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    When Socialist presidential candidate Eugene Debs was sent to Moundsville Prison for making a speech

    October 1, 2021 /

    The story of how Socialist firebrand Eugene Debs once landed in the state penitentiary in Moundsville WV illustrates "how easy it is for Americans to vilify their own citizens and, when seized by fear or fashion, step on each other’s rights," says John W. Miller in this reprint from the Moundsville Blog.

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  • Characters,  Stories,  The Past

    BACK/THEN: On the Bad Streets of Ann Magnuson’s Charleston Upbringing

    August 4, 2021 /

    West Virginia native Ann Magnuson is an American actress and performance artist who was also once a girl growing up on the streets of Charleston, WV. Here's a short recollection of the the city's "bad" street from her girlhood.

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  • Poetics,  Stories,  The Past

    POEM: “Haymaking”

    February 20, 2021 /

    We cut, rake, and bale / till the sun goes down and the dew settles on the fields, / then start again next morning once the dew burns off ...

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    VIDEO: Other ways of looking at a Mail Pouch barn

    February 16, 2021 /

    Mail Pouch barn signs became such an iconic, familiar image, showcased in tens of thousands of similarly framed snapshots, postcards, and saturated photographs that they are almost impossible to see afresh. We give it a go in "Chew This Way."

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  • Stories,  The Past

    BLACK HISTORY 2: ‘Rosa Parks’ feet did not hurt’

    February 7, 2021 /

    The actual story of the stalwart moment Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of an Alabama bus in 1955 was far more powerful than a supposed frail, tired old Black lady sitting where she shouldn't.

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  • Books,  Stories,  The Past

    BOOK REVIEW: The True Story of West Virginia’s (Bourgeois) Revolution and Birth

    February 3, 2021 /

    The birth of West Virginia was more complex than the usual telling that it was born as a result of the Civil War. Industrial and labor forces were in play well before the war that would lead to a breakaway state carved out of western Virginia—with key support from Abe Lincoln, write the authors of the new book "Seceding from Secession."

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    ARCHIVES: Revisiting West Virginia’s Connection to “Gilligan’s Island”

    January 1, 2021 /

    The death from COVID of the actress who played Mary Ann on "Gilligan's Island" is another sad pandemic casualty. Her passing is an occasion to recall the connection West Virginia has to the iconic television show from the 1960s.

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    EDITORIAL: “The Silent Senator Capito,” A Justice Project Video

    October 18, 2020 /

    Waiting on WV Senator Shelley Moore Capito to do the right thing—not just mouth the right thing—you might notice your hair turn another color and not from hair dye. So, WestVirginiaVille points its second Justice Project editorial video her way.

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    MINI-DOC | “What’s In a Name?” The Deeper Story Behind a WV Confederate Legacy

    October 8, 2020 /

    The removal of a Confederate general's name from the former Stonewall Jackson Middle School in West Virginia's capital city this Summer was more than just a cosmetic change. In 2020, America confronted the wounds that have haunted the country’s existence. The renaming of the school laid bare that history.

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    GUEST POST: The Not-So-Natural Gas Boom

    August 10, 2020 /

    Natural gas and the fracking boom have changed the landscape, politics and economics of West Virginia. Sean O'Leary of the Ohio River Valley Institute addresses the claims of "a veritable rock star proponent of 'the natural gas economy.' And finds all nine of his "irrefutable energy truths,” in fact, quite refutable.

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    A WestVirginiaVille.com Reader | aug3.2020

    August 6, 2020 /

    If you have not yet subscribed to WestVirginiaVille's free e-mail newsletter, please do so at this link: westvirginiaville.substack.com. Here is our most recent newsletter of aug3.2020.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Photos/Video,  Stories,  The Past

    TRAILER: A Peek at “Bye-Bye, Stonewall” mini-doc

    July 15, 2020 /

    Here's a peek from the trailer to WestVirginiaVille's upcoming mini-documentary, "Bye-Bye, Stonewall," on the years-long backstory on how a school in a black neighborhood in West Virginia's capital city finally got free of Confederate general Stonewall Jackson's name and mug.

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    READINGS | A Stroll Deep into a West Virginia Marsh

    July 10, 2020 /

    If it’s true we are mother, father, sister, brother, related all to all, maybe that's one way to comprehend and befriend the ten thousand things. The hundreds of voices, cries, and songs rising from this manifold marsh.

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  • Characters,  Stories,  The Past

    CHARACTERS | The One-Armed Bandit of No. 1 Holler, West Virginia

    June 27, 2020 /

    The life story of the "The One-Armed Bandit" is the stuff of heroes and legends. You may not know Gary Mays' tale, though, as the major league career the West Virginia native might have had may have been blocked by racism. But nothing ever kept Gary Mays down for long.

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  • Readings,  Stories,  The Past

    READINGS | Ruminations of a Coal Miner’s Ex-wife

    June 25, 2020 /

    "Living here in Southern WV is very much like not being able to see the forest for the trees. So much of what went wrong in my marriage went wrong because my then-husband was being exploited and made to think that he had the good life. No—he was made to think he had the best life. He couldn’t say no."

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  • Points of View,  Stories,  The Future,  The Past

    POINTS of VIEW: ‘What Is Their Cause, Has to be My Cause’

    June 23, 2020 /

    Suddenly, what is of importance only to people of color is now of utmost of importance to this person of white privilege. ~ Rabbi Victor Urecki

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  • Stories,  The Past

    Prehistoric W.Va. was not an uninhabited hunting ground

    June 20, 2020 /

    You don't have to live long in West Virginia before you hear that the land used to be a "hunting ground" for Native Americans. The actual history is more vibrant and complex, as the region was more likely "an Interaction Zone" or melting pot of native ethnicities, languages, and technology.

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  • Characters,  The Past

    DON WEST | Part 2: “May It Be So”

    June 6, 2020 /

    Long before it became fashionable, Don West fought the passive hillbilly stereotype by pointing to mountain labor’s traditions of struggle and solidarity.

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  • 5 Questions,  Characters,  Q-and-A,  Stories,  The Past

    DON WEST | Part 1: Not An Easy Path

    June 6, 2020 /

    Don West was not a warm and fuzzy person or "a creator of comfort. He was a ceator of action." It could be uncomfortable, but the labor activist and poet left a legacy to be explored in a WVPB documentary that debuts Sunday, June 7, 2020

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  • Readings,  Stories,  The Past

    HAPPY MOONSHINE DAY |Part 2: “The Plum”

    June 5, 2020 /

    We call it The Plum. It’s the prettiest moonshine we make. The shine is made from my PawPaw’s PawPaw’s recipe in a copper still just like it was a hundred years ago. In each jar, we put 13 sweet plums from the trees my great-aunt planted after the ’37 flood...

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