#appalachia — Public Fediverse posts
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Godfestation is a journey of the soul and the open road through horrors and wonders, Southern Appalachia, and the American West. It’s been out for one month. Thank you to everyone who has got a copy!
#books #horror #Appalachia #magicalrealism1/2
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Godfestation is a journey of the soul and the open road through horrors and wonders, Southern Appalachia, and the American West. It’s been out for one month. Thank you to everyone who has got a copy!
#books #horror #Appalachia #magicalrealism1/2
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Godfestation is a journey of the soul and the open road through horrors and wonders, Southern Appalachia, and the American West. It’s been out for one month. Thank you to everyone who has got a copy!
#books #horror #Appalachia #magicalrealism1/2
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Godfestation is a journey of the soul and the open road through horrors and wonders, Southern Appalachia, and the American West. It’s been out for one month. Thank you to everyone who has got a copy!
#books #horror #Appalachia #magicalrealism1/2
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Godfestation is a journey of the soul and the open road through horrors and wonders, Southern Appalachia, and the American West. It’s been out for one month. Thank you to everyone who has got a copy!
#books #horror #Appalachia #magicalrealism1/2
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September 11 is, of course, the date that El Sandifer's annual piece on the 9/11/2011 installment of the newspaper comic Barney Google and Snuffy Smith comes out (and the one for the next year is posted on her Patreon). This year, we get a look at #Appalachia - its geology, its history and the stereotypes of Appalachians that exist.
"America a Prophecy" is indeed, a preposterous critical undertaking. It's also brilliant, each post a banger.
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September 11 is, of course, the date that El Sandifer's annual piece on the 9/11/2011 installment of the newspaper comic Barney Google and Snuffy Smith comes out (and the one for the next year is posted on her Patreon). This year, we get a look at #Appalachia - its geology, its history and the stereotypes of Appalachians that exist.
"America a Prophecy" is indeed, a preposterous critical undertaking. It's also brilliant, each post a banger.
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September 11 is, of course, the date that El Sandifer's annual piece on the 9/11/2011 installment of the newspaper comic Barney Google and Snuffy Smith comes out (and the one for the next year is posted on her Patreon). This year, we get a look at #Appalachia - its geology, its history and the stereotypes of Appalachians that exist.
"America a Prophecy" is indeed, a preposterous critical undertaking. It's also brilliant, each post a banger.
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September 11 is, of course, the date that El Sandifer's annual piece on the 9/11/2011 installment of the newspaper comic Barney Google and Snuffy Smith comes out (and the one for the next year is posted on her Patreon). This year, we get a look at #Appalachia - its geology, its history and the stereotypes of Appalachians that exist.
"America a Prophecy" is indeed, a preposterous critical undertaking. It's also brilliant, each post a banger.
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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.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/17/archiving-appalachia-one-chattanoogans-mission-to-save-the-musical-tapestry-of-the-american-south-chattanooga-times-free-press/ -
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
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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 275/284: The “Almost Heaven” Swings of West Virginia
Introduction Within the State of West Virginia, approximately forty-one (41) distinct “Almost Heaven” swings dot the scenic landscapes associated with the state. Though the entirety of the state is typically classified as Appalachian, the most dramatic of views often correspond with the main body of the state, thus excluding the Northern and Eastern Panhandles. Swing Characteristics Every “Almost Heaven” swing is intended to be a wooden structure with a sign in the shape of West […] -
The Final Straw Radio Podcast | A weekly Anarchist Radio Show & Podcast [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Appalachians Against Uranium + the Case of the Ulm 5
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Poetry in Crannóg Magazine Now Available
My poem “Weathering” is in Crannóg Magazine‘s Issue 64. The print version is available in bookshops all across Ireland (incl. The Winding Stair and Dubray Books in Dublin and Charlie Byrnes in Galway); Foyle’s in London; City Lights in San Francisco; and Harvard’s bookstore in Cambridge. Full list of stockists here. It can also be ordered online.
