{"id":20806,"date":"2012-02-23T01:19:57","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T01:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=20806"},"modified":"2012-02-23T01:19:57","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T01:19:57","slug":"the-mystery-myth-and-marvel-of-the-melungeons-of-east-tennessee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=20806","title":{"rendered":"The mystery, myth and marvel of the Melungeons of East Tennessee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/chattanoogaparentmagazine.com\/2012\/01\/the-mystery-myth-and-marvel-of-the-melungeons-of-east-tennessee\/\" target=\"_blank\">The mystery, myth and marvel of the Melungeons of East Tennessee<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chattanoogaparentmagazine.com\" target=\"_blank\">Chattanooga Parent<\/a>\/North Georgia Parent<br \/>\n2012-01-08<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jennifer Crutchfield<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492.\u00a0 Even the youngest of us knows that rhyme but there is more to the story of the conquest of the New World and it was a man\u2019s search for clues to his mysterious illness that may have answered centuries old questions.\u00a0\u00a0 Answering those riddles about people and places make history and its mysteries so exciting.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nElvis Presley, Pocahontas, Abe Lincoln and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sequoyah\" target=\"_blank\">Sequoyah<\/a> may share a bloodline that still exists with many Melungeon brothers who don\u2019t even know it.\u00a0 As early as 1673 English explorer James Needham wrote about people who lived with Native American tribes, Mediterranean-looking people speaking a broken 16th century <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Early_Modern_English\" target=\"_blank\">Elizabethan English<\/a> in the forests of the New World.<\/p>\n<p>Dedicated research, advanced genetic typing, testing and a disease or two combined in one man as he battled a mysterious ailment.\u00a0 Brent Kennedy had always been told that his family was of Irish, Scottish and German heritage.\u00a0 Imagine his surprise when the source of his pain was diagnosed as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Erythema_nodosum\" target=\"_blank\">Erythema nodosum sarcoidosis<\/a>, a disease that only strikes Mediterranean men?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/chattanoogaparentmagazine.com\/2012\/01\/the-mystery-myth-and-marvel-of-the-melungeons-of-east-tennessee\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mystery, myth and marvel of the Melungeons of East Tennessee Chattanooga Parent\/North Georgia Parent 2012-01-08 Jennifer Crutchfield Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492.\u00a0 Even the youngest of us knows that rhyme but there is more to the story of the conquest of the New World and it was a man\u2019s search for clues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,8,5113,20],"tags":[6157,9727,9729,9728],"class_list":["post-20806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-triracial","category-usa","tag-brent-kennedy","tag-chattanooga-parent","tag-jennifer-crutchfield","tag-north-georgia-parent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}