#appalachia — Public Fediverse posts

Black lung disease is rising again among Appalachian coal miners
#health #appalachia #coal #westvirginia #virginia

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsnationnow.com/health/black-lung-cases-central-appalachia/amp/

Black lung disease is rising again among Appalachian coal miners
#health #appalachia #coal #westvirginia #virginia

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsnationnow.com/health/black-lung-cases-central-appalachia/amp/

#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

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

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.

https://jodijones.bandcamp.com/album/american-dream

#Appalachia #Music #Folk

Hare Krishna Kitchens In W.Va., Soul Food And A Musician’s Call To Arms, Inside Appalachia https://www.diningandcooking.com/restaurants/20874/ #Appalachia #Arts&Culture #Asheville #HareKrishna #InsideAppalachia #podcast #PodcastInsideAppalachia #SoulFood #SoulFoodKitchen #SoulFoodKitchens #SoulFoodRestaurant #SoulFoodRestaurants #TashiDorji #XavierOglesby

Early morning views while Charlotte the Spider tears down her web.

#nature
#naturephotography
#smokies
#appalachia
#appalachianculture
#spider
#sunrise

https://youtu.be/SPP1HiIw3Uc?is=n6nW9L2EnBwBAt4p

Tennessee beauty is unmatched.
#nature
#naturephotography
#smokies
#appalachia
#appalachianculture
#moon
#orion
#constellation

https://youtube.com/shorts/wTAqVLI1Y4w?is=FthBU5SMM8hJHkRi

Dolly Parton !!??
Trump said on the Glenn Beck show of Dolly Parton -- "she really liked me." Really? You mean she liked this?
(go to Main Document ...Complaint ... look at pgs 2,3,4)

#music #art #countryMusic #nashville #tennessee #America #Epstein #EpsteinClass #meidastouch #Appalachia #GOP #reddit #politics #world

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4154484/katie-johnson-v-donald-j-trump/

In #Appalachia (and probably all of the Old South), we had traditions when a loved one died. Many no longer follow these traditions or only a few (Bees & Crows & Black):

-open all the windows
-cover the mirrors
-tell the bees
-tell the crows
-stop the clocks
-turn all the photos down
-wear black

There will be mourning in #Appalachia.

#RIPDolly

Dolly was so many things but at her heart she was an #Appalachian. When many treated Appalachians as dumb stupid hillbillies, she proved the opposite while still holding on to the traditions of #Appalachia.

She was our spokesperson.
She was ours even though she belonged to the world.

This hits hard.

RIP #Dolly #DollyParton

#Haunted #Appalachia | NEVER #Whistle in the #Mountains at #Night #Beauty andtheBeasts #yt #spoopy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3z5RJOpv7o

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

This week, I am babysitting this absolutely perfectly mannered #pup for one of my besties. Meet Maggie.

#silentsunday #dogs #dogsoffediverse #goldenretiever #appalachia

@Appalachian

I thought we had a Cali Cat sighting but no. It is her look a like: Fluffy Cat (her tail is seriously fluffy!).

No #CaliCat sighting since my son's Labrador chased her away. But, it has been extremely hot here and barely any of these ferals have been around.

#Caturday #Cat #Cats #FeralCats #Appalachia

It is a full biscuit morning here in the Blue Ridge Mountains. I am babysitting my son's dogs + a bestie's dog + the Yorkies.

A lot of mute time on my Zoom meetings today!

#Baking #Biscuit #Appalachia

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

💁🏻‍♀️ 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

People who support coal don't want you thinking about disasters like the 2000 Martin County, KY sludge spill.

306 million gallons of toxic waste, 30x larger than Exxon Valdez, and Massey Energy got fined $5,600 while communities dealt with contaminated water for over a decade.

