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    POETRY/PERFORMED: Two Versions of “BOOM BOOM” by Crystal Good

    September 1, 2022 /

    Here are two versions of Crystal Good reading/performing her iconic poem "BOOM BOOM," which reflects on strip-mining mountains and women who strip off their clothes for money.

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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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    WATCH LIST: Here are some things to look at, West Virginia-wise

    July 1, 2022 /

    Check out this version of variations on "Country Roads" by the Kanawha Valley Community Band which channels Aaron Copeland; plus a video of a crazy fitness guy sledding around Charleston WV; and more.

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    A first-hand story about an elephant’s birth in West Virginia

    May 27, 2022 /

    They had dreamed of an elephant for the parade that capped off All Together Arts Week in Mercer County. But where do you get an elephant? A group of artists and elephant enablers decided they must do what they had to do: manifest one.

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    A West Virginia hero’s life to be showcased June 23 at 2022 FestivALL Charleston

    March 30, 2022 /

    "The Wake Up Call," a documentary about the remarkable and heroic international life of West Virginia native Dave Evans, will be screened Thursday, June 23, 2022, in West Virginia's capital city as part of the citywide FestivALL Charleston 2022.

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    Buddhist daily life in backwoods West Virginia

    March 13, 2022 /

    A picture show and video of an unexpected place in the West Virginia woods. In the face of often overwhelming challenges of daily life, and horrors like the current attempted mugging of Ukraine, places that strengthen the spirit such as the Bhavana Society Buddhist forest monastery deep in West Virginia's hills are vital.

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    Losing yourself in Lost River

    December 10, 2021 /

    Wandering the byways and backroads of the Lost River environs in eastern West Virginia, while trying to write a sorta memoir. An imagistic journey.

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    Q&A: “Where Sky Meets Eternity” documents an extraordinary artistic hand-off in the WV hills

    November 4, 2021 /

    The documentary "Where Sky Meets Eternity” profiles an ambitious, offbeat art project from deep in the West Virginia hills, as 12 artists bounced off each other's work in often surprising, unexpected ways.

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    VIDEO: Getting Kids Talking About Climate Change

    September 10, 2021 /

    The best time to address the growing crisis of global climate change was yesterday. The next best time is today. But how to get kids themselves talking about climate change? Here is a video than can help.

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    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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    VIDEO: Other ways of looking at a Mail Pouch barn

    February 16, 2021 /

    Mail Pouch barn signs became such an iconic, familiar image, showcased in tens of thousands of similarly framed snapshots, postcards, and saturated photographs that they are almost impossible to see afresh. We give it a go in "Chew This Way."

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    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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    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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    BLACK HISTORY 2: ‘Rosa Parks’ feet did not hurt’

    February 7, 2021 /

    The actual story of the stalwart moment Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of an Alabama bus in 1955 was far more powerful than a supposed frail, tired old Black lady sitting where she shouldn't.

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    THE FEMALE GAZE: How a West Virginia Artist Captured 100 Badass Women

    February 3, 2021 /

    Overwhelmed by the headlines, by Donald Trump, a pandemic and winter coming, West Virginia artist Sassa Wilkes couldn't get herself to her easel. Then, RBG died and Sassa found she wished to get to know the legal legend by painting her portrait. She kept on going with 99 more portraits of badass women.

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    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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    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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  • Characters,  Photos/Video,  Stories

    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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    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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