HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: pdunn@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Patrick L Dunn)
Newsgroups: alt.appalachian
Subject: Re: NOTICE: "Bigfoot/Sasquatch" Sightings Request
Date: 15 Sep 92 00:50:55 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University

In article <190t38INNftv@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ai065@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Thom
as Hill) writes:
>
>   Our research group is currently investigating reports and sightings of the
>animal known as "Bigfoot" or "Sasquatch". If you or somebody you know has had
>such a sighting, or come across what may be evidence supporting the existance
>of such an animal, please get in contact with us.

Why, I was supposed to have him right here in my closet!  Dag-nab-it, did he 
get out again?

PDunn
Newsgroups: alt.appalachian
From: gmclucki@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Gemma McLuckie)
Subject: Re: Alt.Appalachian User Poll
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 17:27:42 GMT

In article <1992Sep11.000857.8187@syacus.acus.oz.au> steven@syacus.acus.oz.au (
Steven Malikoff) writes:
>I have absolutely *no* connection to the location this group deals with.

Steve, honey, don't you know by now that Appalachia is a state of mind?

Gemma McLuckie

P.S. Wanna trade plane tickets? I'd love to go to Australia!  Thought about 
getting a Rotary Journalism Internship, but couldn't figure out what to do with
my teenage daughter for a year.  Lately I've been thinking that we *both* could
get into the Rotary program -- there's one for high school kids -- and both go 
to Australia.  Think it'd work out?
Newsgroups: alt.appalachian
From: burke@tss.com (Jim Burke)
Subject: Re: Alt.Appalachian User Poll
Reply-To: burke@tss.com (Jim Burke)
Organization: Teknekron Software Systems. Inc.
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 19:32:14 GMT

In article <1992Sep11.140804.6129@IDA.ORG>, rlw@IDA.ORG (Richard Wexelblat) writes:

|> : 4) What do you like least about the Appalachian region?
|> Insularity of the natives.


Perhaps Appalachian residents seem so isolationist because they have
been isolated for so long.  This is true in terms of physical location,
politics, and economics.  Also, knowing that the rest of the country
views you like the "Beverly Hillbillies" and that it is still socially
acceptable to make fun of "hillbillies" contributes to their overall
mistrust of "outsiders". 

-- 

	Jim Burke	"Life is uncertain - eat dessert first!"
	Teknekron Software Systems		... burke@tss.com
  	phone:(415) 617-2432			... uunet!tekbspa!burke
Newsgroups: alt.appalachian
From: pan@math.psu.edu (Garth Payne)
Subject: civil war story
Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Pennsylvania State University
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 04:09:13 GMT

My grandmother from Taylorsville, NC used 
to tell this story.

After the war was over, Confederate soldiers 
made their way home, stopping at farm houses 
along the way to ask for food.  My relation 
Isabella --I think she was an aunt of some 
degree-- always gave what she could.  

One day a tattered soldier appeared at her 
door, and she offered to go see what she 
could find for him.  He replied, "Bella, 
don't you know me?"  It was her own husband 
returning home after several years. She hadn't 
recognized him because he was so weary and 
aged by the war.

Garth Payne
From: takoosma@utkvx3.utk.edu (Toby Koosman)
Newsgroups: alt.appalachian
Subject: Re: Alt.Appalachian User Poll
Date: 8 Sep 92 22:24:00 GMT
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <9209081549.AA17791@news.cis.ohio-state.edu>, FURRJK@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu writes...
> 
>Listen up!  It's the alt.appalachian user poll!
> 
>Please answer the following questions, and post your responses to the net
>(don't mail them to me, post them to alt.appalachian for all to read!):
> 
>1) Where were you born and/or raised?  Outside Appalachia, or if you were born
>and/or raised in Appalachia, where?
I was born and raised in Los Angeles, California.
> 
>2) Where are you presently living?  Outside Appalachia, or if you are
>presently living in Appalachia, where?
Since '82 I've lived in Knoxville, Tennessee, a place which is not in but is
rather related to Appalachia.  My (unofficial) father-in-law is from around
Charleston, WV, where he was spared from a career in the mines by WWII and
the GI bill.  His wife's family came from the Island of Carpathos in Greece,
settled in the Charleston area and worked in the mines as well.  (Things
must have been bad on that island!)  So I live with someone who is half Greek
and all Appalachian.  
> 
>3) What do you like best about the Appalachian region, either specific to one
>location or generally?
The good things about remoteness and isolation.  What traditional culture there
is left--fiddle music, Old Harp singing, crafts and storytelling.  In some
areas, the absence of any visible signs of commercial culture.  Profoundly
eccentric people who couldn't exist anywhere else.
> 
>4) What do you like least about the Appalachian region, either specific to one
>location or generally?
The bad things about isolation.  Vulnerability to exploitation, destructive
superstition, poverty, the brain drain.  Strip mines and chemical pollution.
Creeks full of trash.  


