tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2499963676724655534.post4966656333094046834..comments2024-02-09T05:35:34.867-05:00Comments on The History Scroll: Living on the waterKarla Akinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16989639592455525499noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2499963676724655534.post-56945144754352856292022-10-11T04:23:43.237-04:002022-10-11T04:23:43.237-04:00Great post, thanks for sharing itGreat post, thanks for sharing itEpoxy Flooring Waukeganhttps://www.specialized-flooring.com/us/polished-concrete-illinois/epoxy-flooring-waukegan.shtmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2499963676724655534.post-20851885822598988542012-05-14T21:17:42.798-04:002012-05-14T21:17:42.798-04:00This is fascinating information. Thanks for sharin...This is fascinating information. Thanks for sharing it! There are actually quite a few books on Melungeons now that weren't around before. Do a search on Amazon.com and you'll find them! Thanks for posting!Karla Akinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16989639592455525499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2499963676724655534.post-24351019026645001832012-05-14T20:34:53.476-04:002012-05-14T20:34:53.476-04:00I was pleasantly surprised to see anyone mentionin...I was pleasantly surprised to see anyone mentioning Melungeons as I almost never hear anyone say anything about them. I grew up in Tennessee, which has a interesting history with many, many over looked elements to it's history, at times, whole worlds almost entirely forgotten. I heard my Dad talk of Mulungeons. He told how a boy on on his college foot ball team claimed to be one. He said that the boy had such a a big head, they had to take two helments and make extra room and weld the two together to make it fit. I don't know much about the boy. Aside from that, he never really said much about the people, except that they were supposedly here before the first documented settlers got here, and how they could have been vikings mixed with cherokee, or some escaped white slave colony of the nordic tribes that were along the upper coast line and even made settlements far before Columbus. Dad said he thought they could even have been from a lost colony, like Jamestown. I don't know, but I doubt it was the only colony, and it is not ridiculous to assume some how some group of whites may have made it into the mountains. <br /><br /> The only other reference I've found in print was in a book by Cormac McCarthy. I believe it was The Orchard keeper, where in describing a family he said, "not Mulungeons, and not really anything else either." It was something to that effect. I sat up straight and re-read the sentence, smiling a little. It some how made the whole work more familiar to me. Just that brief reference, pulled me into that forgotten world. I suppose to bring all this full circle, I should mention my favorite work of his "Suttree" where we discover another forgotten Tennesseean word... this time of Knoxville in the early 1950's, and a man who leaves a life of privilege to go and live on a dilapidated house boat. Here too we see a world that, had it not bee for this book, may have been completely forgotten. The work focuses mainly upon the poor or homeless population of Knoxville, many of whom found a way to scrape a living together by the catfish and oysters of the polluted river, following down from the mountains damned 20 years earlier. Often, these are the descendents of the people who lost their lush bottom farm land in the T.V.A.'s path. It is a interesting read, and though thick and dark at times, it is immensely funny in others. <br /><br />It even inspired me to build a boat!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com