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  • 5 Things,  Photos/Video

    5 THINGS | 1 Painting; 1 Bridge; 1 Hospital; 1 Poster & 1 Sign

    October 12, 2020 /

    What do the New River Gorge Bridge, Cabell Huntington Hospital, a GOTV poster, Pepperoni Rolls, and one painting have in common?

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  • Photos/Video,  Stories

    Subscribe to the free newsletter of WestVirginiaVille.com

    October 12, 2020 /

    If you didn't get in your e-mail yesterday (Monday, Oct. 12, 2020) the latest WestVirginiaVille.com free newsletter, then you're not subscribed. And will never learn of our gloriously variegated content (and the fact we use words like 'variegated'). Subscribe at: westvirginiaville.substack.com.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Photos/Video,  Stories,  The Past

    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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  • Glickster's Picks,  NatureGram,  Stories

    How to Create Your Own West Virginia Woodland Paradise

    September 25, 2020 /

    Even if you’re a “Townie” on a small city lot and don’t have acres to play with, you can still create an “island” of forest to enjoy. All you need is a little shade or dappled sunlight.

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  • Multimedia Production,  Music,  Originals,  Photos/Video,  Songs,  Stories

    “LAY THAT BURDEN DOWN”: A Musical Homage to John Lewis, Sung by Lady D

    September 24, 2020 /

    Check out the world premiere of the music video of the Ron Sowell/Jon Wikstrom song "Lay Down That Burden," sung by Lady D and inspired by the life, courage, and heart of John Lewis, whose exampe is ever more needed now in America.

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  • Music,  Photos/Video,  Poetics

    VIDEO/POEM: A Brief Visit to “Magic Mountain” in West Virginia

    September 23, 2020 /

    What happened one night on Folklife Mountain in the West Virginia heartland. Some called it Magic Mountain.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Photos/Video

    VIDEO: “Say Their Names”

    August 30, 2020 /

    There are a lot of names of black people, killed by police officers on this list. Below are all the names on the list. Some famous, a few historic. All of them individuals who were loved, who had dreams. Who, like you and I—had issues and challenges, joys and loves. Trying to figure out life, in all its messiness and pain.

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  • Originals,  Photos/Video,  Stories

    ORIGINALS | “THE BALLAD of KYLE T. MaGATT: About a Deplorable Fellow in a Little Red Hat”

    August 27, 2020 /

    "My emotional core for the entire cartoon is that no matter how frustrated, angry, and exhausted I am by the Kyle MaGatts (and Karens) of this country, I don't want them to die. Especially not because of a preventable virus. Not alone. For nothing."

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    CHARACTERS: A Portrait of the Artist in Her Garden

    August 20, 2020 /

    Sassa Wilkes paints every day. Now, she is painting in a different fashion, using the Earth as a palette. A portrait of a West Virginia artist growing things in a big way for the first time, thanks to Covid-19.

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  • Artifacts,  Photos/Video,  Poetics,  Stories

    READINGS | “Nous Celeron”

    August 14, 2020 /

    'Don’t you, Nous Céleron, wish to lay down your arms? Enter the Ohio’s cool darkness, or the Chinodahichetha! Sounding out each syllable as a Wyandotte might utter them ...

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  • Photos/Video,  Poetics,  Readings,  Stories

    READINGS | Two by Kiley Lee

    August 9, 2020 /

    Twitter can be a whirlwind of woe. It can also be a place of discovery, of encountering creatives working in West Virginia whose work is worth checking out and lifting up. Here are two poems and two photographs by Kiley Lee, of Paden City WV.

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  • Photos/Video,  Stories,  The Past

    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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  • 5 Pictures,  Photos/Video,  Stories

    5 THINGS | 1 Root Beer; 1 Comet; 1 Peach Porn; 1 Kitty; 1 Nixon

    August 3, 2020 /

    In a new installment of '5 Things,' we eyeball the return of revolving root beer; the New River Gorge Bridge posing with a comet; some fresh produce peach porn; a kombucha-kitty watercolor; and where you can find Richard Nixon in West Virginia.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Photos/Video,  Stories

    VIDEO: Pulitzer Prize-winner Joins West Virginia Investigative Non-Profit

    July 28, 2020 /

    Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Eric Eyre will be joining the investigative staff of the new West Virginia non-profit watchdog outfit Mountain State Spotlight.

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  • Art,  Artifacts,  Characters,  Stories

    CHARACTERS | Recalling Stick Artist-Poet-Philosopher-Shaman Boyd Carr

    July 26, 2020 /

    Boyd Carr, who died at age 88 this summer, was many things. West Virginia-based poet Kirk Judd recalls a man he describes as "one of the few true geniuses I have known. He was brilliant in his use of language and in the art of storytelling."

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  • Art,  Photos/Video,  Stories

    A Portrait of the Artist in Her Studio & Out: Jes Reger

    July 24, 2020 /

    Jes Reger is an accomplished watercolorist based in Wheeling WV. In the first of a series of profiles of Tamarack for the Arts 2020 Emerging Artist fellows, she talks about the challenges of being a working painter during a global pandemic.

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  • 5 Questions,  NewsoftheDay,  Photos/Video,  Q-and-A,  Stories

    5 QUESTIONS: When Life Hands You Quarantine, You Make a Web Series Out of It

    July 23, 2020 /

    Curren Sheldon and Tijah Bumgarner are the wizards behind the extremely entertaining web series, "Quarantine Life," which asks—and answers—the question: What do two mondo-talented West Virginia filmmakers do during a global pandemic that has locked down the usual creative projects into which they had been pouring their life force?

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  • Photos/Video,  Roadtripping

    ROADTRIPPING: “Ohio Rover” Homage to a Bridge

    July 22, 2020 /

    Needing to get out of Quarantine Dodge this week, we took a roadtrip out of the Mountain State and up the Ohio River, passing the stately suspension tie bridge between West Virginia and Ohio. Here's a jazzy, one-minute musical homage, which commences WestVirginiaVille's "Roadtripping" video series.

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  • 5 Pictures,  5 Things,  Photos/Video,  Stories,  Urban Appalachia

    5 THINGS | 1 Bridge, 1 Motorcycle, 1 Queen, 1 Mask & 1 Batman

    July 19, 2020 /

    Here are 5 images from the life, times and artistry of WestVirginiaVille, by staff and contributors. Including a drive-by Batman, a misty West Virginia icon and more.

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  • Characters,  Photos/Video,  Stories,  Urban Appalachia

    VIDEO: Not Your Average Ice Cream Truck Story

    July 17, 2020 /

    The tinkling sound of a new ice cream truck cruising the streets and cul-de-sacs of Cabell County, West Virginia, has a quite remarkable story behind it by a quite remarkable mother and son.

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