#appalachia

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 real Appalachia, according to Emilee Hackney -PBS NewsHour #pbs #appalachia https://youtu.be/EmuS7Dfcyg0?si=BBFQeuna9rfM8oO5

Today, a "tap tap tap" at our backdoor for several minutes. Suffering from a severe sinus infection, house is a mess, hair in a bun, a sick pup, there was zero chance I was going to open the door. In the mountains, we don't have random people that stop by or people trying to sell you religion or products. So, someone on a Sunday tapping at my back door is not normal. About 30 minutes later, I take the #Yorkies out before the big rain and found this box of #vegetables at the back gate. No note. I started to tear up at the kind gesture because this is who #Appalachians are. And not feeling well enough to cook, someone thought of me enough to supply food on what was a really mean week. #Appalachia is full of #kindness. And for dinner: the best #tomato sandwich I have ever had. #RandomActsOfKindness #Gardening #Garden #Tomatoes #Georgia

2,080 acre hyperscale data center zoning map application submitted in Maysville-Mason County #Kentucky near the #OhioRiver in rural #Appalachia for “Cloud computing technologies.” The site is in the Ohio River Watershed, along the boundary between the Lee Creek and Lawrence Creek sub-watersheds. The project, west of downtown Maysville, is near Slack Pike Road, Germantown Road and Valley Pike near 'D's Thirsty Beaver' which is located at 3538 Germantown Rd, Maysville, KY 41056. This is the third hype-scale data center within 31 miles to be built. # 2, in the last image, at the former Stuart Coal power plant in Adams County, Manchester, Ohio, has already received federal approval. Another one is planned for the shuttered Killen Station in Rome, Ohio, just east of Manchester, Ohio, all on the Ohio River, in Adams County, also. #DataCenter #News The Maysville-Mason County Joint Planning Commission will host two days of public hearings on Wednesday, March 25, and Thursday, March 26 at 5:30 p.m. at the Maysville Community and Technical College Fields Auditorium. https://maysville-online.com/news/214311/hyperscale-data-center-zoning-map-amendment-application-submitted Data Center portal, City of Maysville-Mason County Joint Planning Commission: https://www.cityofmaysvilleky.gov/departments/codes_department/data_center.php Data Center zoning application: https://cms5.revize.com/revize/maysville/Document%20Center/Forms/New%20node/Planning%20&%20Zoning/Rezoning%20Application%20-%20Proposed%20Data%20Center%20in%20Mason%20County.pdf?t=202603121435580&t=202603121435580