Toby Koosman
University of Tennessee   Knoxville, Tennessee  USA
Internet: koosman@utkvx.utk.edu     Bitnet: koosman@utkvx
Newsgroups: alt.appalachian
From: sally@nevada.edu (SALLY PHARES)
Subject: civil war stories
Originator: sally@helios.nevada.edu
Organization: University of Nevada System Computing Services
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 17:18:36 GMT

All of these wonderful stories about the Civil War has made me very
homesick!  Yet I don't know of any family member stories to share, so I will
share some things from my home town of Beverly, WV.

The Battle of Rich Mountain took place there during the Civil War.
Much of Beverly was occupied and reoccupied first by the Union then
by the Confederates.  

There's a monument called Mt. Iser in place on the Beverly side yet
today.  You can walk the entrenchments and get a feel for the 
distance they were firing from and launching the skirmishes.  On the
Rich Mountain side, very little has been disturbed (at least last I
visited it a few years ago) and there's been very little traffic or
development around there except for timber cutting.  Yet, there's no
buildings or anything and much of the entrenchment area has filled with
silt and grown over...moreso than the Mt. Iser area.

My dad always told the story that at the foot of Rich Mountain the
soldiers buried their "pay" they had just received before going into
battle and it was never found.  Several miscellaneous coins, buttons, etc.
have been found in these two areas.  One of the most extensive collections
that I know of belongs to Hunter Lesser.

Many of the old houses that line Main Street in Beverly today were 
standing during the time of the Battle.  One of those houses now belongs
to the parents of a school friend of mine.  It's a two story, white home
that is on the north end of Beverly (as you drive through). 

The interesting thing is that the house was used as a Confederate and
a Union hospital during the battle.  The house has a secret passageway up
through the walls of what is now a dining room (very small winding stairway
inside the walls). As the town changed hands, the story goes that the
Confedrate patients that could not be moved were taken up to the "secret"
room via the passageway and left there until (hopefully) the town changed
hands again.  The rest of the house was occupied by Union patients.  Most of
the indications of hospital use have disappeared as the house has been
remodeled several times.  Yet the floor of that secret room still shows signs
of a lot of bloodstains...ie. sanding and painting doesn't completely cover
them to this day.

Another house that is no longer standing but was located where the 
Ashland Gas station is now, was a two story log house with a front
porch across the front.  It belonged to my Grandmother Phares's family a
bit later.  We have boxes of mini-balls and shells that were supposedly
dug out of the large log rails on the front porch.  The house was 
situated just to the south of the line of fire...thus catching some
fire!  I've always imagined the family sitting in rocking chairs on
the front porch and when they got bored or something caught their eye
in one of the logs, they took out a knife or other implement and spent
some time digging out the mini-balls!

Thanks to all for sharing your stories and allowing me to ramble!....
From: bh419@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ted B Samsel)
Newsgroups: alt.appalachian
Subject: Re: civil war connections
Date: 8 Sep 1992 17:48:40 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


On my mom's side we were all  Secessionists. After Sherman burned 
the family out we took up with Cherokee relatives in Talequah, the
Cherokee Capitol in what is now Oklahoma. These were the 
Bushyheads.
  On my dad's side, the family (wisely) left Missouri for Idaho
in late 1860 and avoided much of the travails of the War in the
West.
-- 
Ted....
From: Fred.Homan@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Fred Homan)
Newsgroups: alt.appalachian
Subject: Re: Alt.Appalachian User Poll
Date: 11 Sep 92 16:45:07 GMT
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service

In article <9209081549.AA17791@news.cis.ohio-state.edu> FURRJK@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu writes:

>1) Where were you born and/or raised?  Outside Appalachia, or if you were born
>and/or raised in Appalachia, where?

	Born in Huntington, WV.  Raised (after age 4) in Beckley, WV.

>2) Where are you presently living?  Outside Appalachia, or if you are
>presently living in Appalachia, where?

