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From: "Cleland Thorpe" <>
Subject: Re: [Melungeon] THERE WERE GIANTS IN THOSE DAYS
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 10:27:37 -0600
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Helen,
Congratulations on your awards. What were the awards for by the way? Who or what organization presents these awards?
Do you have research data that links Melungeons to these giant folks you have brought to our attention or is this another theory being developed.
Cleland
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Subject: Re: [Melungeon] THERE WERE GIANTS IN THOSE DAYS


Cleland,

That's what I'm trying to figure out, who were these "tallest" men in the TN came to be. Bones are passed on to offspring. I'm going to look for more sources about this issue.

Melungeon hugs,

Helen

Cleland Thorpe <> wrote:

Were these folks Melungeons or have I missed something?????????????
Cleland
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Subject: [Melungeon] THERE WERE GIANTS IN THOSE DAYS


>
> Will T. Hale
> A history of Tennessee and Tennesseans : the leaders and representative
men in commerce, industry and modern activities
> Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1913, 2792 pgs.
>
> THERE WERE GIANTS IN THOSE DAYS
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> PAGE 339
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> There is excuse for this chapter in a history of Tennessee. The abnormal
has ever had an attraction for mankind The Book of books is complete with
references to and accounts of giants. When we come to the fact pf John
Sharpe Spencer, one of the hunters traversing the primeval forest of middle
Tennessee and leaving behind him such prodigious foot-prints that a wanderer
of his own race, coming suddenly upon them, fled in terror and
consternation, we do not wonder that the Hebrews sent to spy out the land of
Canaan were probably out of breath when they returned and with popping eyes:
"And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants:
and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their
sight." Samson probably held the attention of the crowd wherever he
appeared, no matter how many potentates were around. Not a little of the
charm of the duel of David and Goliath lies in the fact that the latter was
a giant. As in fancy we gaze on the scen!
> e, we contemplate but for a minute the short but comely, red-haired,
blue-eyed Shepard, then turn and look long at the big Philistine, carelessly
handling the spear with its staff like a weaver's beam as he roars across
the valley: "I defy the armies of Israel this day." No doubt the sixty
cities of Basham were less inclined to treason or even mere protests against
misgovernment because of Og, their ruler, strutted some nine feet tall
throughout his kingdom.
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> Likewise, characters of great stature have figured in literature and
tradition from time out of mind. Hesiod knew his readers when writing the
story of the Titans, and before his time Homer winked knowingly as he
fabricated those thrilling tale of Cyclops and Polypnemus: the would prove a
drawing card until the end of time.
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> Aside from this universal interest in the abnormal, two or three giant
were prominent in taming the Tennessee wilderness-Isaac Thomas and John
Sharpe Spencer made records of usefulness worthy
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