#appalachia — Public Fediverse posts
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#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 -
#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 -
#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 -
#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 -
#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 -
Webs & sunbeams #sun #photography #macro #Appalachia #web
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Webs & sunbeams #sun #photography #macro #Appalachia #web
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Webs & sunbeams #sun #photography #macro #Appalachia #web
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Webs & sunbeams #sun #photography #macro #Appalachia #web
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Webs & sunbeams #sun #photography #macro #Appalachia #web
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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
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#America
#Appalachia
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🦞🎒 #US #Fish and #Wildlife biologists are testing tiny photo-IDs attached as "backpacks" to #endangered Big Sandy #crayfish in #Appalachia.
Because injecting a #chip would harm the 10 cm (4 in) #crustaceans, researchers superglue a batter-free PIT tag to each #shell and set it with baking soda water. The setup was first tested on a common surrogate species, and the tags letting go are actually a sign the crayfish survived long enough to molt.
👉 https://www.popsci.com/environment/backpacks-crayfish-superglue/
#conservation #wildlife #biology #science #endangeredspecies #nature #animals #research #freshwater #water #fieldwork
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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).
#Appalachia #AppalachianFolklore #AppalachianMountains #banshee #banshees #CornishFolklore #Elves #Fairies #Fairy #folklore #gnomes #history #Irish #Kentucky #Maryland #Ohio #Pennsylvania #PennsylvaniaDutch #ScotsIrish #tommyknocker #tommyknockers #Virginia #WestVirginia -
Hype for the Future 232E: Wayne National Forest
Overview Wayne National Forest is a notable forested and protected area located in the southeastern portion of the State of Ohio and serves as home to the City of Nelsonville within an otherwise largely-protected area largely within Hocking, Vinton, and Athens Counties. The City of Nelsonville serves as the most populated cluster within the forest and is located in the northwestern portion of Athens County, along the Route 33 corridor between Logan to the northwest and Athens to the […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/06/20/hype-for-the-future-232e-wayne-national-forest/
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Hype for the Future 183E: Patrick and Floyd Counties, Virginia
Overview Within the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Counties of Patrick and Floyd are each located within the Blue Ridge to western Piedmont regions, with Patrick County to the south and Floyd County to the north. The county seats are the Towns of Stuart and Floyd, respectively; however, the Town of Stuart is home to the Wood Brothers Racing Museum and the Patrick County Historical Society and the Town of Floyd is home to the Floyd Center for the Arts, Troika Contemporary Crafts, the Maggie […] -
Nick Brumfield wrote a review of "The Night of the Hunter" movie. He analyzed it as an example of cinema set in Appalachia before the idea of Appalachia was resurrected and codified in the 1960s.
https://expatalachians.com/the-original-hillbilly-horror-movie-the-night-of-the-hunter#misogyny #community #adultism #psychology #psychopaths #attachment #religion #christianism #beliefs #faith #hope #NightOfTheHunter #movie #RobertMitchum #Appalachians #serialKillers #crime #predators #Laughton #GreatMigration #GreatDepression #Appalachia #hillbilly #horrorMovie #history #AmericanHistory #whiteHistory
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Hype for the Future 99A: The Frontier Culture of Augusta County, Virginia
Disclaimer Within the Commonwealth of Virginia, independent cities can occasionally be classified within the associated counties; however, the cities are politically separate from the surrounding counties as per the state constitution. This post pertains to the Cities of Staunton and Waynesboro in addition to Augusta County proper. Introduction Traditionally a significantly larger county associated with the entire frontier of the Commonwealth of Virginia, the County of Augusta, named for […] -
Christian “#TheoBros” Are Building a #Tech Utopia in #Appalachia –
#ChristoFascists #SuperRich #BillionairesSUCK ##NerdReich #NaziUSA
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you pronounce it like "app uh latch uh" not "app uh laysh uh" and that's not a regionalism. that's not a quaint southern way of saying it. #Appalachia is named after the #Apalachee #people who sought refuge in this region during the indigenous genocide waged by our #colonizing founders in #Florida. i'm done having this conversation with y'all. i know you think you're dunking on hillbillies but surprise! it was actually anti-indigenous #racism! again!
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This is about as close as we get to #Skyline out here. But I think it's a good view.
📷 #Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark III
🔎 Olympus M.Zuiko 14-42mm F3.5-5.6 R#Appalachia #SmallTown #StreetPhotography #BlackAndWhitePhotography #ClassicMono #Monochrome #SouthernTier #WesternNY
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So. Much. #Texture.
📷 Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark III
🔎 Olympus M.Zuiko 14-42mm F3.5-5.6 R#ColorADay #BWFri #MicroFourThirds #Doors #UrbanDecay #PeelingPaint #StreetPhotography #BlackAndWhite #BNW #Monochrome #WesternNY #Appalachia #SouthernTier
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A moment of #calm for #ForestFriday.
📷 Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark III
🔎 Olympus M.Zuiko 14-42mm F3.5-5.6 R#Moss #Green #Brown #Trees #Forest #Appalachia #SouthernTier #WesternNY #MicroFourThirds #NaturePhotography #Mosstodon #LichenSubscribe
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A bit of Cuba Lake for #FishyFriday.
📷 Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark III
🔎 Olympus M.Zuiko 40-150mm F4.0-5.6 R#FromAbove #Water #Ripples #Reflections #NatureObservation #QuietWater #WesternNY #NewYorkState #SouthernTier #Appalachia #MicroFourThirds #Fishing #Fish
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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
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Remember Jonestown?
*christian #TheoBros are building a tech *utopia in #Appalachia
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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-lawsuitArchived:
https://archive.ph/p3wA6
#Environment #PFASPollution #PollutionRunoff #WaterIsLife #DevilsPiss -
Benjamin Tod, Matt Heckler and Jeff Loops published an Appalachia relief album on #bandcamp https://benjamintod.bandcamp.com/album/appalachia-flood-relief-session
Today no commission will be withheld from the donations.
Proceedings will go to the Community Housing Coalition in Marshall, NC where thousands were affected by hurricane Helene.#BandcampFriday #charity #appalachia #music #BenjaminTod #MattHeckler #JeffLoops #LostDogStreetBand #relief #helene
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It wouldn't be #worldphotographyday2023 without a picture from my Beloved #Appalachia
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This morning I did a little work on one of my side projects: a gothic novella set in the Appalachians of New Brunswick around the early 1970s. I’m thinking of doing a collection of NB rural gothic fiction. #GothicFiction #RuralGothic #Appalachia #NewBrunswick #AmWriting