Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 20:47:37 PDT

From: Duane Campbell dcamp[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]EPIX.NET

Subject: Re: Melungeons



--- On Mon, 8 Jul 1996 20:56:28 -0400 Beverly Flanigan

FLANIGAN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU wrote:





the tri-racial community in Maryland as "Wesorts," one of a number of

labels given to mixed White-Indian-Negro families in the eastern U.S.

over the past 200 years or more: "WINs" is one such term, Melungeons,

Guineas, Brass Ankles, Croatans, Moors, Red Bones, and Carmel

[Caramel?] Indians are a few others.



Add to that list "Pools". Isn't this where I came in?



I don't mean to sound like a broken record, but the Pools are what brought me

into this list in the first place. They are an extended family which has lived

mostly within a radius of five miles in Northeast Pennsylvania for two hundred

years.



What is most interesting is that they have their own language, and even though

I went to school with Pools, it is pretty much incomprehensible to outsiders.

Is this true of the other groups?





Duane Campbell

dcamp[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]epix.net



In the beginning the Earth was without form and void.

Why didn't they leave well enough alone?