and they got to know more about the history and that time period of the middle 1800s during Civil War. They know that the local, feud attractions are local in Kentucky and West Virginia, but there's not every day that you can mingle with direct descendants of an attraction or historic spot. My name is Aaron Crump, Chief Medical Officer at Pikeville Medical Center. The Heart and Vascular Institute, it's really an incredible program. It's really incredible because of the providers, because of the technology, and because of the staff. We've truly become the leading provider of Heart and Vascular Services in Eastern Kentucky, and in fact, what we do compares to anywhere in the nation. Pikeville Medical Center, when it comes to your heart, place your care in our hands. Several direct descendants from both the Hatfield and McCoy families will be attending Heritage Days. The families will be touring local historic sites, placing wreaths on several family memorials, and presenting Hatfields autopsy. As much as the Tug River separated the McCoys in Kentucky and the Hatfields in West Virginia, so did the feud storyline. And what I mean by that, it separated some of them. It made a wider path than a narrow path. And them coming together, signing the peace treaty, coming together as one, I've seen it with my own eyes, them our brother ship and sister ship on both sides because they want to tell the story in their own words now. They wanted to leave the world a little better than they found it. And the only way to do that is to partnership, help the economy in the area by visiting, creating things to do around those attractions, whether it be dueling barrels or Main Street Live. And the common goal with them is brother ship and sister ship because they see, they can't help what happened in the past, way before they were born. But they can leave it better than they found it by being peaceful. For more information and to view the full schedule, visit tourpikecounty.com. For Mountain Top News, I'm Breanna Robinson.