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    Subscribe to the free newsletter of WestVirginiaVille.com

    February 4, 2021 /

    Subscribe to our free, twice-monthly newsletter to learn of our gloriously variegated content (and the fact we use words like 'variegated'). Subscribe at: westvirginiaville.substack.com.

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    THE FEMALE GAZE: How a West Virginia Artist Captured 100 Badass Women

    February 3, 2021 /

    Overwhelmed by the headlines, by Donald Trump, a pandemic and winter coming, West Virginia artist Sassa Wilkes couldn't get herself to her easel. Then, RBG died and Sassa found she wished to get to know the legal legend by painting her portrait. She kept on going with 99 more portraits of badass women.

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    VIDEO: A Sky-high View of the New River Gorge Bridge

    January 30, 2021 /

    The New River Gorge Bridge is one of West Virginia's most iconic landmarks. But have you ever seen it from an eagle's eye view—or maybe an Olympian god's?

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    NATUREGRAM: January Stroll Under an Azure Sky

    January 14, 2021 /

    The dried out, frosty marshlands are not really absent of life and color. You just have to hang out and look and listen more closely as you stroll the woods and walkways beside the Ohio in western West Virginia.

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    COVID FAMILY PROJECT 1: Remain Vigilant, Plus a Recovery Tale

    January 11, 2021 /

    We launch WestVirginiaVille's year-long COVID Family Project 2021, featuring articles, videos, and audio stories from the pandemic frontlines—stories of family loss and recovery, plus people working hard to stop the rising tide of infections and death.

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    BREAKING: We Interrupt this Insurrection for David Bowie News

    January 8, 2021 /

    WestVirginiaVille marks David Bowie's 74th birthday today with news from our "Play That Funky Music" News Department. Wait—what does Bowie have to do with West Virginia?! Read and watch on.

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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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    VIDEO: 9 Ways of Looking at ‘Hallelujah”

    December 30, 2020 /

    We dip into the archives of West Virginia cultural multimedia with a 2010 video appreciation of Albert Paley's striking 198,000 monumental sculpture, "Hallelujah," in Charleston WV. Get up close-and personal with a great work of art.

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    VIDEO: When Snow Day is Christmas Day & the Day After

    December 27, 2020 /

    It's rare for Huntington, W.Va. to get snow on Christmas, much less the perfect snow for sledding. The Christmas Eve snowstorm at the end of the long, hard year of 2020 will likely remain for a long while in people's memories, as Christmas unfolded with snow, sunshine and the holiday all wrapped into one day.

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    VIDEO: The debut of “Animals in Appalachia” with “Deer Me”

    December 22, 2020 /

    In the start of a new short video series, "Animals in Appalachia" by WestVirginiaVille.com, a mother deer puts her foot down as she momentarily loses track of her two fawns.

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    VIDEO: The Artist’s Work Considered As a Moving Picture Show

    December 19, 2020 /

    Sharon Lyn Stackpole's art considered as a video: "I always had a female character in my drawings either in illustration form or comic and I'd have her acting out whatever I was also living in my drawings. For some reason, this was reassuring and helped me to feel less alone."

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    PHOTO|ESSAY: 10 ways of coping with a dreary West Virginia winter’s day

    December 17, 2020 /

    On a winter day of all-day rain and bone-chilling cold, I give up trying to Figure It All Out. Instead, I sift through my photos, crop and lightly filter them. Maybe I can find order and meaning there. Or an aesthetic distraction, which may be just as good.

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    5 QUESTIONS: John W. Miller on taking a deep dive into a small West Virginia town

    December 15, 2020 /

    Once a thriving West Virginia town whose region produced everything from cigars to classic toys like Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots, Moundsville—population 8,400 souls—looks to figure out where it goes from here. The new 2020 documentary "Moundsville" considers the town's past and present—and its future possibilities.

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    MAKEITSHORT: Three Not-the-News, Under-a-Minute Videos

    December 9, 2020 /

    Sometimes, you don't need serious. Sometimes, you need a dog, happily barking with excitement out the window of the car besides yours. Or a Japanese fire in the West Virginia outback. Or a singing Buddha bird. Here are three musical, under-a-minute videos.

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    EDITORIAL: Shelley Moore Capito Remains Missing-In-Action

    December 4, 2020 /

    It is Dec. 4—28 days after the 2020 U.S. presidential election was called for Biden/Harris. Yet WV Sen. Shelley Moore Capito has yet to formally recognize Biden as President-Elect or repudiated Donald Trump's dangerous lies about election fraud lies.

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    ATTENTION, TEACHERS: And students at home—A chance to learn more about racism

    December 2, 2020 /

    Our documentary, “WHAT’S IN A NAME: A West Virginia Community Confronts a Confederate Legacy,” will screen 7 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020 on WVPB. The documentary and resources we've gathered lay the groundwork for a better understanding and even more thoughtful discussion of the history of racism in America, and how institutional racism continues to affect our daily life.

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    PHOTO-ESSAY: Five WV Variations on the Art of Thankfulness

    November 26, 2020 /

    From horses on porches to possible sightings of Jerry Garcia in a rural marsh, here are five images from around West Virginia that spark our thankfulness. Happy Thanksgiving.

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  • Editorial,  NewsoftheDay,  Photos/Video,  Stories

    EDITORIAL: Counting Down the Days of “No Show” Capito’s Snub of Biden-Harris

    November 23, 2020 /

    You'd think by now WV Sen. Capito might look over her shoulder and recall what it feels like to have a backbone now that Trump is slowly evaporating into a disgruntled mist. Yet 15 days after the election was called for Biden-Harris, she has yet to formally congratulate them.

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    NATUREGRAM | 10 Variations on a West Virginia Ginkgo

    November 20, 2020 /

    It is an auspicious place, this former plantation and home to more than 50 slaves before West Virginia ever came to be. But on this Autumn Appalachian day, the ginkgo biloba trees recall a more illuminated present.

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    EDITORIAL | “Pills & Suits,” a Justice Project Video

    October 29, 2020 /

    In an illustrated excerpt from Pulitzer-winner Eric Eyre's "DEATH IN MUD LICK," he describes WV Attorney General's Patrick Morrisey's entanglement with one of the huge pharmaceutical companies that helped spawn the opioid crisis, and the devastation that continues to affect families.

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