Royal Tea

I’ve written before about how — after tracing a branch of my family tree back to colonial Virginia — I found out that I had Congolese ancestors.

After years of researching this side of our tree, I learned quite a bit about Chesapeake Creole folks and Melungeon people.

After hearing about Prince King Charles’s (alleged) fears about multiethnic/multiracial families, I wondered: What would that bloke think of Melungeons?

It’s not that I actually care what he thinks. I just think that he’d be secretly a little bit afraid to meet anyone from Kentucky, Tennessee, and that particular corner of Virginia. The not knowing who is “what” would completely confuse him.

I doubt he’s coming to this part of the country. And that’s … that’s fine by me.

It’s more than fine, actually.

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Sally Garnatah writes silly things. Some of Sally’s stories are true. For legal purposes, consider all of these posts to be … autofiction, if you can stomach that kind of quasi-pretentious literary stuff. Sally doesn’t read autofiction, though. She’s too much of a country girl. You can find her down by the Tennessee River, out in the woods, standing in a sorghum field — or you can find her right here, on her blog.

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