	Blacksburg, VA

>3) What do you like best about the Appalachian region, either specific to one
>location or generally?

	Beautiful country, little crime, slower way of life, no great air
pollution, and friendly people.

>4) What do you like least about the Appalachian region, either specific to one
>location or generally?

	Closed-minded people and bigotry, remoteness (at times), and little
chance of economic opportunity (in WV, at least)

Fred Op

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Newsgroups: alt.appalachian
From: csjan@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Jan Faires)
Subject: Civil War Story
Organization: Educational Computing Network
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 18:39:46 GMT

The story is told in our family of gguncle Isaac Davis, who fought for
the North in the border area of Kentucky.  He was a BIIIIIIGG man, over
300 lbs, and the army didn't have a uniform to fit him, so he wore a
pair of bib overalls.  Needless to say, he had trouble keeping up with
the rest of his unit, expecially when they were in a hurry.  In one
skirmish his unit was in retreat, with the Rebels close behind, when
Uncle Isaac's wind gave out.  He hid his rifle under some leaves, sat
down on a log and huffed and puffed and waited to see what was to become
of him. 

The Rebel troops soon arrived, in pursuit of the fleeing unit.  When
they asked him what he was doing, Uncle Isaac said, "I'm jist settin'
here on this log, watching them damn Yankees run!"  He survived the war,
and I have the pocket sized Bible he carried.
From: wlnewma@turing.mitre.org (Bill Newman)
Subject: Re: Alt.Appalachian User Poll
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 14:43:17 GMT

In article <9209081549.AA17791@news.cis.ohio-state.edu>, FURRJK@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu writes:
> 
> Listen up!  It's the alt.appalachian user poll!
> 
> Please answer the following questions, and post your responses to the net
> (don't mail them to me, post them to alt.appalachian for all to read!):
> 
> 1) Where were you born and/or raised?  Outside Appalachia, or if you were born
> and/or raised in Appalachia, where?

Lexington, KY
> 
> 2) Where are you presently living?  Outside Appalachia, or if you are
> presently living in Appalachia, where?

Laurel, MD (between Baltimore and D.C.)
>
> 3) What do you like best about the Appalachian region, either specific to one
> location or generally?
>
The beautiful countryside, little windy roads through little towns, the music,
the culture, the friendly people 
> 4) What do you like least about the Appalachian region, either specific to one
> location or generally?

The exploitation of the natural resources and people over the years, the staggering poverty in many areas, the staggering ignorance of otherwise intelligent (non-Appalachian) people that Appalachia is populated by hillbillies and white trash.
> 
> I look forward to reading your responses.  Please be creative!
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Joel Furr                                                   jfurr@vtvm1.vt.edu
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                            alt.appalachian -- try it!
From: ai065@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Thomas Hill)
Newsgroups: alt.appalachian
Subject: NOTICE:"Bigfoot/Sasquatch" Sightings Request
Date: 14 Sep 1992 02:23:36 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc10.ins.cwru.edu


   Our research group is currently investigating reports and sightings of the
animal known as "Bigfoot" or "Sasquatch". If you or somebody you know has had
such a sighting, or come across what may be evidence supporting the existance
of such an animal, please get in contact with us in one of the following
formats:
 
o Leave a private message in electronic mail.
o Call Thomas Hill at 216-362-6529.
o Or write:
 
  Thomas E. Hill
  16124 Richard Dr.
  Brook Park, OH 44142
 
 Contact with us can be totally anonymous if you wish. We are especially
interested in Ohio sightings but are by no means limited to investigations in
that state. Please, serious responses only.
-- 
"A large creature about 7 1/2 to 8 foot tall. It was greyish black in color,
and as it went away from me I seen the backside of it walking as a man would
walk on it's hind legs."- Former Sheriff Oliver Potter, Vancouver, Washington
The Cryptozoology Information Network. Want on our Email mailing list? Amiga!
From: bh419@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ted B Samsel)
Newsgroups: alt.appalachian
Subject: Re: Alt.Appalachian User Poll
Date: 8 Sep 1992 17:35:57 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


Response to alt.appalachia poll
1. Texas
2. Richmond, VA. (Close but no cigar)
3. Caves
4. DC urban types looking for "outdoor adventure activities" usually
wearing lurid Spandex or PC pastels.
-- 
Ted....
Newsgroups: alt.appalachian
From: steven@syacus.acus.oz.au (Steven Malikoff)
Subject: Re: Alt.Appalachian User Poll
Organization: ACUS Australian Centre for Unisys Software, Sydney
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 00:08:57 GMT

I have absolutely *no* connection to the location this group deals with.
However, I *am* interested in outdoor stuff, especially in foreign countries
such as America (both the north and south ones). So, here's my response:

 1) Where were you born and/or raised?  Outside Appalachia, or if you were born
 and/or raised in Appalachia, where?
Raised in Sydney, Australia. (Outside Appalachia, USA).
 
