To: Salamander
I's tickled by that use of the word "race." My husband's family was mixed-race, four races in fact: the Anglo1-Saxons2 and the the Scots3-Irish4. (Actually 5, 'cause beinst they're from East Tennessee, they've got some Churkey in there too.)
235 posted on
12/31/2009 2:40:13 PM PST by
Mrs. Don-o
("If you can't be right then be wrong at the top of your lungs." Lucy van Pelt (in the Peanuts strip))
To: Mrs. Don-o
What part of East Tennessee? I can probably tell you which Cherokee clan his people came from. Off the top of my head it might be </i>Ani’-Kawi’</i> - Deer Clan.
If you ever encounter very odd animal town names, in western NC, eastern TN, or north GA, names like Duck Town, Turtle Town, etcetera, it was the main settlement of a Cherokee clan in the days before resettlement.
To: Mrs. Don-o; don-o
"I's tickled by that use of the word "race." My husband's family was mixed-race, four races in fact: the Anglo1-Saxons2 and the the Scots3-Irish4. (Actually 5, 'cause beinst they're from East Tennessee, they've got some Churkey in there too.)" Same here. Except I have one more that you guys have
probably never heard of, Melungeon.
242 posted on
12/31/2009 3:47:28 PM PST by
Semper Mark
("Brevity is the soul of wit." Besides, I only have so much tagline space.)
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