![]() ![]() Wayne Winkler, A Brief Overview of the MelungeonsĪ Google search for images associated with the word “Melungeon” generates some unusually striking human features, and includes such famous faces as Abraham Lincoln and Elvis Presley.Īnne has been writing or dreaming of writing for most of her life. ![]() More significantly, the Melungeons did not fit into any of the racial categories which define an individual or group within American society, they were considered by their neighbors neither white, black, nor Indian. The most common adjective used to describe the Melungeons is “mysterious ” no one seems to know where the Melungeons originated. Her writing considers a little-known ethnic group in Appalachia, the Melungeons.įor more than a century, the Melungeons have been the focus of anthropologists, social scientists, and (especially) feature writers for newspapers and magazines. In Melungeons & Mystery, Anne explores her earliest comprehension of racial prejudice in her community, as well as how she responded to it at the time and since then. I am tremendously grateful to Anne for her willingness to share her perspective and writing talent with this initiative.Īnne’s first essay, Winter Solstice, appeared in January 2011. ![]() ![]() Esse Diem is pleased to welcome returning essayist Anne Clinard Barnhill! This is Anne’s second essay for the Essays on Childhood project. ![]()
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