Before 1607? Melungeons in the New World” Southwest Virginia Museum, Bigs Stone Gap, 29-30 June 2007 The Melungeon Heritage Association (MHA) and the Southwest Virginia Museum sponsored Before 1607? Melungeons in the New World in conjunction with Virginia’s statewide celebration of the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown. Southwest Virginia Museum A reception on […]
Melungeon Unions (Archive, pre-2012)
12th Union Report
Twelfth Union: A Melungeon Gathering It might appear to many of you watching this site that we went on vacation after our gathering at LincolnMemorial University. In some ways we did! We are all dedicated volunteers and put off many things in our own lives until after our gatherings. So, we had to play catch […]
14th Union Report
The 14th Melungeon Union was extended to three days to allow for a full day celebrating the historic Melungeon community of Vardy. The geographical scope of subjects also expanded, ranging from east Texas to northwest Ohio to northeastern North Carolina. While the historic Melungeon heartland of northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia remains home to MHA, […]
13th Union Report
13th MHA Union Nurtures Scholarship and Fellowship A year ago I posted on my Backintyme blog that the Melungeon Heritage Association had hosted a successful and harmonious 12th Union, and that my presentations on Pell Mellers were well received. Since then, I have become a consultant to the MHA board and was involved in the […]
A.D. Powell presentation, 2004
Powell: 6/18/04 White Racial Identity, Racial Mixture, and the “One Drop Rule” by A. D. Powell Presented at Fifth Union, Kingsport, Tennessee Friday, 18 June 2004 In the days of the Third Reich, the Nazis imposed the “Nuremberg Laws” on German citizens. Assimilated German Jews were told that they were not German. It didn’t matter […]
Joseph Scolnick presentation, 2004
Scolnick: 6/17/04 From Anatolia To Appalachia by Joseph Scolnick Presented at Fifth Union Kingsport, Tennessee Thursday, 17 June 2004 In deciding which aspects of From Anatolia To Appalachia: A Turkish-American Dialogue to emphasize in this afternoon’s talk, Brent Kennedy and I decided that it would be useful both to lay out the possible evidence for […]
