Kinfolks: Falling Off the Family Tree, My Search for My Melungeon Ancestors. Lisa Alther. Arcade. $25. 236 pp. When Lisa (and that’s pronounced “Liza”) Alther was a teenager in Tennessee, she was ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — 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 ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A conference in Swannanoa this week may help unravel the mystery of the Melungeons, an Appalachian people much discussed and often feared by generations of white ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – 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 ...