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  1. Oh hey! It’s #BandcampFriday. If you’re looking to add some good tunes to the collection, Jodi Jones’ debut collection is fantastic. And so fitting for #LaborDay weekend.

    jodijones.bandcamp.com/album/a

    #Appalachia #Music #Folk

  2. Oh hey! It’s #BandcampFriday. If you’re looking to add some good tunes to the collection, Jodi Jones’ debut collection is fantastic. And so fitting for #LaborDay weekend.

    jodijones.bandcamp.com/album/a

    #Appalachia #Music #Folk

  3. Oh hey! It’s #BandcampFriday. If you’re looking to add some good tunes to the collection, Jodi Jones’ debut collection is fantastic. And so fitting for #LaborDay weekend.

    jodijones.bandcamp.com/album/a

    #Appalachia #Music #Folk

  4. Oh hey! It’s #BandcampFriday. If you’re looking to add some good tunes to the collection, Jodi Jones’ debut collection is fantastic. And so fitting for #LaborDay weekend.

    jodijones.bandcamp.com/album/a

    #Appalachia #Music #Folk

  5. Oh hey! It’s #BandcampFriday. If you’re looking to add some good tunes to the collection, Jodi Jones’ debut collection is fantastic. And so fitting for #LaborDay weekend.

    jodijones.bandcamp.com/album/a

    #Appalachia #Music #Folk

  6. Happy International Cat Day! Just received my first bad review on my book GOOSE CREEK HOLLER. Pretty harsh, and while I get where the reviewer is coming from, did he actually read the part about the other Southern delicacies consumed by the Appalachian family of Buchnells? It also starts with a "G". I think not, or he might have given a more favorable review and at least a one paw up. And it's hollar, not holler, Mr. Harrison. Sheesh, reviewers. #cats #cat #bookReview #reviews #review #mastodon #fediverse #books #booksky #bookstodon #book #humor #fun #caturday #saturday #goose #goosecreekholler #sophiajanehayden #novels #novel #Southern #Appalachia #Appalachian #mysteryThriller #mystery #writingCommunity #writing #writer #writers #scribesAndMakers #writingCommunity #reading #read #readersofmastodon #readingCommunity #readin2026 #felines #harrison #catskills #words #iamwriting

  7. Hype for the Future 235U: Holmes County, Ohio

    Overview Holmes County is a notable rural county located in the east-central portion of the State of Ohio southwest of Canton along the Route 62 corridor within Amish Country and home to notable villages such as Millersburg (county seat) and Killbuck. Today, the county is home to the Victorian House Museum and the Hotel Millersburg (2 ⭐️) within Millersburg alongside a number of related tourist establishments associated with Ohio’s Amish Country throughout the area. Within the Village […]

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  8. Hype for the Future 235K: Harrison County, Ohio

    Overview Harrison County is a notable rural county located in the east-central portion of the State of Ohio and modestly south of the City of Canton along corridors such as Routes 22, 250, and 9 which uses the Village of Cadiz as the county seat. Smaller villages within the boundaries of the county include Adena, Bowerston, Deersville, Freeport, Harrisville, Hopedale, Jewett, New Athens, and Scio, while notable major highways beyond the primary routes of Cadiz within the county include […]

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  9. Hype for the Future 235H: Monroe County, Ohio

    Overview Monroe County is a notable rural Appalachian county in the eastern portion of the State of Ohio and the second-least-populated county statewide after only Vinton County, home to notable smaller villages and unincorporated areas including Woodsfield (county seat), Antioch, Beallsville, Clarington, Graysville, Jerusalem, Lewisville, Miltonsburg, Stafford, and Wilson. The county is not directly connected to any major Interstate or United States highways, though state highways located […]

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  10. Hype for the Future 235E: Noble County, Ohio

    Overview Noble County is the most recent of the eighty-eight counties in the State of Ohio by date of establishment as well as the fourth-least-populated following only Vinton, Monroe, and Morgan Counties in the Appalachian region of the State. Today, the Village of Caldwell serves as the county seat and is notable for the historic county jail, now a museum and local information center serving both the community and the county as a whole. Villages located elsewhere within the boundaries of […]

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  11. Hype for the Future 235D: Morgan County, Ohio

