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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: 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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    EDITORIAL: The Art of the Trumpian Limerick

    October 27, 2020 /

    As Donald Trump's first term limps towards its end, we drop in on a Trumpian chronicler. West Virginia poet and writer Colleen Anderson has been chronicling Trump's misrule for four years now—in limericks.

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    EDITORIAL: “The West Virginia Hills” and the Race for WV Attorney General

    October 26, 2020 /

    On the one hand in this year's election contests in West Virginia, you've got state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey and his Trump-Adoring, Big Pharma connections, and Affordable Care Act Torpedoing Ways. On the other hand, there's labor lawyer Sam Brown Petsonk. Here's are two minutes about that.

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    EDITORIAL | John Mandt Jr., Uncensored

    October 15, 2020 /

    In the debut of our multimedia editorial feature, The Justice Project, we take a musical walk-through of the chatroom comments that led WV delegate John Mandt Jr., to resign. He has since said he'd serve if elected on Nov. 3.

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    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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    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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    “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 example is ever more needed now in America.

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    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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    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 | “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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    POEM | “Nous Celeron” by Douglas John Imbrogno

    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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    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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    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 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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    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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    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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