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WestVirginiaVille

Douglas John Imbrogno

A view of life based in the hills of West Virginia, yet often ranging far beyond its borders in space and time. | A multimedia web-magazine edited by DOUGLAS JOHN IMBROGNO with guest contributors.

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PRE-ELECTION PONDERINGS

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FACEBOOK’S ALGORITHM reminded me of this post I made six years ago today on November 2, 2020. It’s still true after all these years. All of it.



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IF THE COUNTRY GOES TO hell-in-a-handbasket after a Blue Wave—an...

6 days ago
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8 Variations on an Acrobatic Moon

‘GUMBALL MOON.’ | WestVirginiaVille.substack.com | Huntington, W.Va., october2026

‘Barn’s burned down. Now I can see the moon.’

~ MIZUTA MASAHIDE

POSSIBLY AMERICA’S MOST epochal election in decades approaches next week and we’ll ha...

11 days ago
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Turning back the Trumpian Tide | Part 1

WHEN IT COMES TO THE upcoming midterm elections the tide will turn and a Blue Wave will materialize on a campaign-by-campaign basis across America. Now is the time to finally unwind the stranglehold and widespread damage done by Donald Trum...

14 days ago
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5 Political Thoughts Worth Repeating

1 | How One Average West Virginian Got Politically Neutered and Had to Grow a Set

BY REBECCA KIMMONS | WHEN I WAS A KID growing up in the southern West Virginia coalfields, I heard the grownups talk with no small disgust about the croo...

19 days ago
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OCTOBER MONDAY POESY

Colorized and filtered photograph of the author. | WestVirginiaVille.substack.com Tobacconist Photo Bureau | otober2026

WORDS & IMAGE by Douglas John Imbrogno

The Noticing Eye

The gossamer thread of a stray
spider’s web blows...

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    Writer, editor, video crafter & documentarian, sometimes poet, itinerant musician & cat herder, just trying to keep his cigar lit. Publications include WestVirginiaVille; ThroughtheTrees (his folk-chamber ensemble band site); and TheHartoftheMatter.

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