    Overview Morgan County is a notable rural county located in the southeastern portion of the State of Ohio larger by population than only Vinton and Monroe Counties in the Appalachian region and home to the Villages of McConnelsville (county seat), Chesterhill, Malta, and Stockport. Notable community amenities within the Village of McConnelsville include the Inns at 8th and Main and Three Sisters Sunset Inn, with Malta located directly opposite the Muskingum River. To the south is the overall […]

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  12. Hype for the Future 235C: Perry County, Ohio

    Overview One of the poorest counties in the State of Ohio, Perry County is located within the Appalachian region of Southeast Ohio and is home to the Villages of New Lexington (county seat), Thornville, Corning, Crooksville, Glenford, Hemlock, Junction City, New Straitsville, Rendville, Roseville (part), Shawnee, and Somerset (former county seat). Today, the county is largely accessible by Routes 22, 13, 37, 93, 155, 188, 204, 216, 256, 312, 345, 595, 668, 669, 757, and very slight portions […]

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  13. Hype for the Future 232G: Morgan County, Ohio

    Overview Morgan County is a rural county in the southeastern portion of the State of Ohio which uses the Village of McConnelsville as the county seat and is home to notable community and natural features such as the Three Sisters Sunset Inn, the Historic Helmick Mill Covered Bridge, the Triple Nickel Diner, the Triple Nickel Dual 555 Sign Posts, and the Hideaway at Buck Ridge. Interestingly, the Triple Nickel refers to effectively the entire course of the Route 555 corridor.

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  14. Hype for the Future 231E: Pike County, Ohio

    Overview Pike County is a notable county in the south-central portion of the State of Ohio associated with the relatively rural Appalachian Ohio, with the City of Waverly and the Villages of Beaver and Piketon located within and Waverly serving as the county seat. Notable highways located within the boundaries of the county include Routes 23, 32, 41, 104, 124, 220, 335, 552, 772, and 776.

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  15. Hype for the Future 230E: Vinton County, Ohio

    Overview Vinton County is a notable rural county in Appalachian Ohio home to the Villages of Hamden, McArthur (county seat), Wilkesville, and Zaleski and along Routes 50, 32, 56, 93, 124, 160, 278, 324, 327, 328, 356, 671, 677, 683, and 689. Notable features of the county include the Moonville Tunnel and Vinton Furnace, with recreational areas including the Vinton Furnace and Zaleski State Forests as well as Lake Hope State Park, with Tar Hollow largely located to the west.

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  16. #miners #Appalachia #coverups #WestVirginia #silicosis #history

    "America’s Deadliest Industrial Disaster And the Cover-Up That Erased It from History

    The men came to West Virginia wanting nothing more than honest work. Instead, they faced a silent killer.

    (. . .)

    According to Union Carbide’s own records, of the 1,500 men who worked exclusively inside the tunnel during its construction, 1,115 were Black, and almost none were from the local area.

    Awaiting them in the tunnel’s path: thousands of feet of solid rock that, when blasted and drilled and chiseled and shoveled, transformed into tiny, glass-like particles that sliced a million little cuts into your lung tissue until slowly, slowly, slowly, over years even, you died.

    (. . .)

    The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) notes that respirable crystalline silica, created 'when cutting, sawing, grinding, drilling, and crushing stone [or] rock,' is made up of particles 100 times smaller than a grain of sand, and that anyone who inhales it is at a higher risk of developing a horrific, irreversible, and incurable disease called silicosis. OSHA wasn’t established until 1970, but these facts were well-known by the time the Hawk’s Nest project was underway, and engineers and executives at Union Carbide would have been aware of the risk.

    (. . .)

    He reconstructed all of it, and it is all chilling, and the most chilling parts of the book are the descriptions of life for the tunnel workers. The discrepancies between the living conditions of Black and white workers are particularly striking: Laborers lived in two-room shanties, with two bunk beds in each room. Black workers slept eight to 12 in a shanty; whites just four. Black shanties had no electricity, while those housing the white workers did.

