WestVirginiaVille
Douglas John ImbrognoA 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.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 164 | Founded | 9 years ago | Last Issue | 5 days ago |
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LOOKING DOWN, YOU SAY?
PHOTOS & WORDS by DOUGLAS JOHN IMBROGNO
PEOPLE WHO KNOW OF recent events in my life may by unsurprised to find I’ve lately been looking down a lot. It is not that I am down all the time. Yet I am routinely smacked upside the head by s...
‘WHAT DO YOU DO’
‘WHAT DO YOU DO’
by Douglas John Imbrogno
WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN
someone’s gone who is
supposed to be there?
It doesn’t matter how long
you look, nor the sweep
of your looking. You look
high & low, in-between, over
th...
‘One Day This Movie ...’
EDITOR’S NOTE | My apologies to readers who follow both my Facebook feed & WestVirginiaVille, as you will have seen much of this post and the music video below.
By DOUGLAS JOHN IMBROGNO | August 19, 2026
TOMORROW WILL MARK A WEEK s...
HOMER HICKAM: A Writer From the Hills to the Stars
EDITOR’S NOTE: This edition of WestVirginiaVille contains a two-for-one package focused on the life and works of West Virginia native Homer Hickam.
ABOVE IS A 58-MINUTE AUDIO PODCAST of my wide-ranging interview with Homer Hickam last No...
A RAINBOW HIGH
By DOUGLAS JOHN IMBROGNO | SOMETIMES, YOU JUST HAVE TO HEAR 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow,' (click the arrow above), a song well-described as a timeless tune of hope, aspiration, and resilience. And sometimes you are blessed to sing it with a...
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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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