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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. Today the big moving van left the big city for the mountains.

    Bittersweet moment to leave a loving home of 20+ years but the #Appalachians were calling me home.

    It definitely was the house that built me. Now it is time to get back to my heritage and create new stories. My soul belongs in these mountains.

    #Atlanta suburbs are no longer welcoming.

    #Appalachia #Georgia #BlueRidgeMountains

  7. It’s book release day for Godfestation, my Appalachian weird horror novella! Out via Sley House Publishing. Order from your favorite bookseller in paperback or ebook.

    #books #newrelease #horror #darkfantasy #horrorbooks #Appalachia #folkhorror

  8. 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

  9. #introduction. I'm Sunflower (not my real name), & I'm new to #Mastodon. (She/her/y'all). 30-something w/ fond memories of the #90s & early #2000s. I live w/ a hidden #disability & chronic #migraine. I like writing #altText on my photos, & maybe I have a bit too much fun w/ it. I love #crafting #hiking #photography #books & #fungi. I'm passionate about #Appalachia #Travel & #coffee. I love #rain, rainy days are my favorite. I try to practice #gratitude & see myself as a #nerd. Thx for ⭐️ & 🔄!

  10. One week to my strangest journey, Godfestation! Why are monsters and luminous beings appearing wherever Fern goes, and can she escape them? Find out on August 11 in this Appalachian weird horror novella. Via Sley House Publishing.
    #books #horror #fantasy #Appalachia #folkhorror

  11. If you really listen, you'll discover that #Appalachians speak in #poetry. You just have to open your mind and heart.

    #Appalachia

  12. "The View from the Lost World", I call this one. Oh, it's rainier and more humid than it was, and the views are more mountainous, but up here on these Smoky Mountains is the forest that once covered the South during the last glacial period...and will again in the next.

    #art #photography #forest #landscape #beautifullandscape #SmokyMountains #AmericanSouth #Appalachia #woods #clouds #cloudscape #woodlands #trees #landscape #mountains

  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. Hype for the Future 183P: Bristol, Virginia and Tennessee

    Overview Located firmly within the Appalachian region of the United States of America are the twin cities of Bristol, Virginia; and Bristol, Tennessee; both associated with the Tennessee Tri-Cities region along with Kingsport and Johnson City to the west and southwest. Within the downtown area of the city, State Street is effectively divided evenly between the Commonwealth of Virginia to the north and the State of Tennessee to the south. On the Virginian side, Bristol is an independent city […]

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  16. 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 […]

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

    Overview The Town of Lake Lure is a community located within the boundaries of Rutherford County, North Carolina, and is associated with namesake Lake Lure, acquired in 1965. Located along United States Route 74 Alternate, the town is home to numerous places to stay, including the Grafton Lodge Bed and Breakfast and the Shaded Crest, as well as the Lake House Restaurant Bar and Grill and numerous amenities within the nearby areas, especially further east. Route 9 also serves the vicinity of […]

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  18. 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.

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  19. 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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  20. Hype for the Future 133O: The Country Music Highway

    Introduction Within the Commonwealth of Kentucky, United States Route 23 covers the region from south of Portsmouth, Ohio, to north of the vicinity of Pound, Virginia. Today, the highway route covers a grand total of seven (7) counties in the region of the Eastern Kentucky Coalfields, namely Greenup, Boyd, Lawrence, Johnson, Floyd, Pike, and Letcher. Communities While the United States Route 23 Country Music Highway Museum is situated within the area around Paintsville, Kentucky, […]

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  21. Hype for the Future 133I: City of Beckley, West Virginia

    Introduction The City of Beckley is located within Raleigh County in the southern part of the State of West Virginia and, along with Bluefield and Oak Hill nearby, represents the core of the media market largely centered around the Bluestone Valley. Notable Attractions While the “Tamarack” marketplace is a notable stop off the tolled West Virginia Turnpike within the area, notable features of the inner city include the Wildwood House Museum and the seasonal Beckley Exhibition Coal […]

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  22. 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.

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  23. Hype for the Future 121B: Churchville, Virginia

    Overview The unincorporated community of Churchville is located within the western portion of Augusta County, Virginia, named for Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha. Today, the community is located along United States Route 250 and Virginia Route 42, the latter of which serves smaller mountain communities largely parallel to United States Route 11 albeit further west.

