#appalachia — Public Fediverse posts

#SilentSunday #fungi #fungiFriends #mushroom #macro #bokeh #Appalachia

I made another poster. GOOSE CREEK HOLLER. MONEY. MOUNTAINS. MURDER. Legal thrills in the heart of Appalachia. #mastodon #mastoArt #books #bookstodon #booksky #bookReview #book #poster #postADay #post #ad #advertising #ads #writing #author #august #authorLife #authors #writingCommunity #writers #writer #productivity #pro #promotion #socialmedia #fediverse #worldBuilding #words #graphics #pictures #picture #novels #novel #fun #exhibition #selfPromo #indieAuthor #indieAuthors #indie #DailyCreate #creative #creativity #readingCommunity #reading #read #ebooks #ebook #paperbackCoverArt #paper #publishing #published #ProductLaunch #creek #rural #Appalachia #legal #attorney #law #lawsuit #lawyer #crimeFiction #suspense #thriller #mystery #hills #hidden #murder #mountains #money

No matter where I go in this world, coming back to WV is something wonderful that I struggle to describe completely. Anywhere I am in #WV I feel a sense of comfort I haven't found anywhere else. I just hope every one has a place, a home, that does this for them.

Where do you call home?

#WestVirginia #home #Appalachia #MountainMomma #CountryRoads

Happy National Book Lovers Day! #books #bookstodon #booksky #bookLovers #sunday #fun #Tshirts #mastodon #fediverse #social #ads #ad #book #selfPromo #promotion #indieAuthor #indie #writing #writingCommunity #writers #writer #scribesAndMakers #fiction #gritlit #goose #goosecreekholler #sophiajanehayden #authors #author #writersCoffeeClub #authorLife #appalachia #rural #south #Southern #southernfiction #legal #drama #sleuth #sheriff #lawsuit #law #corruption

Fairies of Northern Appalachia is OUT NOW!

I’m so excited to say that “Fairies of Northern Appalachia: A History of the Little People of the Mountains” is out everywhere now.

The book collects old and new folklore from Pennsylvania, West Virginia, eastern Ohio, Virginia, eastern Kentucky, and western Maryland. It features Pennsylvania Dutch, Scots Irish, Irish, and Cornish traditions, among others.

Here you’ll find stories about banshees, tommyknockers, gnomes, mountain dwarves, household spirits, wassernixen, fairy queens, fairy witches, Appalachian pygmies, and arrow-shooting elves.

The painting on the cover is “The Fairy Favourite” by John Anster Fitzgerald, which I thought perfectly captured the strangeness and diversity of Appalachian fairies. The carving on the back cover is by artist Joan Reed.

You can find it at your local bookstore or at Amazon. The book is also available in a beautiful hardcover (see below).

very fascinating episode from the #SmallTownMonsters team who are in #appalachia where the locals tell their #strange & terrifying experiences in the woods.
they then discuss & analyse their perspectives which is how all #science should be done. #WildMen #FeralPeople #Bigfoot #disappearances #Sasquatch

https://youtu.be/eCXWlsWD_bA?

#press #IndependentMedia #IndependentScience #nature #anthropology

very fascinating episode from the #SmallTownMonsters team who are in #appalachia where the locals tell their #strange & terrifying experiences in the woods.
they then discuss & analyse their perspectives which is how all #science should be done. #WildMen #FeralPeople #Bigfoot #disappearances #Sasquatch

https://youtu.be/eCXWlsWD_bA?

#press #IndependentMedia #IndependentScience #nature #anthropology

very fascinating episode from the #SmallTownMonsters team who are in #appalachia where the locals tell their #strange & terrifying experiences in the woods.
they then discuss & analyse their perspectives which is how all #science should be done. #WildMen #FeralPeople #Bigfoot #disappearances #Sasquatch

https://youtu.be/eCXWlsWD_bA?

#press #IndependentMedia #IndependentScience #nature #anthropology

very fascinating episode from the #SmallTownMonsters team who are in #appalachia where the locals tell their #strange & terrifying experiences in the woods.
they then discuss & analyse their perspectives which is how all #science should be done. #WildMen #FeralPeople #Bigfoot #disappearances #Sasquatch

https://youtu.be/eCXWlsWD_bA?

#press #IndependentMedia #IndependentScience #nature #anthropology

very fascinating episode from the #SmallTownMonsters team who are in #appalachia where the locals tell their #strange & terrifying experiences in the woods.
they then discuss & analyse their perspectives which is how all #science should be done. #WildMen #FeralPeople #Bigfoot #disappearances #Sasquatch

https://youtu.be/eCXWlsWD_bA?

