#appalachian — Public Fediverse posts

Mirror Mondays: Jackson as a Mirror
My Sunny Valley, OH, setting helped me define Jackson, IL. Now the real Jackson, OH, is helping me redefine Sunny Valley for the NIGHT SHIFT RPG.
#ttrpg #horror #Appalachian #NIGHTSHIFT
https://theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2026/09/mirror-mondays-jackson-as-mirror.html

At 91, Dale Sanders reclaims record as oldest hiker to complete the Appalachian Trail

https://abcnews.com/US/wireStory/91-dale-grey-beard-sanders-reclaims-record-oldest-136091933

#Hiking #Appalachian #AT

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

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

@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

#Caturday. Apparently the #Appalachian Mountain Bungalow came with four #feral neighborhood #cats.

We are calling this one Cali. She comes just so close and then runs away. But we are making progress. She now allows us to go in our backyard when she is on her throne (fence). The #Yorkies are convinced they can be besties. 🤔

Next week, we are going to bribe her with treats.

#Appalachia
@Appalachian

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

Four songs my mother taught me

https://makertube.net/w/1wkZ2vAGAJtRdpqKyiDuCZ

SUNDAY MATINEE MUSIC VIDEO! “Dumb Angel (live)” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1adaRT-TVpU A 2002 live take of my surrealistic pop song that I wrote after a dream that included Brian Wilson, Lewis Carroll, and Elvis Presley. In my dream they all made an appearance where I grew up in the backwater Appalachian village of Avis PA.

#dumbangel #angel #surrealism #brianwilson #lewiscarroll #elvispresley #chapel #johnnyjblair #singersongwriter #avis #pennsylvania #appalachian

If I Don’t Get the Years, I Want the Minutes

https://lauraleacupp.wordpress.com/2026/07/07/if-i-dont-get-the-years-i-want-the-minutes/

"O Death", also known as "O, Death", "Oh Death", "Conversations with Death", or "A Conversation with Death", is a traditional #Appalachian folk song, listed as #number4933 in the #RoudFolkSongIndex. The song is generally attributed to the musician and Baptist preacher #LloydChandler, but it was likely taken or adapted from folk songs already existing in the region. The song has been covered in a variety of contexts, including films, video games, and television.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bysCvrpgaU8

Jimmy Triplett – Lee Hammons Repertoire Vol. 1
#Appalachian #Folk #fiddletunes #oldtimemusic #WestVirginia
CC BY-NC (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial) #ccmusic
https://skyislandstringband.bandcamp.com/album/lee-hammons-repertoire-vol-1

"O Death", also known as "O, Death", "Oh Death", "Conversations with Death", or "A Conversation with Death", is a traditional #Appalachian folk song, listed as #number4933 in the #RoudFolkSongIndex. The song is generally attributed to the musician and Baptist preacher #LloydChandler, but it was likely taken or adapted from folk songs already existing in the region. The song has been covered in a variety of contexts, including films, video games, and television.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzMpouCXy0Q

After almost a year from buying a place in the #BlueRidgeMountains, we finally had a #datenight. I promise you that there is nothing like living in a small town and supporting small business owners. 🏡

Living slow, dining local, and drinking something strong (yes, #moonshine) under #Appalachian skies. Around here, the sunsets stop traffic, everybody knows your name, and the stories get better after dark. Small town life may not move fast but it sure knows how to live. I am so fortunate. The sunsets are pretty fabulous too!

Also, how cool is it that I'm standing in the middle of the road to take this picture. 😁

#Appalachia #Sunsets #SmallTown #Georgia

Where the Fae Still Wander Free

https://kandiblaze.wordpress.com/2026/04/28/where-the-fae-still-wander-free/

As far as we know, we are the only prison book program on Mastodon. However, there are many other prison book programs in the United States. One is the #Appalachian Prison Book Program, which sends books to people incarcerated in #WestVirginia, #Virginia, #Tennessee, #Kentucky, #Ohio and #Maryland. The founder, Katy Ryan, has some quotes online at https://www.newswise.com/articles/expert-on-prison-education-says-books-open-doors-for-incarcerated-people

#KatyRyan

Move over #Appalachian trail here comes #martini trail

https://www.foodandwine.com/san-francisco-martini-trail-11940823?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us #cocktails #travel #sanfrancisco #booze

The Dick Brothers – The Dick Brothers
#Appalachian #Folk #acoustic #country #folk
CC BY-NC-ND (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives) #ccmusic
https://thedickbrothers.bandcamp.com/album/the-dick-brothers

An #Appalachian saying...

What we give doesn't always return, but what we give is always what we are.

#quotes #quoteoftheday #Appalachia #quoteposts

#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

“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:
https://theintercept.com/2025/12/03/appalachia-nc-ice-protest-immigrants

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/clCyC

#ResistICE #ICESucks #USPol #TrumpSucks

A bit of excitement this morning. There is a #dog #kennel near our #Appalachian #Bungalow. This morning, a doggie got out and ran faster than Usain Bolt.

I heard the employees yelling for the dog and instantly grabbed the #BabySharks bag of dog food to give to them as they drove by.

I walked the neighborhood looking for the pup and only knowing it's size/color. No luck.

Four hours later, the pup was found. Can you imagine being on vacation w/your pup being boarded... and lost???

The official unofficial account for our new #Appalachian #Mountain #Bungalow.

Follow along our journey on updating the bungalow and life around Southern #Appalachia.

@Appalachian #homerenovations #renovations #HistoricHomes

After years of looking, it is hard to believe I'll own a piece of the Blue Ridge #Mountains (somewhere down there is the #Appalachian #Bungalow).

#fotomontag #photomonday #nature #blueridgemountains #appalachia #georgia

🎉 My #day30 map showing a Relative Elevation Model (REM) of the New River and New River Gorge in West Virginia. It is considered as the oldest river in North America and flows south to north through the Appalachians. HT to #ESRI S. Fleming for the tutorial.

Well this is off my bucket list. Looking forward to admiring next year's maps! Thanks @tjukanov !

#NewRiverGorge #NewRiver #WestVirginia #Appalachian #NPS #NationalParks #REM #DTM #ArcPro #30DayMapChallenge