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  • Climate,  Music/Video,  Nature,  Stories

    CLIMATE/CRISIS: Taking the measure of climate change in three short videos

    November 4, 2021 /

    In three short videos, take the measure of climate change. The climate crisis deepens every day, yet more and more people planet-wide awaken daily to the reality of what must be done to turn down the fever threatening the planet.

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  • Art,  Essay,  Picture/Show,  Stories

    PICTURE/SHOW: 36 Ways of Looking at Thomas WV

    September 10, 2021 /

    Thomas, West Virginia, is a bump in the road several thousand feet up in the mountain air. With a storied past, small-town European feel, and humming creative scene it's a special place in the hills. A photographic encounter.

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  • Nature,  Poetics,  Readings

    READINGS: Three from “Corona Time Capsule”

    September 10, 2021 /

    'Feed Them on Peaches,' 'Grass Fire,' and '¡Ya Basta!' — three excerpts of poetry and prose from poet James Cochran's forthcoming book "Corona Time Capsule."

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  • Climate,  Nature,  Photos/Video

    VIDEO: Getting Kids Talking About Climate Change

    September 10, 2021 /

    The best time to address the growing crisis of global climate change was yesterday. The next best time is today. But how to get kids themselves talking about climate change? Here is a video than can help.

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  • Climate,  Nature,  Photos/Video,  Stories

    VIDEOS: The Pillars of the WV Climate Alliance

    August 4, 2021 /

    The West Virginia Climate Alliance is a coalition of nearly 20 West Virginia-based environmental organizations, faith-based, civil rights and civic groups with a focus on climate change. This short video describes the three pillars that drive Climate Alliance efforts to address "the most important and essential work of these times."

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  • Art,  Picture/Show,  Stories

    ART/WORK: Sharon Lynn and the Path Taken

    August 4, 2021 /

    How do the paths we choose affect the choices in our lives? And where do begin the path? A new series of works by West Virginia artist Sharon Lyn looks at the first steps take on the paths in our lives.

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    PHOTOSHOW: A high-up visit to Robert Singleton’s West Virginia studio

    July 6, 2021 /

    A portrait of the artist at age 84 in his sunlit West Virginia mountaintop studio. Robert Singleton is on a roll, adding another chapter to a remarkable life. Here's what he looks like at work.

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  • Photos/Video,  Picture/Show,  Stories

    PICTURE/SHOW: Kyle Vass on taking his best shot

    June 7, 2021 /

    A little over a year into his work doing audio journalism, Kyle Vass realized every story, regardless of what medium it's being told through, needs pictures. Here's what happened next.

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    MUSIC/VIDEO: “Sonata for Piano & West Virginia, No. 1”

    June 7, 2021 /

    We invite you to take five minutes from feeling harassed by the news or our own hectic heads for "Sonata for Piano & West Virginia No. 1." It offers another way of looking at West Virginia and those parts that remain uncorrupted, fresh, and true.

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  • Music,  Photos/Video,  Q-and-A,  Stories

    COVERSTORY: Lady D, In Her Own Unfiltered Words

    May 5, 2021 /

    You might say Doris A. Fields, better known as Lady D, is having a well-deserved moment. Several, actually. We check in with one of West Virginia's finest singer-songwriters on the occasion of the release of her new CD, the heat-seeking "Disturbing My Peace."

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    ART/WORK: A video gaze at new work by Sharon Lyn

    May 5, 2021 /

    You wouldn't think Twitter would be a place to watch an artist's development. But that would be the case with West Virginia artist Sharon Lyn. Here's a video of some of her striking newest work.

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    SHORT/STORY: ‘I can see clearly now’

    May 5, 2021 /

    What happened one day out near the Beautiful River while I was pondering whether my father's was right when he got angry and said: 'People are no damn good!'

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  • Artifacts,  Photos/Video,  Stories

    ARTIFACTS

    May 5, 2021 /

    In the debut of 'ARTIFACTS,' an occasional, fluffy feature showcasing oddball ephemera with a West Virginia connection, we explore the intersections of David Bowie. "I Dream of Jeannie" and Chuck Yeager.

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  • Characters,  Photos/Video

    COVERSTORY: CHARACTERS: “When Earl Went to War”

    April 17, 2021 /

    American men of Earl Goodall's generation are famously not forthcoming about their psychological states or what it's like to go to war, people dying in front of and beside you. But this Korean War vet communicates all you need to know about that 'Forgotten War.'

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Photos/Video,  Stories

    SOCIAL/MEDIA: Recalling a life ended too soon in WV’s capital city

    April 10, 2021 /

    The shooting death of an 18-year-old student-athlete killed April 7, cast a pall over West Virginia's capital city, as yet more senseless gun violence robbed a family and community of a bright light.

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  • Editorial,  Nature,  Photos/Video,  Stories

    PHOTO/EDITORIAL: Springtime for a Supermajority in W.Va.

    March 29, 2021 /

    The desire to bust out of a politically benighted, often colonially run, and depressed-in-every-which-way state has a long and storied past. Where I am right now on the 'fight/flight/freeze' syndrome that comes with living in West Virginia.

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  • Nature,  Photos/Video,  Stories

    NATUREGRAM: Cleanup needed at the Huntington Museum of Art trail

    March 20, 2021 /

    I normally post photographs and videos of Nature in all its solitudinous glory, when sickened by social media junk food and needing more wholesome nourishment. But our dear Mother is not always picture postcard perfect when we seek her aid.

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    NATUREGRAM: Two minutes of nothing but pines, plus some calming music

    March 13, 2021 /

    We can't share with you the sweet aroma of a stand of pine trees in Putnam County, West Virginia. But we can share with you the experience of standing among them. A new WestVirginiiaVille shelter-in-nature short video.

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    BE THE CHANGE: The Tale of A Song and Its Two Songwriters

    March 4, 2021 /

    The COVERSTORY for our March 2021 edition is a twofer: Watch the debut of an original WestVirginiaVille music video of "Be the Change" — and hear songwriters Ron Sowell and Jon Wikstrom talk about the roots of their song and their long songwriting comradeship.

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    PHOTOSHOW: A warehouse after the workers have gone

    March 3, 2021 /

    What is it about abandoned industrial spaces that make them so compelling to the inquiring eye? Maybe it's the forlorn, yet intriguing glimpse of past workaday lives — the lunches, the labors, the left-behind tools and flotsam of work — in a place now emptied of human activity.

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