The investigation got shut down when Bush took office. Extractive industries depend on you not connecting the dots between their profits and your poisoned water. "Sludge" from Appalshop documented the four years after the spill.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0XzWdHiCLk

#Environment #Environmentalism #Appalachia #Kentucky #CleanEnergy

Chattanooga Times Free Press: Archiving Appalachia: One Chattanoogan’s mission to save the musical tapestry of the American South. “Chattanooga Folk, a music archival website and repository, has digitized over 2,100 songs thus far in its online catalog, creating new access to music that had exclusively existed in physical form before the project.”

#silentsunday #appalachia #georgia #church

#fungi #fungiFriends #mushrooms #moss #Mosstodon #macro #photography #WV #Appalachia #bokeh

Two little hearts, one cozy chair, and a whole lot of love. 🐾❤️ Sometimes happiness is simply having your best friend right beside you. The #BabySharks

Hanging out in the #Appalachian Mountains at the @Appalachian Bungalow. Too hot to play outside.

#Dog #DogsofFediverse #Yorkies #Gratitude #Appalachia #Heatwave

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

@Appalachian I have discovered the #Veggie Gifter. It is our 81 year old #neighbor across the street.

I was in the yard with the Yorkies and she came running across the street with a big bag of fresh #garden #vegetables.

My gosh, I love small town #America.

#Tomatoes #Appalachia #Appalachian #Georgia

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).

Appalachians Against Uranium + the Case of the Ulm 5

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2026/07/26/appalachians-against-uranium-the-ulm-5/

We had some #storms the other day that ended in a beautiful #sunset of purples and pinks. Getting better at capturing them with the camera.

#Clouds #MicroFourThirds #Appalachia #EastCoastKin #ECK #Olympus #SouthernTier

Hype for the Future 116R: The Valley View Farm Venue

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/02/24/hype-for-the-future-116r-the-valley-view-farm-venue/

Christian “#TheoBros” Are Building a #Tech Utopia in #Appalachia –

#MotherJones

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/christian-theobros-are-building-a-tech-utopia-in-appalachia/

#ChristoFascists #SuperRich #BillionairesSUCK ##NerdReich #NaziUSA

#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

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

Our local green space has some beautiful #orange #Coneflowers this year.

📷 OColorADay-D E-M10 Mark III
🔎 Olympus M.Zuiko 14-42mm F3.5-5.6 R

#ColorADay #OrangeSun #EastCoastKin #Flowers #Rudbeckia #Summer #FlowerPhotography #MicroFourThirds #NaturePhotography #Gardens #Appalachia #SouthernTier

I miss this walking place. It's Chestnut Hill Cemetery in Portville, NY. Nice cardio hill, pretty views, quiet. I need to find myself a similar route around here.

#ColorADay #SatGreen #Cemeteries #Landscape #EastCoastKin #Appalachia #SouthernTier #Hillside #MobilePhotography #iPhonePhotography

Today was busy, so just getting to my daily photos.

Here's a lil cheerful guy on the side of the road, I love how the #BlackAndWhite gives the petals a paint-like quality.

#BnW_Macro #MicroFourThirds #EastCoastKin #Flowers #Skies #ClassicMono #Plants #Appalachia #SouthernTier

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

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

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

One more photo for today. A beautiful #sunset captured #MainStreet that I think fits the bill for the #AlphabetChallenge and #WeekFisForFire this week.

#Sunset #Photography #StreetPhotography #SmallTown #GoldenHour #Architecture #CityScape #EveningLight #SouthernTier #Appalachia

Remember Jonestown?

*christian #TheoBros are building a tech *utopia in #Appalachia

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/christian-theobros-are-building-a-tech-utopia-in-appalachia/

@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.

#NewSpecies of Duck-Billed #Dinosaur Identified in Texas
https://www.sci.news/paleontology/malefica-deckerti-11596.html Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195667122002804

"Although the material is fragmentary, the new species from #Texas indicates that basally-branching #hadrosaurids were also distributed in southern #Laramidia, in addition to #Appalachia and #Eurasia, evidencing the widespread occurrence of these early #hadrosaurid lineages in the northern hemisphere spanning the uppermost #Santonian through the Upper #Maastrichtian."