Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 13:02:35 -0500

From: Anita Puckett apuckett[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]VT.EDU

Subject: Re: Melungeons



An AP story in the Knoxville News-Sentinel today says that there is to be

a Melungeon family reunion (apparently the first) in Wise County, Va., on

Friday, July 25. I haven't been able to find anything about it on the

web. Does anyone know more about it?



Thanks,

Bethany





Yes, it's not only a reunion, but also a conference with formal

presentations by Kennedy and others. Friday night banquet included. Goes

through Sat. night. May be some Sun. morning wrapup, but I don't recall

off the top of my head. Registration is $15 at the gate plus $12.50 for

the banquet. As of last week, about 370 had registered. Should be very

interesting. URL's are



http://www.clinch.edu/appalachia/melungeon (may be "appalachian"--I can't

read my own scribbles here). This is the official site with on-line

registration.



http://www.bright.net/~kat/1stunion.htm (tells about)



httP://www.usit.net/tngenweb/caladar.htm (TN calendar of events page with

links).



I meant to post to this list earlier; my apologies. If anyone linguistic

is going, how about letting me know? I'm obligated to be there and would

welcome any support from colleagues, especially when the so-called Turkish

cognates start flying. Bethany? Would be a good time to catch up?



Anita Puckett





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