"Melungeons are clearly not like the mountaineers I knew. They look different. They have darker skin, darker hair and blue eyes. In older photos, their physical appearance looks almost ...

The Melungeon Heritage Association met in Hillsborough ... and he would always describe her as having this real, real long hair that came down almost to her waist in the back.

Wayne Winkler, a Melungeon descendent Young Winkler was enthralled ... Their facial features were Caucasian yet they had very dark skin, eyes, and hair. They had always been considered nonwhite ...

SHARED APPEARANCE, NOT CULTURE: Early Melungeons’ skin colour ranged from black to copper-coloured, their straight hair often jet-black, their eyes blue or hazel, and some shared a trait of ...

For centuries the Melungeon people of Appalachia believed they were of Portuguese descent. Turns out, their direct lineage is more African than anything else. Guest host Maria Hinojosa speaks with ...

Melungeons supposedly have the evil eye ... people in certain rural mountain settings of the Southeast include dark hair and olive skin. Alther’s fascination waxes and wanes as years pass.

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 ...

Recent discussions here about the marvelous and misunderstood Melungeons have unfolded in two previous chapters. The opening chapter dealt with the broad historical saga of this multiethnic ...

HISTORY MYSTERY: In Lisa Wingate's new novel The Sea Keeper’s Daughters (her 25th book in 14 years), the mixed-race Melungeon people of the Appalachian mountains and a group of oral history ...

SHARED APPEARANCE, NOT CULTURE: Early Melungeons’ skin colour ranged from black to copper-coloured, their straight hair often jet-black, their eyes blue or hazel, and some shared a trait of ...