    Never did the company that Union Carbide had formed to oversee the project, the New Kanawha Power Company, measure dust levels in the tunnel, which would have been a common practice even then."

    archive.ph/MgtxC

  17. Hype for the Future 133P: Martin County, Kentucky

    Overview Located in the Eastern Kentucky Coalfields, Martin County serves as a rural county within the Appalachian Mountains within the Commonwealth and uses the City of Inez as the county seat. Today, the county population is around 10,700 residents, representing the twenty-fourth least populous county in the Commonwealth of Kentucky in the modern day. Historically, however, the coal mining industry of Appalachia had resulted in a significantly larger population artificially relative to the […]

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  18. Hype for the Future 133H: City of Huntington, West Virginia

    Introduction The City of Huntington is situated largely within Cabell County, West Virginia, along the Ohio River, though the western end of the community may also extend over the line into Wayne County. In any case, however, the Cabell County communities are notable for containing notable urban features, though the city limits are on the relatively smaller side in terms of both area covered and population counts. Notable Attractions Perhaps the most significant tourist destinations for […]

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  19. Hype for the Future 133G: Town of Oceana, West Virginia

    Overview The Town of Oceana is situated within the northwestern portion of Wyoming County, West Virginia, and serves as the oldest community within the county and former county seat (prior to 1907). Today, the town limits are served by Routes 10 and 85, with the former connecting the community to the Logan and Pineville areas and Route 85 connecting the area to the Madison community.

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  20. Hype for the Future 103P: George Washington and Jefferson National Forests

    Introduction Though the George Washington and Jefferson parcels are largely physically separate, much of the northern section of the forested area is part of the George Washington National Forest, while much of the southern side is the Jefferson National Forest. While the vast majority of the forested area is split between the Commonwealth of Virginia and the State of West Virginia, the Commonwealth of Kentucky also receives the tail end of the Jefferson National Forest, specifically in Pike […]

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  21. A thunderstorm rolled through on July 13, and I decided it was time to experiment a little. I'm happy with the results.

    📷 Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark III
    🔎 Olympus M.40-150mm
    🖥️ Luminar Neo

    #Thunderstorms #Stormclouds #Lightrays #Photography #BlackAndWhite #WesternNY #SouthernTier #Appalachia #Skies

  22. Notorious US #ChemicalPlant polluting water with toxic #PFAS, lawsuit claims

    Complaint says #Chemours factory dramatized in Hollywood movie #DarkWaters continues to pollute #WestVirginia river

    by Tom Perkins, January 27, 2025

    "The chemical giant Chemours’s notorious West Virginia PFAS plant is regularly polluting nearby water with high levels of toxic 'forever chemicals', a new lawsuit alleges.

    "It represents the latest salvo in a decades-old fight over pollution from the plant, called Washington Works, which continues despite public health advocates winning significant legal battles.

    The new federal complaint claims #WashingtonWorks has been spitting out levels of PFAS waste significantly higher than what a discharge permit has allowed since 2023, which is contaminating the #OhioRiver in #ParkersburgWestVirginia, a town of about 50,000 people in #Appalachia.

    "The factory was the focal point of a Hollywood movie, Dark Waters. It dramatized the story of how the pollution widely sickened Parkersburg residents, and the David v Goliath legal saga in which a group of residents and attorneys took on Chemours, then part of DuPont.
    The findings ‘highlight the importance of careful scrutiny of novel chemicals’, said Irene Jacz, a study co-author and Iowa State economist.

    "An epidemiological study stemming from the case blew the lid off of the health risks of PFAS, and ultimately cost #DuPont about $700m.

    "Though the landmark case still reverberates across the regulatory landscape, the suit started almost 25 years ago, concluded in 2016, and Chemours’s pollution continues. The new lawsuit is part of other legal actions related to the facility that have filled the gap left by weak regulatory action, local advocates say. The never-ending struggle 'wears you out', added Joe Kiger, a Parkersburg resident who was one of the original litigants in 2001.

    "'We have put up with this for 24 years, and [Chemours] is still polluting, they’re still putting this stuff in the water,' Kiger said.

    "The new lawsuit, filed by the #WestVirginiaRiversCoalition, alleges 'numerous violations' since the level of PFAS the company is permitted to discharge per a consent order was lowered in early 2023. Among the contaminants are #PFOA, a PFAS chemical to which virtually no level of exposure in drinking water is safe, the #EnvironmentalProtectionAgency (#EPA) has found. It also includes #GenX, a compound for which the EPA has similarly found very low exposure levels can cause health problems.

    "The EPA ordered Chemours to take corrective action, but the company has done nothing in response, and the agency has not taken further action, the suit states. The complaint does not mention drinking water, which is largely filtered. But the suit alleges the ongoing pollution prevents residents from using the river for recreation.

    "In a statement, Chemours said the 'concerns are being addressed' through the consent order. It also noted it was renewing discharge permits with the state, and was working with regulators 'to navigate both the consent order and the permit renewal process'.

