Re: [ranchos] Books to Review for the quarter

[Alicia Carrillo <alliecar@...>]

Joseph,

I agree that it may not be related and then again maybe it might, but I thought I would think out of the box and throw in a bit of controversy, although we did have a very brief discussion in Ranchos about Melungeons.

 

I selected books not only on their apparent merits but on cost, availablility and length of the book. It had to be affordable and accesible to all who were interested and not an extremely long read as many people work full time and have families to keep them pretty busy as it is. 

 

I encourage all Ranchos members to read over the brief summaries and place your votes.

 

Alicia Avelar Olmos de Carrillo

 

Joseph Puentes <makas@...> wrote:

> those books looked good to me. make sure to tape
>  the discussion and I 
> can make it part of the Nuestra Familia Unida "book discussion" section 
> [that is if the members vote on this and say yes].
>
> Also the Melungeons book was questionable. Interesting topic but not 
> related. . .well I guess its possibly related, but only in a speculative 
> way. It is possible that some of the original people that were slaves on 
> Drake's ships were Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish, Moors, or other 
> Mediterranean ethnicity's.
>
> joseph