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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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  • Art,  Originals,  Stories

    ORIGINALS |Sassa Wilkes’ “100 Days of Badass Women”

    October 5, 2020 /

    The recent passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg inspired West Virginia artist Sassa Wilkes to paint a portrait of one badass woman. Wilkes didn't stop there. Here's a preview of 99 more to come.

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  • Stories

    Frontier’s history of scandals killed a proposal for crucial funding for West Virginia broadband

    September 30, 2020 /

    If you live in West Virginia, you live with constant laments about the state’s lousy broadband and how it hinders investment, rural development and population growth. Here’s a good Mountain State Spotlight explainer as to why that is so.

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  • Readings,  Stories

    READINGS | “One Cup At a Time: A National Coffee Day Memoir”

    September 29, 2020 /

    Coffee has punctuated my life as exclamation points, commas, periods, and missed periods. Coffee has born witness to the great events and the tiny ones, the happy and the sad. The momentous and the mundane.

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  • NewsoftheDay

    As opioid trial looms in West Virginia, the firms being sued get huge COVID-19 contracts from the Trump administration

    September 26, 2020 /

    The "Big Three" prescription drug firms responsible for fueling the devastating toll of West Virginia's opioid crisis are earning praise and contracts from the Trump adminstration as a key trial holding them to task approaches Oct. 19

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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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    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,  Stories

    WV governor ‘tweaked’ a Harvard COVID map. Their experts say the state’s changes are flawed.

    September 22, 2020 /

    The adminstration of WV Gov. Jim Justice has relied on outdated COVID-19 data for determing each county’s risk level and altered the methodology for determining the total number of cases. A Mountain State Spotlight reprinted investigation.

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    8 DAYS AFTER 9-11: At a Buddhist Retreat in the West Virginia Hills

    September 11, 2020 /

    "First, I'd like to answer this question. What should we do? We should send some kind of force and capture these people. And put them in jail for life — never release them! That is a very compassionate act! Compassionate toward all other beings and for themselves.” He pauses.“That is not an unkind thing to do."

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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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    ILLUSTRATIONS | The Wonderful Friend

    August 22, 2020 /

    "When I finally got to art school, a professor asked me why I ever became an artist in the first place. I told him the truth ..."

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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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    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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  • Editorial,  NewsoftheDay,  Stories,  The Future

    GUEST POST: The Not-So-Natural Gas Boom

    August 10, 2020 /

    Natural gas and the fracking boom have changed the landscape, politics and economics of West Virginia. Sean O'Leary of the Ohio River Valley Institute addresses the claims of "a veritable rock star proponent of 'the natural gas economy.' And finds all nine of his "irrefutable energy truths,” in fact, quite refutable.

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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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  • Readings,  Stories

    READINGS |’The Question That Stripped My Daddy of His Manhood’

    August 7, 2020 /

    "I felt his shame and embarrassment. It was not my intent to shame or embarrass my daddy. But he heard the anger and reprimand in my voice. You know. Don’t-let-anyone-take-advantage-of-you kind of reprimand ..."

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