Kinfolks : Falling Off the Family Tree

Summary:

Most of us grow up knowing who we are and where we come from. Lisa Alther's mother hailed from New York, her father from Virginia. One day a babysitter told Lisa about the Melungeons: six-fingered child-snatchers who hid in caves. Forgetting about these creepy kidnappers until she had a daughter of her own, Lisa learned they were actually an isolated group of dark-skinned people-often with extra thumbs-living in East Tennessee. But who were they? Descendants of Sir Walter Raleigh's Lost Colony? Kin of shipwrecked Portuguese or Turkish sailors? Or were they the children of frontiersma.

Record details

ISBN: 9781611459524
ISBN: 1611459524
Physical Description: 1 online resource : 1 volume (xiii, 241 pages, [8] pages of plates) : illustrations
Publisher: New York : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc., [2012].
Copyright: ©2007.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:	Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1: The Virginia Club; 2: My Inner Hillbilly; 3: Insects in Amber; 4: Wannabes; 5: Blood Sport; 6: Wilderness Forts; 7: The Bermuda Triangle; 8: Sea Cruise; 9: Forebear Fatigue; 10: Teletubbies for Christ; 11Chief Sit 'n' Bull; 12: All-American Stir-Fry; Acknowledgements; Selected Reading.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.