#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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#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
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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
#nonfiction
#America
#Appalachia
#SocialJustice
#poverty
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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.
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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
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Early morning views while Charlotte the Spider tears down her web.
#nature
#naturephotography
#smokies
#appalachia
#appalachianculture
#spider
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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/
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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 blackThere will be mourning in #Appalachia.
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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
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#Haunted #Appalachia | NEVER #Whistle in the #Mountains at #Night #Beauty andtheBeasts #yt #spoopy
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This week, I am babysitting this absolutely perfectly mannered #pup for one of my besties. Meet Maggie.
#silentsunday #dogs #dogsoffediverse #goldenretiever #appalachia
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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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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
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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/ -
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
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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 -
"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
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Hype for the Future 235I: Belmont County, Ohio
Overview Belmont County is a notable suburban and semi-rural county located along the Ohio River and the eastern edge of the State of Ohio directly west of Wheeling, West Virginia, home to notable communities such as Bellaire, Martins Ferry, Saint Clairsville, Barnesville, Bethesda, Bridgeport, Brookside, Fairview, Flushing, Holloway, Morristown, Powhatan Point, Shadyside, Wilson, and Yorkville. Today, the county is home to notable community amenities such as the National Imperial Glass […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/06/23/hype-for-the-future-235i-belmont-county-ohio/
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Hype for the Future 177Q: City of Rogersville, Tennessee
Overview The City of Rogersville is a community that serves as the county seat of Hawkins County in East Tennessee, with the community associated with the Hale Springs Inn, the Swift Museum, and the Amis Mill Eatery.https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/04/26/hype-for-the-future-177q-city-of-rogersville-tennessee/
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Hype for the Future 149D: Central Rutherford County, North Carolina
Introduction Much of the County of Rutherford in the State of North Carolina is identified as an urban cluster at town size, combining the communities of Rutherfordton, Ruth, Forest City, and Spindale. Today, each municipality is associated with the heritage of the entire county, with distinct perspectives within each individual community and beyond. Travel Rutherford County, North Carolina, is associated with United States Routes 64, 74, 74A, 74 Business, 221, and 221A; and North Carolina […] -
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 […] -
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.https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/03/01/hype-for-the-future-121b-churchville-virginia/
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Hype for the Future 103P: George Washington and Jefferson National Forests
Introduction Though the George Washington and Jefferson parcels are largely physically separate, much of the northern section of the forested area is part of the George Washington National Forest, while much of the southern side is the Jefferson National Forest. While the vast majority of the forested area is split between the Commonwealth of Virginia and the State of West Virginia, the Commonwealth of Kentucky also receives the tail end of the Jefferson National Forest, specifically in Pike […] -
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 […] -
A rare peek behind the curtain...
#HumansOfMastodon #Selfie #BlackAndWhite #BNW #Monochrome #TieDye #EastcoastKin #Appalachia #MobilePhotography
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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 -
As #hurricane #Milton heads across the Gulf of Mexico towards #Tampa gaining destructive power above water heated by #ClimateChange , #DoNothing #BananaRepublican #MarjorieThreeToes Greene is telling her constituents - and others in #Appalachia still recovering from #Helene - that “Yes (#Democrats ) can control the #weather. It’s ridiculous for anyone to lie and say it can’t be done.”https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-georgia-hurricane-helene-b2623999.html
#USpol #VoteBlueNoMatterWho to #SaveAmerica from the #MAGA #cult of ignorance and hate.
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Continuing my research on the #BristolSessions , the start of recorded #CountryMusic , Mr A P Carter of the Carter Family.
Before he drove June and his wife, Sarah, to be recorded, "he was a travelling salesman, and was tramping around southwestern #Virginia selling fruit trees."
Read about his life and life on his #WikiTree profile that was written by a fellow #Appalachia Project member:
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My 2024 #Genealogy #Goals is to work on #Appalachian #Notables from the #BristolSessions, considered to be the first recordings of modern #CountryMusic, on #WikiTree.
Mother Maybelle of the Carter Family.
She's primarily remembered for her mastery of the autoharp. Her innovative fingerpicking techniques & ability to create complex melodies on the instrument helped popularize it in country music.
"Wildwood Flower"