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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 |’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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  • Photos/Video,  Stories,  The Past

    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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    DRAGLINE: Charleston, W.Va. officials dancing around police reform one year after beating of unarmed woman

    July 30, 2020 /

    This recent Dragline piece by Kyle Vass follows up on a Charleston Police Department incident in West Virginia's capital city in October 2019, which has dropped from the headlines. The story has not received the sustained attention it deserves and this article helps fill some of that gap.

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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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    READINGS | “Please Take Care of My Friend: Heart Advice from a Stranger”

    July 27, 2020 /

    "Don't drive if you're upset. Don't beat yourself up. Know you're lovable and inspire others even if you're not feeling it. Meditate. Sing. Even badly. It changes the brain right away "

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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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    A Portrait of the Artist in Her Studio & Out: Jes Reger

    July 24, 2020 /

    Jes Reger is an accomplished watercolorist based in Wheeling WV. In the first of a series of profiles of Tamarack for the Arts 2020 Emerging Artist fellows, she talks about the challenges of being a working painter during a global pandemic.

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    5 QUESTIONS: When Life Hands You Quarantine, You Make a Web Series Out of It

    July 23, 2020 /

    Curren Sheldon and Tijah Bumgarner are the wizards behind the extremely entertaining web series, "Quarantine Life," which asks—and answers—the question: What do two mondo-talented West Virginia filmmakers do during a global pandemic that has locked down the usual creative projects into which they had been pouring their life force?

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    ROADTRIPPING: “Ohio Rover” Homage to a Bridge

    July 22, 2020 /

    Needing to get out of Quarantine Dodge this week, we took a roadtrip out of the Mountain State and up the Ohio River, passing the stately suspension tie bridge between West Virginia and Ohio. Here's a jazzy, one-minute musical homage, which commences WestVirginiaVille's "Roadtripping" video series.

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    DRAGLINE: The Pro-Pipeline Editorial by the Pipeline Industry CEO/Publisher

    July 21, 2020 /

    “It’s damn easy to figure out what has been lost,” Doug Reynolds wrote in his West Virginia newspapers, “but for the life of me I can’t ascertain who won.” What Reynolds fails to mention is what exactly is losing: his natural gas pipeline construction company.

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    5 THINGS | 1 Bridge, 1 Motorcycle, 1 Queen, 1 Mask & 1 Batman

    July 19, 2020 /

    Here are 5 images from the life, times and artistry of WestVirginiaVille, by staff and contributors. Including a drive-by Batman, a misty West Virginia icon and more.

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    VIDEO: Not Your Average Ice Cream Truck Story

    July 17, 2020 /

    The tinkling sound of a new ice cream truck cruising the streets and cul-de-sacs of Cabell County, West Virginia, has a quite remarkable story behind it by a quite remarkable mother and son.

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    CHARACTERS: A Rebel of the Decidedly Non-Confederate Sort

    July 16, 2020 /

    She hated several things, one of which she called“narrowmindedness,” a catchall term for her that included racism, religious bigotry, homophobia, science-denying, disapproval of card playing, abstinence from wine and other offenses against humanity.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Photos/Video,  Stories,  The Past

    TRAILER: A Peek at “Bye-Bye, Stonewall” mini-doc

    July 15, 2020 /

    Here's a peek from the trailer to WestVirginiaVille's upcoming mini-documentary, "Bye-Bye, Stonewall," on the years-long backstory on how a school in a black neighborhood in West Virginia's capital city finally got free of Confederate general Stonewall Jackson's name and mug.

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  • Editorial,  Stories

    DEAR DOUG REYNOLDS: An Open Letter On Your Pro-Pipeline Column

    July 13, 2020 /

    "One would think you might have had serious second thoughts about not revealing some key information in your pro-pipeline column. After all, you were standing in the bully pulpit of a newspaper that prided itself on shedding light into dark corners of conflicts of interest and spotlighting partial truths that mask self-interest."

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    MARIE MANILLA | Part 2: “Madness”

    July 11, 2020 /

    "Bev screamed: “It’s Joey!” The sweet boy so many girls loved. Did he even drive a white car? I think we all knew it wasn’t Joey asphyxiated inside that vehicle, but it could have been him. It could have, and it felt good to whip ourselves into a frenzy—yet another asylum-able offense."

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  • 5 Questions,  Q-and-A,  Stories

    MARIE MANILLA | Part 1: Driving By Her Own Headlights

    July 11, 2020 /

    Huntington WV native Marie Manilla is an award-winning fiction and non-fiction author. In a "5 Questions" interview, she talks about the highs and lows of writing; the 'snotty literati,' who use labels to belittle writers; and the novel she scrapped after hearing pre-publication reactions by African American and transgender sensitivity readers.

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    READINGS | A Stroll Deep into a West Virginia Marsh

    July 10, 2020 /

    If it’s true we are mother, father, sister, brother, related all to all, maybe that's one way to comprehend and befriend the ten thousand things. The hundreds of voices, cries, and songs rising from this manifold marsh.

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