#press #IndependentMedia #IndependentScience #nature #anthropology

very fascinating episode from the #SmallTownMonsters team who are in #appalachia where the locals tell their #strange & terrifying experiences in the woods.
they then discuss & analyse their perspectives which is how all #science should be done. #WildMen #FeralPeople #Bigfoot #disappearances #Sasquatch

https://youtu.be/eCXWlsWD_bA?

#press #IndependentMedia #IndependentScience #nature #anthropology

very fascinating episode from the #SmallTownMonsters team who are in #appalachia where the locals tell their #strange & terrifying experiences in the woods.
they then discuss & analyse their perspectives which is how all #science should be done. #WildMen #FeralPeople #Bigfoot #disappearances #Sasquatch

https://youtu.be/eCXWlsWD_bA?

#press #IndependentMedia #IndependentScience #nature #anthropology

very fascinating episode from the #SmallTownMonsters team who are in #appalachia where the locals tell their #strange & terrifying experiences in the woods.
they then discuss & analyse their perspectives which is how all #science should be done. #WildMen #FeralPeople #Bigfoot #disappearances #Sasquatch

https://youtu.be/eCXWlsWD_bA?

#press #IndependentMedia #IndependentScience #nature #anthropology

very fascinating episode from the #SmallTownMonsters team who are in #appalachia where the locals tell their #strange & terrifying experiences in the woods.
they then discuss & analyse their perspectives which is how all #science should be done. #WildMen #FeralPeople #Bigfoot #disappearances #Sasquatch

https://youtu.be/eCXWlsWD_bA?

#press #IndependentMedia #IndependentScience #nature #anthropology

very fascinating episode from the #SmallTownMonsters team who are in #appalachia where the locals tell their #strange & terrifying experiences in the woods.
they then discuss & analyse their perspectives which is how all #science should be done. #WildMen #FeralPeople #Bigfoot #disappearances #Sasquatch

https://youtu.be/eCXWlsWD_bA?

#press #IndependentMedia #IndependentScience #nature #anthropology

Grows wild and free for anyone who knows to look. Never raw — respect the thorn and the power both.
Tha an talamh fialaidh — the earth is generous. What did your people gather that the store forgot?

#Herbalism #Foraging #FolkMedicine #WildFood #Botany #Nature #Plants #EarthBased #Druid #Herbs #Appalachia #Community
More in today's issue → https://twp.ai/4htd8m

Devil's walking stick — Aralia spinosa — the thorny tree crowding every Southern fencerow, armed head to foot with spines that dare you close.
The young spring shoots, cooked all the way through, have fed these hills for generations. Kin to ginseng and sarsaparilla.
#Herbalism #Foraging #FolkMedicine #WildFood #Botany #Nature #Plants #EarthBased #Druid #Herbs #Appalachia #Community

Hype for the Future 235Q: Cambridge, Ohio

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/06/23/hype-for-the-future-235q-cambridge-ohio/

Hype for the Future 235G: Marietta, Ohio

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/06/23/hype-for-the-future-235g-marietta-ohio/

#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."

https://archive.ph/MgtxC

Hype for the Future 183E: Patrick and Floyd Counties, Virginia

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/05/02/hype-for-the-future-183e-patrick-and-floyd-counties-virginia/

Hype for the Future 149D: Central Rutherford County, North Carolina

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/03/29/hype-for-the-future-149d-central-rutherford-county-north-carolina/

Hype for the Future 149C: Town of Lake Lure, North Carolina

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/03/29/hype-for-the-future-149c-town-of-lake-lure-north-carolina/

Hype for the Future 149A: City of Saluda, North Carolina

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/03/29/hype-for-the-future-149a-city-of-saluda-north-carolina/

Hype for the Future 121B: Churchville, Virginia

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/03/01/hype-for-the-future-121b-churchville-virginia/

Hype for the Future 100E: Madison County, North Carolina

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/02/08/hype-for-the-future-100e-madison-county-north-carolina/

Hype for the Future 100B: Grandfather Mountain

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/02/08/hype-for-the-future-100b-grandfather-mountain/

Hype for the Futute 100A: Avery County, North Carolina

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/02/08/hype-for-the-futute-100a-avery-county-north-carolina/

Hype for the Future 100/284: Town of Banner Elk, North Carolina

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/02/08/hype-for-the-future-100-284-town-of-banner-elk-north-carolina/

Hype for the Future 99A: The Frontier Culture of Augusta County, Virginia

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/02/07/hype-for-the-future-99a-the-frontier-culture-of-augusta-county-virginia/

Hype for the Future 78G: The Marietta-Parkersburg Area

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/01/17/hype-for-the-future-78g-the-marietta-parkersburg-area/

A peek back at some warmer weather last summer for this week's #HumansOfMastodon

#Photography #M43 #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Appalachia #Candid #StreetPhotography

A peek back at some warmer weather last summer for this week's #HumansOfMastodon

#Photography #M43 #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Appalachia #Candid #StreetPhotography

