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News & Announcements, A Melungeon HomePage: "June 18, 1998
The Melungeons
Mystery in the mountains
By Ted Anthony, AP national writer
NASH HOME PLACE, Va. --
He always believed them. No reason not to.
Kennedy was his name, and of course Scots-Irish was his background -- a self-reliant lineage straight back to the cool hills of western Europe, people who took to Appalachia's ridges with vigor and verve. Intrepid mountaineers.
But this illness, this thing that threatened to consume his body and hijack his control -- well, it just didn't fit. Not at all. An odd malady common in Mediterranean and Middle Eastern people? How did it invade him, of all people? "
The Melungeons
Mystery in the mountains
By Ted Anthony, AP national writer
NASH HOME PLACE, Va. --
He always believed them. No reason not to.
Kennedy was his name, and of course Scots-Irish was his background -- a self-reliant lineage straight back to the cool hills of western Europe, people who took to Appalachia's ridges with vigor and verve. Intrepid mountaineers.
But this illness, this thing that threatened to consume his body and hijack his control -- well, it just didn't fit. Not at all. An odd malady common in Mediterranean and Middle Eastern people? How did it invade him, of all people? "
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