{Frankfort, Kentucky}...A workshop on the history of people known as Melungeons is being held Saturday in Frankfort. The multiethnic Melungeons have been the subject of folklore, speculation and occasional scientific inquiry in the southern Appalachian region for two centuries. Melungeons sometimes faced legal and social stigma because they did not fit into America's accepted racial categories. The Kentcky Historical Society and Kentucky Genealogical Society free family history workshop on "Melungeon Ancestry" is at 10:30 A.M. at the Thomas D. Clark Center for Kentucky History. Speaking will be Wayne Winkler, author of "Walking Toward the Sunset: The Melungeons of Appalachia," who will trace the known history of the Melungeons and changes in attitude.