    "'Chemours recognizes the Coalition as a community stakeholder and invites the Coalition to engage directly with the Washington Works team,' a spokesperson wrote.

    "The EPA and West Virginia Rivers Coalition declined to comment because litigation is ongoing.

    "Kiger and others who have taken on Chemours and DuPont railed against the company, accusing it of 'greed' and putting profits above residents’ health. Some in Parkersburg refer to the waste as the 'Devil's Piss'.

    "'They do what they can to make money,' said Harry Deitzler, a West Virginia attorney who helped lead past lawsuits.

    "'The officers in the corporation sometimes don’t care about what’s right and wrong – they need to make money for shareholders and the lawsuits make everyone play by the same rules.'

    "Still, most residents are not aware of the ongoing pollution, those who spoke with the Guardian say. Chemours is a large employer that still wields power locally, and spends heavily on charitable giving. Many remain supportive of the company, regardless of the pollution, Kiger said.

    "'That’s the kind of stuff you’re up against,' he added. 'People put a blind trust in them. It could be snowing out and Chemours would tell everyone it’s 80F [27C] and sunny, and everyone will grab their tan lotion.'

    "The saga began in the late 1990s when the plant’s pollution was suspected of sickening nearby livestock, and an investigation by attorneys revealed the alarming levels at which PFAS was being discharged into the water and environment.

    "A class action lawsuit yielded about $70m in damages for area residents in 2004, but the litigation did not prove DuPont’s PFAS pollution was behind a rash of #cancer, #KidneyDisease, stubbornly high cholesterol and other widespread health problems in the region.

    "Instead of dividing the settlement up among tens of thousands of residents, which would have only provided each with several hundred dollars, the money went toward developing an epidemiological study with independent scientists to verify that widespread local health issues were caused by DuPont’s pollution.

    "The move was a gamble that ultimately paid off – the study of about 70,000 people showed by 2012 that PFOA probably caused some forms of cancer, #ThyroidDisease, persistently #HighCholesterol, pregnancy-induced #hypertension and #autoimmune problems.

    "Subsequent studies have shown links between the chemical and a host of other serious health problems – #BirthDefects, #neurotoxicity, kidney disease and #LiverDisease – that residents in the area suffered.

    "DuPont and Chemours in 2017 settled for $671m in costs for about 3,500 injury suits, and have paid more to install water-filtration systems throughout the region. Separately, Chemours in 2023 settled with the state of #Ohio for $110m for pollution largely from Washington Works.

    "The EPA and state regulatory agencies have at times been staffed with former DuPont managers or industry allies, and litigation has been the only way to get any meaningful movement, said Rob Bilott, the attorney who led the original class-action suit.

    '"It’s infuriating,' Bilott said. 'It took decades of making DuPont documents and internal data public, and getting the story out through movies, news articles, books and public engagement, and that’s what finally pushed the needle here. This is the impact of citizens forcing it through decades of litigation.'

    "The latest lawsuit is a citizen’s suit under the #CleanWaterAct. Such suits give citizens the power to ask a judge to enforce federal law when a polluter is violating it and regulators fail to act.

    "The lawsuit asks a judge to order the company to pay $66,000 for each day it has been in violation, which is stipulated in the permit. That would total around $50m, but the main goal is to stop the pollution.

    "The EPA has acknowledged Chemours is violating the law, but has 'taken no further enforcement action regarding Chemours’s violations as of the date of this complaint', the suit reads."

    Source:
    theguardian.com/environment/20

    Archived:
    archive.ph/p3wA6
    #Environment #PFASPollution #PollutionRunoff #WaterIsLife #DevilsPiss

  23. @wikitree

    #Appalachia is my home and heart.

    Join me and two members as we discuss how we are doing #Genealogy for #Appalachians.

    We aren't selling anything. We aren't giving away prizes.

    We might share some #Biscuits, #SweetTea, #FamilyHistory, a few #laughs and some #tears over our #Ancestors.

    We are a #Community. We love Genealogy.
    We tear down #BrickWalls. We #care.

    #WikiTree allows us to do that for free so it's available to all.

    Spend 45 minutes with us. See our passion.

  24. CW: a log list of hashtags

    This toot is a placeholder for common hashstags to consider for people in the Fediverse. Feel Free to make suggestions.

    #7Books
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    #Appalachia
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    #BlackFriday Black Aziz Ananzi's (@BlackAzizAnansi) hashtag activism
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