America has a funny way of hiding history, and there’s no better example of that than the story of the Melungeons, a forgotten people of Appalachia. Appalachia is a geographic region in the eastern ...

Decades before the U.S. Declaration of Independence, English explorers noted an unusual community found in the Appalachian wilderness. They spoke a strange language, unknown to neighboring Native ...

Melungeons: any of a dark-skinned group of people of the Appalachians in East Tennessee, of mixed Indian, White, and Black ancestry Home of Jimmy Martin I begged my cousin to take me to Sneedville.

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 speculated they were ...

Deep in the hills of Appalachia live a mysterious tri-racial people known as Melungeons. For years, the community around Vardy Valley in northeastern Tennessee suffered discrimination and ...

“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 ...