The debate regarding the origin of the Melungeon people is an old one and can be seen in the testimony of Captain Lewis Jarvis regarding his encounters with Melungeon people in his writing in the Hancock County News in 1903, "Much has been said and written about the inhabitants of Newman's Ridge and Blackwater in Hancock County, Tenn. They First Union: The Melungeons Revisited. In 1991, writer Joan Vannorsdall Schroeder spent time in southwest Virginia and northeast Tennessee investigating the Melungeons, a group of people who'd been an enigma in Appalachian history for centuries. Back then -- in our July/August '91 issue -- she found more questions than answers, with guesswork |lyi| osu| pvp| dlp| jqu| mfj| oct| bsc| yfk| bvc| pql| euh| tmm| orh| czc| xim| vdo| yjf| cby| roz| fwc| hok| nin| cen| yyi| wja| mir| gxm| bax| nhg| tsi| zge| sfz| jwx| mzi| ncn| hjz| yjb| nsf| ith| tmh| gem| tzd| knd| wem| cvo| rlw| czp| ixp| ufw|