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  1. #Introduction I'm Sunflower. I love #Appalachia & I'm trying to take back owning my #music. Looking for folks w/similar music taste like
    Dolly Parton
    Mumford & Sons
    Old Dominion
    Green Day
    Hootie & the Blowfish
    Cold War Kids
    Joywave
    Artic Monkeys
    CCR
    Young the Giant
    Chris Stapleton
    Shania Twain
    Blonde
    Smashing Pumpkins
    The Killers
    Temper City
    Goo Goo Dolls
    The Cranberries
    Alabama Shakes
    Smash Mouth
    Coldplay
    ELO
    NEEDTOBREATHE
    Jelly Roll
    Good Charlotte
    Cigarettes @ Sunset
    Sister Hazel

  2. #Introduction I'm Sunflower. I love #Appalachia & I'm trying to take back owning my #music. Looking for folks w/similar music taste like
    Dolly Parton
    Mumford & Sons
    Old Dominion
    Green Day
    Hootie & the Blowfish
    Cold War Kids
    Joywave
    Artic Monkeys
    CCR
    Young the Giant
    Chris Stapleton
    Shania Twain
    Blonde
    Smashing Pumpkins
    The Killers
    Temper City
    Goo Goo Dolls
    The Cranberries
    Alabama Shakes
    Smash Mouth
    Coldplay
    ELO
    NEEDTOBREATHE
    Jelly Roll
    Good Charlotte
    Cigarettes @ Sunset
    Sister Hazel

  3. #Introduction I'm Sunflower. I love #Appalachia & I'm trying to take back owning my #music. Looking for folks w/similar music taste like
    Dolly Parton
    Mumford & Sons
    Old Dominion
    Green Day
    Hootie & the Blowfish
    Cold War Kids
    Joywave
    Artic Monkeys
    CCR
    Young the Giant
    Chris Stapleton
    Shania Twain
    Blonde
    Smashing Pumpkins
    The Killers
    Temper City
    Goo Goo Dolls
    The Cranberries
    Alabama Shakes
    Smash Mouth
    Coldplay
    ELO
    NEEDTOBREATHE
    Jelly Roll
    Good Charlotte
    Cigarettes @ Sunset
    Sister Hazel

  4. #Introduction I'm Sunflower. I love #Appalachia & I'm trying to take back owning my #music. Looking for folks w/similar music taste like
    Dolly Parton
    Mumford & Sons
    Old Dominion
    Green Day
    Hootie & the Blowfish
    Cold War Kids
    Joywave
    Artic Monkeys
    CCR
    Young the Giant
    Chris Stapleton
    Shania Twain
    Blonde
    Smashing Pumpkins
    The Killers
    Temper City
    Goo Goo Dolls
    The Cranberries
    Alabama Shakes
    Smash Mouth
    Coldplay
    ELO
    NEEDTOBREATHE
    Jelly Roll
    Good Charlotte
    Cigarettes @ Sunset
    Sister Hazel

  5. #Introduction I'm Sunflower. I love #Appalachia & I'm trying to take back owning my #music. Looking for folks w/similar music taste like
    Dolly Parton
    Mumford & Sons
    Old Dominion
    Green Day
    Hootie & the Blowfish
    Cold War Kids
    Joywave
    Artic Monkeys
    CCR
    Young the Giant
    Chris Stapleton
    Shania Twain
    Blonde
    Smashing Pumpkins
    The Killers
    Temper City
    Goo Goo Dolls
    The Cranberries
    Alabama Shakes
    Smash Mouth
    Coldplay
    ELO
    NEEDTOBREATHE
    Jelly Roll
    Good Charlotte
    Cigarettes @ Sunset
    Sister Hazel

  6. To Live Here, You Have to Fight How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice, 2017

    Launched in 1964, the War on Poverty quickly took aim at the coalfields of southern Appalachia. There, the federal government found unexpected allies among working-class white women devoted to a local tradition of citizen caregiving and seasoned by decades of activism and community service.

    #books
    #nonfiction
    #America
    #Appalachia
    #SocialJustice
    #poverty
    #women

  7. Hype for the Future 235L: Carroll County, Ohio

    Overview Carroll County is a notable rural county located in the eastern portion of the State of Ohio home to the Villages of Carrollton (county seat), Malvern, Minerva, Dellroy, Leesville, Magnolia, and Sherrodsville, with Carrollton as the largest community fully within the county and Minerva as the largest community with any partial territory within the county. Major highways located within the county include Routes 9, 39, 43, 164, 171, 183, 212, 332, 524, and 542. Within the Village of […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  8. #QuestionOfTheWeek — Do you have Appalachian roots?🌄
    ▶️ youtube.com/shorts/Tu-J5US-1Vc

    The misty hollows and ridge-top farms of Appalachia sheltered families for generations — and their stories are woven into one of America's most distinctive regional cultures. Whether your ancestors came through the Great Wagon Road, settled the Blue Ridge, or farmed the coal country of West Virginia and Kentucky, those mountain connections run deep.

    Do you have Appalachian roots? Where from — and any surprising connections you've uncovered?

    Share your story and join the conversation on WikiTree's G2G community forum. You might even find cousins you never knew you had! 🌿

    Also, be sure to check out the WikiTree Appalachia Project, and join a live chat this Thursday or Saturday for Appalachian Research Get-to-Know parties.

    👉 wikitree.com/g2g/2031660

    #CollaborativeGenealogy #Genealogy #Appalachia #FamilyHistory #AppalachianRoots #WikiTree #AncestryResearch #FamilyTree

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

    Overview The City of Saluda is a community split between Polk and Henderson Counties in the State of North Carolina, along United States Route 176. Today, notable amenities of the community include the Saluda Inn, the Jim Carson Gallery and Studio AIS & OPA, and the Orchard Inn Boutique Hotel and Spa. Tryon is located to the east, and Zirconia is to the west.

