#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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@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.
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@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.
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@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.
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@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.
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@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.
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very fascinating episode from the #SmallTownMonsters team who are in #appalachia where the locals tell their #strange & terrifying experiences in the woods.
they then discuss & analyse their perspectives which is how all #science should be done. #WildMen #FeralPeople #Bigfoot #disappearances #Sasquatch#press #IndependentMedia #IndependentScience #nature #anthropology
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very fascinating episode from the #SmallTownMonsters team who are in #appalachia where the locals tell their #strange & terrifying experiences in the woods.
they then discuss & analyse their perspectives which is how all #science should be done. #WildMen #FeralPeople #Bigfoot #disappearances #Sasquatch#press #IndependentMedia #IndependentScience #nature #anthropology
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very fascinating episode from the #SmallTownMonsters team who are in #appalachia where the locals tell their #strange & terrifying experiences in the woods.
they then discuss & analyse their perspectives which is how all #science should be done. #WildMen #FeralPeople #Bigfoot #disappearances #Sasquatch#press #IndependentMedia #IndependentScience #nature #anthropology
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very fascinating episode from the #SmallTownMonsters team who are in #appalachia where the locals tell their #strange & terrifying experiences in the woods.
they then discuss & analyse their perspectives which is how all #science should be done. #WildMen #FeralPeople #Bigfoot #disappearances #Sasquatch#press #IndependentMedia #IndependentScience #nature #anthropology
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very fascinating episode from the #SmallTownMonsters team who are in #appalachia where the locals tell their #strange & terrifying experiences in the woods.
they then discuss & analyse their perspectives which is how all #science should be done. #WildMen #FeralPeople #Bigfoot #disappearances #Sasquatch#press #IndependentMedia #IndependentScience #nature #anthropology
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very fascinating episode from the #SmallTownMonsters team who are in #appalachia where the locals tell their #strange & terrifying experiences in the woods.
they then discuss & analyse their perspectives which is how all #science should be done. #WildMen #FeralPeople #Bigfoot #disappearances #Sasquatch#press #IndependentMedia #IndependentScience #nature #anthropology
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very fascinating episode from the #SmallTownMonsters team who are in #appalachia where the locals tell their #strange & terrifying experiences in the woods.
they then discuss & analyse their perspectives which is how all #science should be done. #WildMen #FeralPeople #Bigfoot #disappearances #Sasquatch#press #IndependentMedia #IndependentScience #nature #anthropology
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very fascinating episode from the #SmallTownMonsters team who are in #appalachia where the locals tell their #strange & terrifying experiences in the woods.
they then discuss & analyse their perspectives which is how all #science should be done. #WildMen #FeralPeople #Bigfoot #disappearances #Sasquatch#press #IndependentMedia #IndependentScience #nature #anthropology
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very fascinating episode from the #SmallTownMonsters team who are in #appalachia where the locals tell their #strange & terrifying experiences in the woods.
they then discuss & analyse their perspectives which is how all #science should be done. #WildMen #FeralPeople #Bigfoot #disappearances #Sasquatch#press #IndependentMedia #IndependentScience #nature #anthropology
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very fascinating episode from the #SmallTownMonsters team who are in #appalachia where the locals tell their #strange & terrifying experiences in the woods.
they then discuss & analyse their perspectives which is how all #science should be done. #WildMen #FeralPeople #Bigfoot #disappearances #Sasquatch#press #IndependentMedia #IndependentScience #nature #anthropology
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Hype for the Future 231E: Pike County, Ohio
Overview Pike County is a notable county in the south-central portion of the State of Ohio associated with the relatively rural Appalachian Ohio, with the City of Waverly and the Villages of Beaver and Piketon located within and Waverly serving as the county seat. Notable highways located within the boundaries of the county include Routes 23, 32, 41, 104, 124, 220, 335, 552, 772, and 776.https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/hype-for-the-future-231e-pike-county-ohio/
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This Dark Road To Mercy by Wiley Cash
This Dark Road to Mercy is another memorable novel from Cash. Without getting into too many spoilers, the book follows two young sisters in 1990s North Carolina who find themselves on the run with their estranged father. It's a tense, propulsive story that weaves together themes of family, poverty, and redemption against the backdrop of Appalachian culture.https://www.nateshivar.com/30743/this-dark-road-to-mercy-by-wiley-cash/
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Fairies, folk healers, and the problem of the “witch”
I’ve recently been reading Ann Jefferies and the Fairies: A Source Book for a Seventeenth-Century Fairy Witch, published a few years ago by folklore researcher Simon Young. The book collects documents about the Cornish fairy seer Ann Jefferies, who claimed to have received healing powers from little men and women clad in green whom she called “fairies.”
