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    WEST VIRGINIA in COLOR | Series 1

    November 27, 2024 /

    Take a breather from political anxiety. And for those of us who dearly love this place called West Virginia — and for out-of-staters willing to be swayed from tired cliches — let's color outside the lines for a few minutes. Please consider the debut of 'West Virginia In Color,' a new, occasional series on people and places in the towns, hollers and hills of the Mountain State which feature a blast, a blaze, or notable burst of color.

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  • Nature,  Photos/Video,  Stories

    ONE/PHOTO: What the thistle tells

    August 9, 2022 /

    'the ants quickly took to the milk thistle this year. her bloom doesn’t last long. maybe two days. they seem to be in sync with this knowing, almost as if there is a pulse they can feel when she begins her bloom.'

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  • Music/Video,  Nature,  Photos/Video

    VIDEO: “WATER/CLOUD/WIND/LEAF: A Hoeft Marsh Melody”

    July 19, 2022 /

    Hoeft Marsh in Greenbottom WV is where I go when I want to get off the timeline of the world's news. Here's a short, lyrical visit there. It's a little fishy, at the end.

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  • Essay,  Stories

    FIRST/PERSON: A Turtle Rescue Out on Pluto Road

    July 1, 2022 /

    "The first time I tried to save a turtle on the move it peed — or pooped, I’m not sure which — in my truck. I had stopped when I saw a box turtle in the middle of Pluto Road one afternoon maybe ten years ago. I hit my brakes right there in traffic ....

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    PICTURE/SHOW: A taste for solitude & forests in West Virginia hill country

    May 27, 2022 /

    'Have I cared enough about the water? Have I left the eagle to soar in freedom? Have I done everything I could to earn my grandchild's fondness?'

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  • Art,  Nature,  Photos/Video,  Picture/Show,  Stories

    PICTURE/SHOW: The Hills & Dales of Al Peery’s West Virginia

    November 4, 2021 /

    When it comes to Autumn in the West Virginia outback, nothing could be finer than Al Peery framing the scene from his wanderings in the West Virginia wilderness.

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  • Nature,  Poetics,  Readings

    READINGS: Three from “Corona Time Capsule”

    September 10, 2021 /

    'Feed Them on Peaches,' 'Grass Fire,' and '¡Ya Basta!' — three excerpts of poetry and prose from poet James Cochran's forthcoming book "Corona Time Capsule."

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  • Climate,  Nature,  Photos/Video,  Stories

    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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    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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    NATUREGRAM: Cleanup needed at the Huntington Museum of Art trail

    March 20, 2021 /

    I normally post photographs and videos of Nature in all its solitudinous glory, when sickened by social media junk food and needing more wholesome nourishment. But our dear Mother is not always picture postcard perfect when we seek her aid.

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    NATUREGRAM: Two minutes of nothing but pines, plus some calming music

    March 13, 2021 /

    We can't share with you the sweet aroma of a stand of pine trees in Putnam County, West Virginia. But we can share with you the experience of standing among them. A new WestVirginiiaVille shelter-in-nature short video.

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    ARTSHOW: ‘How Do You Serve the Ice?’

    February 25, 2021 /

    How do you properly shoot, process, and filter photographs of an ice storm for the ages? How about artifying them? But how much is too much? Here are some humble attempts to portray the Great Winter Ice Storm of 2021.

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  • Music,  Nature,  Photos/Video

    MUSICVIDEO: “Winter Walking,” when it’s not such a wonderland

    February 16, 2021 /

    A long winter grips the land. Add in cabin-fever weariness from a year-long COVID quarantine—and you can be forgiven if it seems like we are living through "a winter that never dies." Here's a music video about that.

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  • Nature,  Photos/Video,  Stories

    PHOTOPOEM: “When Hay Bales Speak to You”

    February 11, 2021 /

    Let’s talk hay bales. I have, perhaps like you, been spying hay 
bales most all my life. Yet, in all that time haven’t met a hay bale. Up close. The other day, I had my chance.

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  • Music/Video,  Nature,  Photos/Video,  Stories

    VIDEO: “Chasing Birds in Snow”

    February 10, 2021 /

    Take a 2-minute excursion into the heart of the heart of Nature, as a bunch of birds play leapfrog in the midst of a West Virginia snow squall.

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  • Music/Video,  Nature,  Stories

    VIDEO: “The Edge of Day”

    February 9, 2021 /

    Thoughts on high while at the edge of day. An original short video production featuring imagery and music by Bobby Lee Messer and words by Kim Wilkinson.

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  • Music/Video,  Nature,  Photos/Video

    VIDEO: A Sky-high View of the New River Gorge Bridge

    January 30, 2021 /

    The New River Gorge Bridge is one of West Virginia's most iconic landmarks. But have you ever seen it from an eagle's eye view—or maybe an Olympian god's?

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  • Nature,  Photos/Video,  Stories

    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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  • Nature,  Photos/Video

    VIDEO: When Snow Day is Christmas Day & the Day After

    December 27, 2020 /

    It's rare for Huntington, W.Va. to get snow on Christmas, much less the perfect snow for sledding. The Christmas Eve snowstorm at the end of the long, hard year of 2020 will likely remain for a long while in people's memories, as Christmas unfolded with snow, sunshine and the holiday all wrapped into one day.

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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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