Decades before the U.S. Declaration of Independence, English explorers noted an unusual community found in the Appalachian wilderness. They spoke a strange language, unknown to neighboring Native ...
America has a funny way of hiding history, and there’s no better example of that than the story of the Melungeons, a forgotten people of Appalachia. Appalachia is a geographic region in the eastern ...
Stories and storytelling are baked into human nature. The paleolithic hunter describing his latest hunt by firelight was both entertaining his audience and passing along valuable information to a ...
A Melungeon photographer named T.R. Phelps from the Appalachian Mountains who took photos all over Washington County, Russell County and Bristol, VA was nearly forgotten by history. His work captures ...