One thing that struck me while reading the book is how strongly Ann herself would have rejected the label “witch”—something that Young readily admits. Like many folk healers and fairy seers in places as far removed as England and Appalachia, Ann considered her powers to be spiritually legitimate—even Christian.
The distinction between healer and witch was particularly important for people like Ann in the seventeenth century. The mid-1600s were possibly the most dangerous time for someone who claimed supernatural powers: not only was the witch hysteria still alive—which meant that consorting with fairies might lead someone to be branded a witch—the Puritans were in the ascendancy, and Ann, a royalist, was considered extra suspect because she prophesied a miraculous return of the King (whom the Puritans had recently imprisoned). When she was asked to tell her story in the 1690s, the situation had evidently changed: although she remained scared of the authorities, interest in prosecuting folk healers or fairy seers as “witches” had apparently waned. (Even someone as committed to Christianity as the Bishop of Gloucester now sympathized with Ann’s story.) This suggests that the automatic identification of “fairy healing” with witchcraft had also weakened considerably, and fairy familiars were no longer assumed to be diabolical.
The book got me thinking a lot about folk healers and fairy seers in the geography I deal with, especially New England and Appalachia. Like Ann, these healers and seers would also have objected to the witch label. While folk healing thrived in both locations, and the tradition of special people gaining power from the fairies appeared intermittently, these healers and seers never identified as witches and often understood their work as combating witchcraft. These traditions surfaced in various forms in North America: In folktales from Pennsylvania Dutch Country, we find a hunter who learned perfect hunting ability from a “little gray man” in the Blue Mountains; a healer who practiced white magic that he learned from an “old gray man” in the Netherlands; and a herbalist who claimed to have observed a mysterious forest dwarf deep in the woods of Berks County.
In New England, we find that the fairies sometimes bestowed knowledge of the future on their favored people, just as they did on Ann. But this had nothing to do with witchcraft: I recently met a woman in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, whose Irish great-grandmother (called Mary Sullivan) claimed that “a banshee” had told her that a family member was about to die, suggesting that some New Englanders viewed the fairies as a source of hidden knowledge. In Southern Appalachia, folk healing sometimes intersected with older fairy traditions, even when people no longer openly believed in fairies as a coherent supernatural race, but such practices were clearly differentiated from witchcraft. These people most likely saw their skills as an attempt to counter the negative influence of witches.
The one folktale I’ve come across in Appalachia where an ambiguous attitude toward witchcraft exists is “The Witchie Folk.” Originating in Scotland, this tale was collected in Pennsylvania but apparently took root originally in West Virginia. In this story, we find a fairylike community of “witchie” people who are first looked at with suspicion but are later embraced as sympathetic beings. Deriving their power from the moon, the witchie folk apparently represent a memory of the old Scottish openness toward fairies that once existed in early-modern Scottish folklore, something I discuss in greater detail in my book. The story also suggests that at least some Appalachians understood that the distinction between witches and folk healers could become slippery. Perhaps some people really did believe that the only effective defense against witchcraft was accessing the same powers feared in witches themselves.
Rather than identifying as witches, most folk healers and seers like Ann—in Appalachia and England—identified as Christian and even performed their healings in the “name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.” Ann’s fairies justified their bestowal of special powers by referring to the scriptures. Where fairy traditions existed explicitly in Appalachia—such as in the tradition of naming staurolite crystals in Virginia, Georgia, and North Carolina “fairy stones”—these traditions had to be “Christened,” in this case by inventing a legend that would sanctify the naming tradition and turn the fairies, ostensibly, into “Christians.” Many of these themes—Christian fairy belief, folk healing, banshees, fairy stones, and the uneasy boundary between healing and witchcraft—are explored in my forthcoming book, Fairies of Northern Appalachia. There I trace how older fairy traditions survived, adapted, and sometimes disguised themselves in the mountains and borderlands of eastern North America.
