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    ESSAYS: The Rise and Fall of an American Con Man

    January 19, 2021 /

    A look back at a false prophet who was in fact a manipulative, sadistic, misogynistic, cunnning con man who many people adored. We mean, of course, Robert Mitchum in "Night of the Hunter," shot in Moundsville WV. A timely essay.

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  • Characters,  Stories

    Protected: HERO OF THE OPEN HEART: The Long, Strange Trip of Dave Evans’ Notable Life

    January 19, 2021 /

    There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    Behind West Virginia’s vaccine success story, chaos for local health departments

    January 16, 2021 /

    A surprise announcement from Gov. Jim Justice to begin vaccinating the general public caught county health departments in West Virginia — responsible for coordinating the state’s frontline response to the pandemic — off guard.

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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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  • Music,  Stories

    ESSAYS: ‘David Bowie, Dad & Me’

    January 13, 2021 /

    Here's a new dispatch from our "Play That Funky Music Bureau"—a touching memoir of the ties between a young West Virginia-born writer and her Dad woven by the music of David Bowie—who have been 74 on January 8.

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  • Covid Family Project,  Photos/Video,  Stories

    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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  • Art,  Artifacts,  Photos/Video

    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: 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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    What happened when WV Gov. Jim Justice charged ‘broadband’ expenses to the CARES Act

    December 18, 2020 /

    What happened when Gov. Jim Justice promised this Fall to expand broadband and hook more families, schools, and industries to the Internet in rural West Virginia, using COVID relief funding? Not much, reports Mountain State Spotlight.

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  • Characters,  Stories

    CHARACTERS: The West Virginia brain drain made one of the world’s greatest popstars

    December 18, 2020 /

    In a new edition of our 'Characters' series, we reprint a John W. Miller piece on Lady Gaga's West Virginia roots—and how her Northern Panhandle grandma lifted her up at a low moment, sending her packing back to New York with instructions to "kick some ass."

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  • Nature,  Photos/Video,  Stories

    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,  Photos/Video,  Stories,  Urban Appalachia

    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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    BOOKS: A Hybrid Press for West Virginia and Beyond

    December 13, 2020 /

    A new publishing outlet and writing resource has opened in West Virginia. The brainchild of writer and educator Andréa Fekete, Guest Room Press is a hybrid press—a breed that lies somewhere between the worlds of traditional publishing and self-publication.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    West Virginia’s minor league baseball teams suffer major league disappointment

    December 11, 2020 /

    West Virginia has a rich baseball past, with affiliated pro teams going back over a century, but Major League Baseball just cut its ties to the state's four minor league teams.

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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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  • NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    With deadline looming, critics question WV governor’s CARES Act priorities, unspent funds

    December 8, 2020 /

    Mountain State Spotlight takes a deep dive into WV Gov. Jim Justice's confounding inaction in allotting $1.25 million in CARES Act Covid relief funding to businesses and families in need in West Virginia, as a deadline looms for disbursing the funds.

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  • 5 Questions,  NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    5 QUESTIONS: Kyle Vass on street-level addiction reporting & telling audio stories

    December 6, 2020 /

    Multimedia journalist Kyle Vass on hitting the streets of Charleston WV to report on the addiction crisis and the art of audio storytelling.

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