#Appalachia #Poets #Wv #appalachianPoets #appalachianWriters #Cambridge #CharlieByrnes #CityLights #Crannóg #CrannógMagazine #Dublin #DubrayBooks #FoyleS #galway #Harvard #HarvardBookstore #ireland #IrishLiteraryJournals #IrishPoetryJournals #literaryJournal #literaryJournals #London #poems #Poetry #poetryJournals #prosePoems #TheWindingStair #vCMccabe #vCMyers #vcmccabe #vcmccabeCom #vcmyers #vcmyersCom #westVirginia #writing #wvPoets #wvWriters -
Hype for the Future 235G: Marietta, Ohio
Introduction Marietta is a notable smaller community serving as the oldest city in Ohio and home to a number of local community amenities and attractions throughout the area. The community is also notable as one of the oldest communities of the Northwest Territory and directly descended from the New England settlers of the Ohio Company of Associates home to a number of historic districts and historical museums throughout the area. Notable sites within the city include the Campus Martius […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/06/23/hype-for-the-future-235g-marietta-ohio/
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Hype for the Future 235E: Noble County, Ohio
Overview Noble County is the most recent of the eighty-eight counties in the State of Ohio by date of establishment as well as the fourth-least-populated following only Vinton, Monroe, and Morgan Counties in the Appalachian region of the State. Today, the Village of Caldwell serves as the county seat and is notable for the historic county jail, now a museum and local information center serving both the community and the county as a whole. Villages located elsewhere within the boundaries of […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/06/23/hype-for-the-future-235e-noble-county-ohio/
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Hype for the Future 232G: Morgan County, Ohio
Overview Morgan County is a rural county in the southeastern portion of the State of Ohio which uses the Village of McConnelsville as the county seat and is home to notable community and natural features such as the Three Sisters Sunset Inn, the Historic Helmick Mill Covered Bridge, the Triple Nickel Diner, the Triple Nickel Dual 555 Sign Posts, and the Hideaway at Buck Ridge. Interestingly, the Triple Nickel refers to effectively the entire course of the Route 555 corridor.https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/06/20/hype-for-the-future-232g-morgan-county-ohio/
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#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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/03/29/hype-for-the-future-149a-city-of-saluda-north-carolina/
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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 […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/02/08/hype-for-the-future-100e-madison-county-north-carolina/
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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 […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/02/07/hype-for-the-future-99h-hayesville-north-carolina/
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Hype for the Future 96F: McDowell County, West Virginia
Introduction Geographically the southernmost of the fifty-five (55) counties representing the State of West Virginia, McDowell County is located deep within the Appalachian Mountains, west of the Bluefield area and east of Pikeville, Kentucky. Today the poorest county in the United States of America per capita, the region is historically known for coal mining operations, along with nearby regions in southern West Virginia, western Virginia, and eastern Kentucky. The coalfields are of […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/02/04/hype-for-the-future-96f-mcdowell-county-west-virginia/
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Hype for the Future 96A: Highland and Bath Counties, Virginia
Overview — Highland County One of the least populated and highest-elevation counties in the eastern United States, Highland County, Virginia, is located relatively near the Blue Ridge Mountains, at the intersection of Routes 220 and 250. The Monterey Inn is the chief place to stay within the county, which may contain limited cell service as a result of being physically located within the National Radio Quiet Zone (NRQZ). The National Radio Quiet Zone, originating at the sensitive Green […] -
Hype for the Future 77Q: State Parks of Mid-Appalachian Ohio
Introduction Located within the midst of Appalachian Ohio, the region south of the City of Logan in Hocking County and select surrounding counties is highly identified as a recreational area associated with the State. Of the state parks associated with the region, Hocking Hills is often identified as the most notable; however, additional state parks are also identified as influential to the greater community. State Parks To the south of Hocking Hills, the region also contains the Lake Hope […] -
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If you want to know why #OliverAnthony went viral listen to this woman.
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https://youtu.be/xsddxI0TZuc?si=1khXR8au1Fiqjqbf
If you want to know why #OliverAnthony went viral listen to this woman.
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https://youtu.be/xsddxI0TZuc?si=1khXR8au1Fiqjqbf
If you want to know why #OliverAnthony went viral listen to this woman.
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https://youtu.be/xsddxI0TZuc?si=1khXR8au1Fiqjqbf
If you want to know why #OliverAnthony went viral listen to this woman.
#BarbaraKingsolver, #Appalachia, #EzraKlein -
https://youtu.be/xsddxI0TZuc?si=1khXR8au1Fiqjqbf
If you want to know why #OliverAnthony went viral listen to this woman.
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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