2) Where are you presently living? ....Sydney.
 
3) What do you like best about the Appalachian region?
Well, it's about as far away a place as I can think of. From what I read here,
it'd be a nice place for camping.
 
4) What do you like least about the Appalachian region?
It's in the US... :-(. ....Someone send me a plane ticket, quick!

Steve Malikoff.
steven@syacus.acus.oz.au
Newsgroups: alt.appalachian
From: rlw@IDA.ORG (Richard Wexelblat)
Subject: Re: Alt.Appalachian User Poll
Organization: IDA, Alexandria, VA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 14:08:04 GMT

steven@syacus.acus.oz.au (Steven Malikoff) writes:
: 1) Where were you born and/or raised?  Outside Appalachia, or if you were born
:  and/or raised in Appalachia, where?
Philadelphia
  
: 2) Where are you presently living? 
Alexandria VA -- actually that's where I'm now living.  I have no idea
where I will be living presently (look it up!) but an seriously thinking
of looking in the Blacksburg VA area.

: 3) What do you like best about the Appalachian region?
Everything, especially the woods, trees, etc...

: 4) What do you like least about the Appalachian region?
Insularity of the natives.
-- 
--Dick Wexelblat  (rlw@ida.org) 703 845 6601
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  in any context, at any time, with or without attribution.
  Quotes out of context and parodies are encouraged.
Newsgroups: alt.skate-board
From: dfx@nuchat.sccsi.com (dFx International Digest)
Subject: Quick Review : New 101 Video
Organization: Houston Public Access UNIX
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 02:53:42 GMT


 This will have to be a sort of "mini-review" as this video is only 
 10 minutes long.

 Needless to say, both the video and skating quality are excellent. Fab 
 choice of wacky tunez also.

 I'm only going to list a few tricks per part so that I don't ruin the 
 whole thing for you.

 Adam McNatt : Nollie double heelflip. 
               Reverse backside heelflip 180 down 4 stairs.
               Backside heelflip 180 down 4 stairs to reverse kickflip.

 Leigh Peterson : Fakie backside 180 backfoot kickflip.
                  Nosegrind/noseslide to 360 frontside shove-it.
                  
 Eric Koston : Noselslide on big Embarcaderro stairside to backside 180.
               Nollie 180 kickflip to manual to shove-it.
               Backside 180 kickflip over gap to fakie nose manual.
               12 foot backside noseslide.
               Backside 360 nollie delay toeflip.

 Gabriel Rodriguez : Backside 360 - 360 boardflip.
                     Ollie varial to backside delay body varial.

 Kris Markovich : (Everything super-fast and huge. Lots of double flips, etc)
                  Reverse backside 180 backfoot flip.
                  Backside 180 heelflip over a huge gap.

 The end.


 All of these tricks were possible due to small wheels, so please put the
 "marketing gimmick" tale to rest. Nollie flips really aren't possible with
 75mm Road WarriorZ.


  
Newsgroups: alt.skate-board
From: byron@athena.mit.edu (Jack Miller)
Subject: Re: Blue balls vs. Buffered Tablets
Organization: SKaters At Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 19:38:01 GMT

In article <1992Sep14.031953.18072@nuchat.sccsi.com> dfx@nuchat.sccsi.com (dFx International Digest) writes:
>
> And as long as I am here..  Hey Jack (Halloween that is) - what's up with
> the Rodney tape?
>
	Well, let's ask Juggle, who took the footage with his own
camcorder and owns the tape-- Hey Juggle, what's up with the Rodney
tape?

	By the way, Rodney said he'd try to swing through again next
month, in which case we'd get better footage.  Last time we were too
psyched just to be hanging out with him to want to bother him with
pictures and footage and stuff...  Shame, too, in a way, because the
stuff he did outside the MIT Medical Center at 2AM was pretty hairy.
He never DID land the railslide through the curved bench, tho...
Marty did (yea Marty).  I have a feeling if Rodney does come back,
he'll be psyched to land that railslide...

