Minor organizations: The Things in Appalachia¶
Minor organizations of The Things in Appalachia: the agencies, businesses, committees and loose groups that do not have pages of their own.
ATF¶
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is the last federal presence the Dahlonega locals remember. Edward Nick Sr. tells the team that the previous feds in the area were ATF agents after moonshiners. The agency is only mentioned. (Appalachia 02)
Dahlonega Times¶
The Dahlonega Times is the local paper that printed the grainy, Patterson-Gimlin-style Bigfoot photograph in the case dossier, with a Bill Clinton campaign story below the fold. Huell judges the photo blurry enough to be a man in an ape suit. The photo is credited to Charlie Briggs. Auraria has its own paper, the Gold Bug. (Appalachia 01, Appalachia 02)
Dental Oncologists' Conference¶
A conference of dental oncologists fills the Smith Hotel when the team arrives, leaving only two rooms, and Kurt comes to believe the dentists follow the team from hotel to hotel. One guest is caught digging through the scrambled eggs with his bare hands at breakfast, and Andrew jokes that they may be "the Bigfoot perverts." Dentists fill the hotels in other arcs too, making this one of the show's running gags. See the Smith Hotel. (Appalachia 01, Appalachia 02, Appalachia 03)
EPA and NRC¶
After Marblehead, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission clean up the radiological mess left by the sea creature and the Davy Crockett device. They hold the team's car and equipment, and the team is left driving a 1991 Ford Explorer. (Appalachia 01)
Gold Bug¶
The Gold Bug is a small newspaper with a storefront in Auraria, framed front pages in its window. It ran the Bigfoot photos by contract photographer Derek Edwards, who runs its website and hunting-blind cameras. An older, pinched employee shows Kurt Derek's number in a Rolodex. (Appalachia 06)
House Subcommittee¶
A House subcommittee investigating the Marblehead incident takes Kurt's testimony on October 3, 1992. Its chairman, Congressman Bradley, asks about the worms and the church leaders who died of infection. Big Bill has two of his questions struck. (Appalachia 01)
Jackson and Lee's¶
Jackson and Lee's is the law firm named on the eviction letters that the "corporate goons" gave the Covenant. The letters name only the firm, not its client, so the party never learns who wants the Auraria land. Kurt says he will put out feelers about the firm. See also The Land Dispute. (Appalachia 04)
Jeep Hunters¶
Monica Cartwright reports drunk, out-of-season hunters in gray jumpsuits and sunglasses, driving a Jeep with a big cage and shotguns, who were around before her son Gene vanished. They are never traced. See Monica Cartwright. (Appalachia 04)
Late Night with David Letterman¶
The talk show on which the Biz appears after the Clinton surveillance scandal. The in-fiction broadcast opens The Walkers in Skin as a cold open, billing Gary Oldman, Patti Smith and "the most hated cop in America." See David Letterman. (Walkers 01)
Secret Service¶
The Secret Service is the protective detail of candidate Bill Clinton. In Appalachia 06 a state police officer says the Secret Service will want to see the night-vision headset found in the hotel bushes; in Appalachia 07 the sheriff relays that they tipped the state police off to surveillance gear whose fingerprints matched an FBI employee. See the Clinton Surveillance Scandal. (Appalachia 06, Appalachia 07)
Underground Gold Mine Tours¶
Underground Gold Mine Tours is a local tour operator whose Vietnam-surplus flatbed, topped with a terrifying prospector dummy, sits outside the Nicks' trailer park. Andrew wants to take the tour. The Consolidated Gold Mine later has a similar animatronic prospector outside. See Consolidated Gold Mine. (Appalachia 02)