Fifth Union Gathering
Fifth Union, June 17-19, 2004 - Kingsport, Tennessee
Several organizations were involved with Fifth Union, and you can find more information on these organizations at these links.
| The Melungeon Heritage Association and the Kingsport Convention and Visitors Bureau were proud to sponsor Fifth Union, the Melungeon Gathering, which will be held Thursday through Saturday, June 17-19, at the Kingsport Civic Auditorium in Kingsport, Tennessee. |
We also presented a reading of the play Walk Toward the Sunset, Kermit Hunter's Melungeon drama which ran in Sneedville from 1969 to 1976. |
| THURSDAY, JUNE 17 10:00 am – Welcome 10:30 am – Betty Perry: The Hancock County Jail: Providing An Education, Past and Present 11:30 am - Frank Sweet: Americans Are More "Racially" Mixed Than They Imagine 12: 30 pm - Mattie Ruth Johnson: My Melungeon Heritage 1:00 pm - Wayne Winkler: Who Are the Melungeons? 1:30 pm – Joseph Scolnick & Brent Kennedy: authors of From Anatolia to Appalachia 1:30 pm – Mattie Ruth Johnson book Signing 2:00 pm - Kathy Lyday-Lee: Will Allen Dromgoole 2:30 pm - James Nickens: Strangers in the Indian Nations 3:00 pm – W. C. Collins & DruAnna Overbay: Exhibit: Windows on the Past 3:30 pm - Kayaalp Buyukataman and Tolunay Kolankaya Buyukataman: Early Turkish Settlers in America 4:00 pm - Dr. Kevin Jones: Melungeon DNA Study 5:30 pm – Claude Collins, John Lee Welton, Katherine Vande Brake: PANEL: The Melungeon outdoor drama Walk Toward the Sunset FRIDAY, JUNE 18 10:30 am - Dr. Marie Boutte: Machado-Joseph Disease 11:00 am - Calvin Beale: Researching Tri-racial Communities 12:00 pm - Brent Kennedy: The Melungeons: Ties That Bind 12:30 pm – Katherine Vande Brake: Melungeon Characters in Fiction 1:00 pm - Anthony Cavender: Appalachian Folk Medicine 1:30 pm - A. D. Powell: White Identity, the One Drop Myth and the Mixed-Race Experience. 2:00 pm - Scott Withrow: Melungeon/ Redbone Settlements in Carolina 2:00 pm – Rehearsal: Walk Toward the Sunset, Act One 3:00 pm - Gwendolyn Higdon: Hypothetical Analogy of the Cradle of the Melungeons 4:00 pm - James Nickens: Melungeon Genesis II 4:30 pm - Frank Sweet: 19th Century Songs and Stories 5:30 pm – reading of Walk Toward the Sunset, Act One SATURDAY, JUNE 19 10:00 am – Opening – Rep. Rick Boucher (9th District, VA) 10:15 am – SJ Arthur: Melungeon Heritage Association and Awards 10:30 am - J. David Smith: The Eugenic Movement in America 11:30 am - Scott Withrow: The Perkins Family in the Carolina-Tennessee Backcountry 12 noon – Darlene Wilson: “Colored/White”: Transcending Appalachian History 12:30 pm - Elizabeth Hirschmann: Tracing Sephardic Connections 1:00 pm - Katie Doman: Vardy Oral History Project 2:00 pm – Jerry Warsing: The East Asian Factor 2:00 pm – Rehearsal: Walk Toward the Sunset, Act Two 2:30 pm – VCHS Board Members: Steps in Forming a Historical Society 3:30 pm - Franklin Keel: Bureau of Indian Affairs 4:30 pm - Dr. Chris Morris: Familial Mediterranean Fever 5:00 pm - Katie Doman: Traditional Mountain Music 5:30 pm – reading of Walk Toward the Sunset, Act Two |
Several organizations were involved with Fifth Union, and you can find more information on these organizations at these links.