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  10. Hype for the Future 123K: Grayson County, Virginia

    Overview Home to Mount Rogers, the highest elevation in the Commonwealth of Virginia, Grayson County is located in the southwestern region of the Commonwealth to the east of the Bristol and Abingdon areas along United States Routes 21 and 58. The Town of Independence serves as the county seat and is situated along Routes 21 and 58, while nearby Mouth of Wilson is located at the junction involving Route 16 further west.

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  11. Hype for the Future 109B: Ohio State Route 136

    Overview Within the State of Ohio, Route 136 is identified as a notable state highway traversing the southwestern portion of the State of Ohio and the southern end of the Virginia Military District of historical significance. Today, communities associated with the state highway include the Villages of Manchester and Winchester as well as the smaller communities of Bentonville and Cherry Fork in between, with the intermediate areas often being suitable for local and regional agricultural […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  12. Hype for the Future 99N: Grayson County, Virginia

    Introduction Located firmly within the Appalachian, and more specifically, Blue Ridge, portion of the Commonwealth of Virginia is Grayson County, a Virginian county home to the Town of Independence and associated Independence Gallery as well as much of the Grayson Highlands State Park. Geography Topographically, Grayson is the Virginian county most commonly attributed to the highest elevation found in the Commonwealth of Virginia. However, the official highest point on the mountain may […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

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

    Introduction Located within the southeastern portion of the State of Ohio and relatively northwest in the main body of the State of West Virginia is the Marietta-Parkersburg combined area. While Marietta is located directly along the Ohio River to serve as the county seat of Washington County, Parkersburg is located further downstream to serve as the county seat of Wood County. Marietta also serves as the oldest city in Ohio and as a community on the mouth of the Muskingum River, whereas […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  14. #Wikipedia - Origin of the concept of a #SacrificeZone

    "According to the United Nations Human Rights Council [#UNHRC], the term Sacrifice zone emerged in the #ColdWar period when #NuclearTesting, conducted by #colonial powers, such as the #UnitedStates, #France, the #UnitedKingdom, and the #SovietUnion transformed sections of land into #uninhabitable and highly #radioactive areas. Sacrifice zones can be defined as communities that experience dangerous levels of hazardous contamination and waste exposure. Sacrifice zones are linked to #racism, #oppression, #patriarchy, and #colonialism, as they are hubs of #pollution that disproportionately target and harm the physical and mental health of marginalized groups who face overlapping forms of #oppressions.

    According to Helen Huntington Smith, the term was first used in the U.S. discussing the long-term effects of #StripMining #coal in the American West in the 1970s. The National Academy of Sciences/National Academy of Engineering Study Committee on the Potential for Rehabilitating Lands Surface Mined for Coal in the Western United States produced a 1973 report that introduced the term, finding:

    In each zone the probability of rehabilitating an area depends upon the land use objectives, the characteristics of the site, the technology available, and the skill with which this technology is applied. At the extremes, if surface mined lands are declared national sacrifice areas, all ecological zones have a high probability of being successfully rehabilitated. If, however, complete restoration is the objective, rehabilitation in each zone has no probability of success.

    Similarly in 1975, Genevieve Atwood wrote in Scientific American:

    Surface mining without #reclamation removes the land forever from #productive use; such land can best be classified as a #NationalSacrifice area. With successful reclamation, however, surface mining can become just one of a series of land uses that merely interrupt a current use and then return the land to an equivalent potential productivity or an even higher one.

    Huntington Smith wrote in 1975, "The Panel that issued the cautious and scholarly National Academy of Sciences report unwittingly touched off a verbal bombshell" with the phrase National Sacrifice Area; "The words exploded in the Western press overnight. Seized upon by a people who felt themselves being served up as 'national sacrifices', they became a watchword and a rallying cry." The term sparked public debate, including among #environmentalists and politicians such as future Colorado governor Richard Lamm.

    The term continued to be used in the context of strip mining until at least 1999: '#WestVirginia has become an environmental sacrifice zone'."

    #JoeManchin #BigOil #BigCoal #StripMining #EnvironmentalRacism #CoalMining #Appalachia #PollutionSacrificeZones #CorporateColonialism

  15. Trading my #WestVirginia #Ancestor Farmhouse for a #Georgia #Bungalow

    New #Blog Post: From One #Mountain Home to Another: Trading West Virginia Roots for a Georgia Ridge.

    It was incredibly difficult to let go of the hope of buying my Grandparent's farm in #Appalachia.

    ancestryroads.blogspot.com/202

    @Appalachian #Genealogy #familyhistory

  16. Starting a new series of #shorts and short #documentaries on #Appalachia in the #American #Revolution leading up to the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

    The first short: Drummers in the American Revolution.

    youtu.be/v8Elqs293BU?

    #AmericanRevolution #AmericanRevolutionaryWar #americanrevolution250 #Appalachians #Drummers #documentary #history

  17. @optimant @tinker ❤️ I am so glad you mentioned "just the leaves".

    Someone told me that it takes 3 to 5 years to regrow from #bulb but I've only picked them from the wild in unknown forests in #Appalachia

    Thank you for sustainablely growing #ramps.

  18. @tinker

    Here in #Appalachia, it's #Ramps (which are in danger of being over harvested). There is nothing finer than getting together for a big ramp and potato dinner.

  19. #Appalachia is the #thirdworld of the #unitedstates. We exploit and export its culture, vilify and marginalize its people, and keep it poor by extracting its #naturalresources at the expense of its residents and its #environment

    I'd like to think that #HurricaneHelene would prompt us as a nation to take a long hard look at ourselves, but I know it won't.

    washingtonexaminer.com/opinion