Bench for JD Vance’s ‘mamaw’ spurs discussion over grandmothers park in Middletown

Bench for JD Vance’s ‘mamaw’ spurs discussion over grandmothers park in Middletown

This spring, a bench with a plaque will memorialize Vice President JD Vances grandmother, who guided his upbringing in Middletown. But should Miami Park be designated as grandmothers park to include others who raised their childrens children? One council member is proposing just that.Bonnie Blanton Vance, who died in 2005, was a native of Kentucky before moving to Middletown with her husband in the 1940s. In Vances book Hillbilly Elegy, he credi…