					--Halloween Jack.
From: jice@echo.asd.sgi.com (John Eisenman)
Newsgroups: alt.skate-board
Subject: Re: Old Skate Mag
Keywords: Action Now Skate Mag
Date: 9 Sep 92 21:52:21 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

In article <qjpexa9@Unify.Com>, gmg@unify.com (Gary M. Gealy) writes:
|> Hello,
|> 	There was a magazine called 'Action Now' published in the early
|> 80's.    It featured articles on
|> skating, bmx, bodyboarding etc...  Anyone know who the publisher
|> was and even better how to get in contact
|> with them.  
|> -- 

SkateBoarder Magazine became Action Now in '81 or so.  I had a subscription
to SkateBoarder and after a while, I started receiving Action Now instead.
I think that they also had a cable tv show for a while.  I think the 
publisher was some how related to Surfer magazine.  I used to have a
whole pile of Action Now magazines, but I chucked them about 5 years
ago -- I still have some SkateBoarder and SkateBoarding Magazines from
'77 and '78.

--
John Eisenman (jice@sgi.com)

Silicon Graphics Computer Systems
7U-550
2011 N. Shoreline Blvd.		
P.O. Box 7311		
Mt. View, CA 94039-7311		

(415) 390-1551
From: pwwisnes@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Paul W. Wisneskey)
Newsgroups: alt.skate-board
Subject: Re: Pipes/Parks/etc.
Date: 11 Sep 92 22:48:56 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA

Give me the benifit of the doubt - I hate YUPPIE bladers as well.  I'm a
hard core skater who chose to express his fustration on blades instead of a
board.  I try to be as extreme as a blader  can get - front flips off jump
ramps are the latest.  Until I lost my half pipe I daresay I could hold my
own with skaters.  I admit that riding a pipe on a board is more difficult
that blades though at least you guys can bail on to your feet.  I
definitely do not want to be in the yuppie blader category though the rest
of the world is....

Paul
Damage Inc. Skate Team
Newsgroups: alt.skate-board
From: joshr@kronos.arc.nasa.gov (Joshua Rabinowitz-Summer-91)
Subject: Re: FAQ needed: directory of skate parks/ramps/skate spots
Organization: NASA/ARC Information Sciences Division
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 20:17:25 GMT

In article <1992Sep4.232652.2046@uc.msc.edu> eab@msc.edu (Edward Bertsch) writes:
>
>It occurs to me that we need to ennumerate the various skate parks,
>non-private ramps, and assorted skate spots that travelling or
>relocating (or just in the dark!) skaters would like to know about.
>I'd be glad to be the repository for such information, and would
>be willing to post it on a monthly basis.  Feel free to write up what
>you know, preceeded by Country, State/Region, City, and Name of spot
>
>
>example entry
>
>USA, Minnesota, Minneapolis, Skate Oasis
>24' wide 12' high half pipe, peanut shaped 6' high bowl, 4' mini ramp.
>1/4 block South of Lake Street on 12th.  Roughly between Cedar and Chicago
>on Lake Street.  Phone: 612/724-0587.  Hours: M-F 4pm-9pm, Sat-Sun: 12pm-9pm.
>Costs $2/hr for non-members, $1/hr for members (rough rates).  Helmet and
>pad rental available, some equipment sales: boards, wheels, trucks, stickers,
>etc.   Rollerbladers, BMXers, and Skateboarders welcome.  Open year round
>(is in a warehouse)
>
>--
Right, here's an obvious entry:

USA, Santa Cruz, CA, Derby Park
75' long, 4' high snake run, rounded edge, no coping.  Empties
into 20' wide, 5' deep bowl with mild, gridable/slidable hip
(see isreal forbes mondo-ollie in tws), and on other end,
3' deep, small trianlge bowl.  Near Natural Brigdes State Park, take
WestCliff Dr. to Auburn and park at corner of Auburn and Woodland.
All welcome, though non-skaters may recieve some vibes, esp. at
heavy skate sessions.
No phone.   Hours: dawn (yeh, right) to dusk. No rules or fees.


Went to the SF pro finals yesterday, wade speyer rips.
HUGE 360 melon from spine to volcanoe: you'll probably see it soon
in some mag. If not, take my word for it.

Also, nicky guerrero had a flawless run in the finals.  COmpletely
clean.  

Check late.
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