NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – For years, varied and sometimes wild claims have been made about the origins of a group of dark-skinned Appalachian residents once known derisively as the Melungeons. Some ...
It was a question that endured for more than 200 years. What are the family origins of the dark-skinned folks who live in the high country dominated by Powell Mountain where it traversed the Virginia ...
Iberians in the great southwest — Southwest Virginia, that is — is a theme that easily captures the imagination. Reaction was prompt to a recent brief recapitulation of studies by Blacksburg’s Jim ...
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A conference in Swannanoa this week may help unravel the mystery of the Melungeons, an Appalachian people much discussed and often feared by generations of white ...
“The Melungeons: Sons and Daughters of the Legend” will be the next presentation in the Blount County Public Library’s Southern Appalachian Studies Series at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 17, at the library’s ...
In "Beyond the Sunset: The Melungeon Outdoor Drama, 1969-1976," Wayne Winkler delves into how the civic leaders of isolated Hancock County took the story of its marginalized mixed-race residents, the ...
Wayne Winkler was 12 years old and flipping through a local newspaper in Hancock County, Tennessee, the first time he learned of a group of people known as the Melungeons. His parents had moved to ...
Melungeon Mythology: Who Are We And How Did We Get Here? -- Dna, Disease And Demographic -- The Keys To The Mystery -- 1492 A Most Propitious Year -- Rewriting The Past A New Origin Story -- Family ...
Wayne Winkler was 12 years old and flipping through a local newspaper in Hancock County, Tennessee, the first time he learned of a group of people known as the Melungeons. His parents had moved to ...
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