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  24. Hype for the Future 119G: United States Route 11 in Pennsylvania, South of Shamokin Dam

    Introduction Within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States Route 11 is situated within the Appalachian Mountains, often toward the eastern side of the Commonwealth from southwest to northeast and somewhat parallel to Route 220 to the north. Trajectory — Franklin County Within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the first county after crossing the Mason-Dixon Line that is covered is Franklin County, including the community of State Line within Antrim Township. Today, the Antrim […]

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  25. Hype for the Future 104G: The Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest

    Introduction Located within the State of Georgia in the United States of America is the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest, a combined national forest unit spanning the Chattahoochee National Forest along the northern state line of the State of Georgia as well as the Oconee National Forest at quite a significant distance to the south. Geography The Chattahoochee National Forest is effectively situated at the southern end of the Blue Ridge Mountains, while the Oconee National Forest area […]

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  26. Hype for the Future 100G: Ashe County, North Carolina

    Introduction Ashe County is located at the northwestern corner of the State of North Carolina, with the Commonwealth of Virginia to the north and the State of Tennessee to the west. The county is deeply embedded within the Great Smoky Mountains and is a popular vacation and retiree destination located within the higher elevations of the region, especially attractive to visitors from Florida, Georgia, and the lower elevations of the Carolinas. Communities While the Town of Jefferson is the […]

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

    Introduction Madison County is located along the western edge of the State of North Carolina, with the Town of Marshall serving as the county seat and the Town of Mars Hill to the east serving as the largest community within the county. Attractions Locally within the Town of Marshall is an art gallery known as “Flow” as well as a statue on the Charters of Freedom. Further east, the Town of Mars Hill is home to Mars Hill University as well as the Mars Landing Galleries and Arts Center […]

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  28. Hype for the Future 100C: Town of Spruce Pine, North Carolina

    Overview The Town of Spruce Pine represents the largest town located within the boundaries of Mitchell County, North Carolina, and is situated within one of just a few places where high-purity quartz can be found, especially within the Spruce Pine Mining District. While not much exists in tourist attractions within Spruce Pine, lodging is available throughout the community and Mitchell County, including the iconic Blue Ridge Boutique Hotel.

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  29. Hype for the Future 100B: Grandfather Mountain

    Introduction Largely associated with Avery County, Grandfather Mountain is situated at the highest elevation along the Eastern Continental Divide in the United States of America. Though Mount Mitchell is situated at an even higher elevation, Mitchell is located further west and not along the Eastern Continental Divide in any way. Infrastructure The entirely gated community known as Grandfather is located directly at the centerpiece of Grandfather Mountain in the western portion of the […]

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

    Overview Situated immediately outside the Town of Banner Elk are two notable ski resorts in the area, namely the Beech Mountain Resort in the north and the Sugar Mountain Resort in the south. Wildcat Lake is situated nearby, and Grandfather Mountain is situated somewhat further to the southeast. In town, however, is the Banner House Museum, largely home to preserved historical artifacts from the 1860s in an analogous historic home. To the east of town, the Banner Elk community is also home […]

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

    Overview The Town of Banner Elk is the largest town located within Avery County, North Carolina. However, the Town of Newland to the south serves as the county seat, and the most significant geographical interest related to the county is the relatively high elevation associated with the Blue Ridge Mountains in the region. Today, the Town of Newland is the county seat with the highest elevation east of the Mississippi River, while the Town of Banner Elk is home to the college or university of […]

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  32. 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 […]

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  33. Hype for the Future 99J: Haywood County, North Carolina

    Introduction Haywood County is located in the western portion of the State of North Carolina and serves as the largest county by population in the portion of the state west of the City of Asheville. The smaller City of Waynesville serves as the county seat, and the artificial Lake Junaluska to the north anchors a significant unincorporated community and a novelty residential area similar to gated communities located elsewhere throughout the nation. Geography The City of Waynesville is […]

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  34. Hype for the Future 99I: Biltmore Estate

    Introduction Located within the City of Asheville and Buncombe County, North Carolina, is the highly renowned and often prestigious location known as the Biltmore Estate. The Biltmore Estate, though with perhaps a lesser-known history, is largely influenced by the geographical setting of the area within the Appalachian Mountains, with the Great Smoky Mountains to the west and the Blue Ridge Mountains to the east. Context According to the Biltmore website, the Biltmore Estate represents the […]

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  35. Hype for the Future 99H: Hayesville, North Carolina

    Overview — Hayesville The Town of Hayesville is centrally located within Clay County, North Carolina, and serves as the county seat. Located in the western portion of the State of North Carolina immediately north of the Georgia state line is the town, which serves as home to the Clay County Historical and Arts Museum as well as the Historic Clay County Courthouse at the Beal Center. Overview — Clay County Outside the Town of Hayesville, additional communities of county interest include […]

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  36. Still the heaviest I've ever seen: 20 inches in a single night, and heavy, wet stuff to boot. But that's what it's like when you're in Asheville and it's, as I put it, "Pouring Snow".

