I am a mongrel. I’ve got straight black hair and a reddish moustache. I introduce this personal note to open my review of Lisa Alther’s book, “Kinfolks: Falling off the Family Tree - The Search for My ...

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 gathers, ...

Fred Eiler is a good friend who is passionate about several things, one of which is the Peak Cemetery, located in Gamble Valley’s Scarboro Community, where potentially two Revolutionary Soldiers are ...

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 ...