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    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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    MEMOIR: ‘The Garden and the Grief’ by Connie Kinsey

    August 4, 2021 /

    Gardens usually signify growth and the boundless, restorative invention of Nature. Yet what happens when they fall into tangles as life's misfortunes overwhelm and distract us from turning their soil? Connie Kinsey's short memoir on on the dance between her garden and her grief.

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    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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  • Editors/Notes,  Stories

    EDITORS/NOTE: Elephant Ankles, a Dad’s love, Natural Sonatas, CROWN Act-ing & More

    June 7, 2021 /

    Welcome to the June 2021 issue of WestVirginiaVille. This edition covers lots of ground. It helps to have good people as guides, leading the way.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    ELEPHANT ANKLES: Life with Long COVID

    June 7, 2021 /

    "This is a good day. I have been sick for months, but I did not die. I am happy to be here. I can do this, but I reserve the right to whine. I also reserve the right to be angry.'

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    IN/PROGRESS: From “The Air My Flowers Breathe: A Love Story”

    June 7, 2021 /

    "It is a life-long struggle for all of us to stave off the disruptive, destructive forces of chaos and try to maintain order. The struggle is especially grueling for a person with autism."

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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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  • NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    RE/PRINT: Only 7 states have passed the CROWN Act. Could West Virginia be next?

    June 7, 2021 /

    While advocates of the CROWN Act promise they'll be back for the 2022 Legislative session, they're also looking beyond the WV Capitol to make change to confront white beauty standards in West Virginia.

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    EDITORS/NOTE: The Art of Speaking Up

    May 5, 2021 /

    The May 2021 issue of WestVirginiaVille.com features a lot of folks speaking up, singing out, and asking, if not demanding to be heard. Here's an overview of the issue's content.

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    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,  Photos/Video,  Stories

    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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  • Points of View,  Stories

    RE/PRINT: Consuming Blackness in ‘progressive’ West Virginia

    May 5, 2021 /

    "White women were laughing and grabbing for bites of sushi off a human body. That imagery doesn't fade. Instead, it continues to enrage me. It stands as both a metaphor and real evidence of oppression and silence."

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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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    RE/PRINT: Community Seeks Police Reform After Shooting On Charleston’s West Side

    May 5, 2021 /

    On April 30, Charleston Police officers shot a 33-year-old Black man, while attempting to make an arrest on Charleston’s West Side. The incident has left many in the community wondering why police resorted to shooting the man who had brandished a knife.

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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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  • NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    SPOTLIGHT: Who is saying what as the Opioid Trial begins

    May 5, 2021 /

    If the first day of a landmark trial involving the nation’s three largest opioid distributors is any indication, a lot of fingers will be pointed elsewhere by those distributors in the coming weeks.

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  • Stories

    EDITORS/NOTE: A ‘ninety-something’ issue

    April 17, 2021 /

    It was only after I got this issue's "5 QUESTIONS" answers back from a 90-something Buddhist monk in the West Virginia outback I realized I was running an inadvertent theme issue with the April 2021 edition of WestVirginiaVille.

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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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