    #art #photography #NorthCarolina #winter #noreaster #snow #snowstorm #heavysnow #AmericanSouth #Appalachia

  37. Hype for the Future 99F: The Great Smoky Mountains At-Large

    Introduction The Great Smoky Mountains, largely determining the border between the States of Tennessee and North Carolina, is identified as a region of cultural significance, with many of the thrill attractions on the Tennessee side in Sevier County while the historical museums of the area are predominantly on the North Carolina side of the border. Tennessee The most important tourist draw to the Great Smoky Mountains is the Tennessee side of the area, containing such communities as […]

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  38. Hype for the Future 96B: Mercer County, West Virginia

    Introduction One of the southernmost counties of the State of West Virginia, the community of Bluefield is primarily located within Mercer County, including the site of Bluefield State University. Unlike many other colleges and universities, though like many of the regional institutions throughout the Southern United States, car dependency is completely inevitable at Bluefield State within the area. Princeton is located further north along Interstate 77, and the Town of Athens, even further […]

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  39. Hype for the Future 77L: The Switzerland of Ohio

    Introduction The “Switzerland of Ohio,” typically referring to Monroe County including the county seat, Woodsfield, is largely identified by associated cultural similarities with the State of West Virginia and, in turn, with Northern Ireland as the Scots-Irish have largely determined the culture of the modern communities within the county, both from the perspectives of Shenandoah settlers and of settlers in the modern area around Washington County, Pennsylvania. As an integral portion of […]

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  40. “Real” America Is Turning Against #Trump’s #MassDeportation Regime

    Everyday Americans in #Appalachia and the #Southeast show that resisting #ICE is becoming the rule, rather than the exception.

    Alain Stephens
    December 3 2025, 3:30 p.m.

    "On a chilly evening in mid-November, about 135 people gathered along a highway in #BooneNC, a small #Appalachian college town not known as a hotbed of leftist protest. They held signs reading “#Nazis were just following orders too” and “Time to melt the ICE,” and chanted profane rebukes at Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents rumored to be in the area. “They came here thinking they wouldn’t be bothered,” one Appalachian State University student told The Appalachian at the impromptu rally. “Boone is a small, southern, white, mountain town. We need to let them know they’ll be bothered anywhere they go.” In a region often stereotyped as silently conservative, this flash of defiance was a startling sign that the battle lines of American politics are shifting in unexpected ways.

    For the past several weeks, the Trump administration has been rolling out a mass deportation campaign of unprecedented scope — one that is now reaching deep into Appalachia. Branded “#OperationCharlottesWeb,” a deployment of hundreds of Department of Homeland Security and Border Patrol agents descended on North Carolina in mid-November, making sweeping arrests in and around #CharlotteNC and into the state’s rural mountain counties.

    Officials billed the effort as targeting the “worst of the worst” criminal aliens, but the numbers tell a different story: More than 370 people were arrested, only 44 of whom had any prior criminal record, according to #DHS. The vast majority were ordinary undocumented residents — people going to work or school, not “violent criminals” — which underscores that the crackdown is less about public safety than meeting political quotas.

    Indeed, Trump campaigned on conducting the largest deportation operation in U.S. history, vowing to round up 15 to 20 million people (which is more than the estimated 14 million undocumented people living in the U.S.) and pressuring ICE to triple its arrest rates to 3,000 per day. The federal dragnet has already driven ICE arrests to levels not seen in years; immigrants without criminal convictions now make up the largest share of detainees. But the administration is also facing widespread resistance to its policy of indiscriminate arrests and mass deportations, not as the exception, but as the rule — and among everyday, fed-up Americans across the country."

    Read more:
    theintercept.com/2025/12/03/ap

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/clCyC

    #ResistICE #ICESucks #USPol #TrumpSucks

  41. #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