A peek back at some warmer weather last summer for this week's #HumansOfMastodon

#Photography #M43 #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Appalachia #Candid #StreetPhotography

A peek back at some warmer weather last summer for this week's #HumansOfMastodon

#Photography #M43 #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Appalachia #Candid #StreetPhotography

A peek back at some warmer weather last summer for this week's #HumansOfMastodon

#Photography #M43 #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Appalachia #Candid #StreetPhotography

Thank you so much Patrick Barb for this gorgeous quote for my August 2026 Appalachian weird horror novella, GODFESTATION. It’s extra meaningful since you know where I’m from.
#Horror #HorrorBooks #HorrorCommunity #Appalachia #SouthernFiction #books #2026books #weirdhorror

“The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.” - Paulo Coelho

(#SilentSunday, technically ¯_(ツ)_/¯)

#Photography #LandscapePhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Sunrise #Pennsylvania #LaurelHighlands #Appalachia

A rare peek behind the curtain...

#HumansOfMastodon #Selfie #BlackAndWhite #BNW #Monochrome #TieDye #EastcoastKin #Appalachia #MobilePhotography

A rare peek behind the curtain...

#HumansOfMastodon #Selfie #BlackAndWhite #BNW #Monochrome #TieDye #EastcoastKin #Appalachia #MobilePhotography

A rare peek behind the curtain...

#HumansOfMastodon #Selfie #BlackAndWhite #BNW #Monochrome #TieDye #EastcoastKin #Appalachia #MobilePhotography

A rare peek behind the curtain...

#HumansOfMastodon #Selfie #BlackAndWhite #BNW #Monochrome #TieDye #EastcoastKin #Appalachia #MobilePhotography

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:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/27/chemours-pfas-pollution-lawsuit

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

Day 20,450

Still got the shakes, but trees don't need awesome line work.

Just a lil wandering dude on the Appalachian Trail , who may be rethinking doing it in late January. Upside, he isn't doomscrolling.

#art #doodle #woods #Appalachia #beardo

Climate Change Key Driver Of Catastrophic Impacts Of Hurricane Helene That Devastated Both Coastal And Inland Communities [technical report]
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http://alturl.com/5n38k <-- shared technical report
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #hurricane #hurricanehelene #spatiotemporal #risk #hazard #naturaldisaster #impact #climatechange #precipitation #seasurfacetemperature #Appalachia #damage #loss #infrastructure #deaths #rainfall #precipitation #flood #flooding #engineeringgeology #erosion #massmovement #mudslides #landslides #debrisflows #disastermanagement #prediction #mitigation #climatemodels #model #modeling #spatiotemporal #IRIS #winds #extremeweather #weather #storm #humanimpacts #costs #economy #SST #warning #weatherprediction #dams #reservoirs #loss #lossoflife

"#Vance’s willingness to radically revise and overwrite the lessons of his life story is by now a well-documented reflex; what’s more pivotal to his odyssey through public life is the voyeuristic liberal fascination with the tale of heroic uplift he spun in his reputation-making memoir."

#ChrisLehmann : How the Liberal #Media Gave Us #JDVance

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/jd-vance-cnn-liberal-media/
#2024election #USpol #USpolitics #USmedia #bootstrapism #PoorBashing #Appalachia #poverty #prolowashing #HillbillyElegy #books

"A View Of The Laurel Highlands" Watching the sunset's colors and light as they dance across Central Pennsylvania's Laurel Highlands is the best way to end the day.

At my website as cool wall art options, coffee mugs, tshirts and so much more: https://lois-bryan.pixels.com/featured/a-view-of-the-laurel-highlands-lois-bryan.html

And at #FineArtAmerica: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/a-view-of-the-laurel-highlands-lois-bryan.html

#art #giftideas #LaurelHighlands #BlueKnobMountain #Appalachia #buyintoart #ayearforart #sunset #mountains #landscape #NotAi #LoisBryan

#Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill will help clean Kentucky mining sites https://www.wmky.org/news/2024-03-15/officials-say-federal-bipartisan-infrastructure-bill-will-help-clean-kentucky-mining-sites

"#Kentucky is receiving more than $74 million in federal funding to create jobs through the clean-up of historic mine sites... the money will be used to clean hazards left by historic #mining... & to rebuild #WaterInfrastructure and address water supply issues"

#Appalachia #Conservation #Restoration #Pollution #USpol #JoeBiden #Democrats

My “other” band is a duo, playing southern Appalachian music. Check it out, on #BandcampFriday and share as you are able. #fiddleTuneFriday #fiddle #banjo #guitar #appalachia

The Golden Ticket is not only the name of a tune on this album, but also the idea that sometimes you are given an opportunity to succeed and it is up to you to take advantage of it. This album makes good on that golden ticket.

https://longloststringband.bandcamp.com/album/the-golden-ticket