#AnnJefferies #Appalachia #banshee #christianity #Cornish #Fairies #Fairy #fairyStones #folklore #healing #history #Irish #Magic #NewEngland #NorthernAppalachia #witch #witchcraft #witches #WitchieFolk -
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/03/13/hype-for-the-future-133p-martin-county-kentucky/
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Hype for the Future 133J: Mineral County, West Virginia
Introduction Mineral County is situated within the eastern side of the State of West Virginia, within relatively close proximity to the Eastern Panhandle of the State of West Virginia and located to the east of the Eastern Continental Divide (ECD). Amenities The Nancy Hanks Memorial Plaque and Replica Cabin is situated on the southern side of the county limits, well to the south of the central area of unincorporated New Creek, while WVU Potomac State College represents the primary […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/03/13/hype-for-the-future-133j-mineral-county-west-virginia/
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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 […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/03/13/hype-for-the-future-133i-city-of-beckley-west-virginia/
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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 […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/03/13/hype-for-the-future-133i-city-of-beckley-west-virginia/
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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 […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/03/13/hype-for-the-future-133i-city-of-beckley-west-virginia/
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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 […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/03/13/hype-for-the-future-133i-city-of-beckley-west-virginia/
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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 […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/03/13/hype-for-the-future-133i-city-of-beckley-west-virginia/
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Hype for the Future 133E: City of Hinton, West Virginia
Overview The City of Hinton serves as the county seat of Summers County in the southern portion of the State of West Virginia and is centrally located within the county, along the New River near the mouth of the Greenbrier River. Attractions in the area include the Veterans Memorial Museum, the Hinton Railroad Museum, the Campbell-Flannagan-Murrell House Museum, and the Guest House Inn on Courthouse Square, with scenic areas further into the vicinity also including such features as the […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/03/13/hype-for-the-future-133e-city-of-hinton-west-virginia/
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Hype for the Future 133E: City of Hinton, West Virginia
Overview The City of Hinton serves as the county seat of Summers County in the southern portion of the State of West Virginia and is centrally located within the county, along the New River near the mouth of the Greenbrier River. Attractions in the area include the Veterans Memorial Museum, the Hinton Railroad Museum, the Campbell-Flannagan-Murrell House Museum, and the Guest House Inn on Courthouse Square, with scenic areas further into the vicinity also including such features as the […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/03/13/hype-for-the-future-133e-city-of-hinton-west-virginia/
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Hype for the Future 133E: City of Hinton, West Virginia
Overview The City of Hinton serves as the county seat of Summers County in the southern portion of the State of West Virginia and is centrally located within the county, along the New River near the mouth of the Greenbrier River. Attractions in the area include the Veterans Memorial Museum, the Hinton Railroad Museum, the Campbell-Flannagan-Murrell House Museum, and the Guest House Inn on Courthouse Square, with scenic areas further into the vicinity also including such features as the […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/03/13/hype-for-the-future-133e-city-of-hinton-west-virginia/
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Hype for the Future 133E: City of Hinton, West Virginia
Overview The City of Hinton serves as the county seat of Summers County in the southern portion of the State of West Virginia and is centrally located within the county, along the New River near the mouth of the Greenbrier River. Attractions in the area include the Veterans Memorial Museum, the Hinton Railroad Museum, the Campbell-Flannagan-Murrell House Museum, and the Guest House Inn on Courthouse Square, with scenic areas further into the vicinity also including such features as the […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/03/13/hype-for-the-future-133e-city-of-hinton-west-virginia/
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Hype for the Future 133E: City of Hinton, West Virginia
Overview The City of Hinton serves as the county seat of Summers County in the southern portion of the State of West Virginia and is centrally located within the county, along the New River near the mouth of the Greenbrier River. Attractions in the area include the Veterans Memorial Museum, the Hinton Railroad Museum, the Campbell-Flannagan-Murrell House Museum, and the Guest House Inn on Courthouse Square, with scenic areas further into the vicinity also including such features as the […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/03/13/hype-for-the-future-133e-city-of-hinton-west-virginia/
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#Dallas glowing like a circuit board beneath the wing tonight ✨
But the best part of the journey is what comes next. Heading #home to the quiet ridges of #Appalachia and my beloved Tiger Mountain, where the lights grow fewer, the stars grow brighter, and the #Appalachian mountains are my home. Did I mention the #BabySharks? 🐶
Big city below, Blue Ridge ahead.
Homeward bound. 💕#DallasFromAbove #AppalachiaBound #BlueRidgeMountains #AncestryRoads #MountainHome @Appalachian
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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 […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/02/07/hype-for-the-future-99i-biltmore-estate/
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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 […] -
Hype for the Future 78G: The Marietta-Parkersburg Area
Introduction Located within the southeastern portion of the State of Ohio and relatively northwest in the main body of the State of West Virginia is the Marietta-Parkersburg combined area. While Marietta is located directly along the Ohio River to serve as the county seat of Washington County, Parkersburg is located further downstream to serve as the county seat of Wood County. Marietta also serves as the oldest city in Ohio and as a community on the mouth of the Muskingum River, whereas […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/01/17/hype-for-the-future-78g-the-marietta-parkersburg-area/
