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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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SIX STILL LIVES

Photo & Text by Douglas John Imbrogno

ONE DAY I MAY REVEAL the emotion, heartbreak, and dire challenges that are the impetus behind this posting of photographs of mine, freeze-framing the world in stillness, beauty or both. This is no...

16 days ago
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5 BIRTHING DAY THOUGHTS

The height of my fashion sense (or rather my Mom’s for me) is seen in this photo in front of our house in Falls Church, Virginia, about three years after my birth on May 1, 1957. | (I slightly colorized this old photo.)

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A NEWSPAPERMAN REMEMBERS

Don Hatfield in his element, in an undated photo someone else may be able to date. It is after September 1982, the month Gannett launched USA Today, a copy of which looks to be on his desktop at left...

NOTE TO READERS and LISTENERS: You c...

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'CRAZY DAYS' EXCERPT: The Arrival

INTRODUCTION | I have been ghosting Substack for a bit and am on a social-media sabbatical, too, while I bear down on the final chapters of a ‘novelized memoir,’ tentatively titled ‘CRAZY DAYS: Confessions of a Fallen Altar Boy.’ As proof o...

a month ago
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ANNOTATED IMAGERY for a NERVOUS AGE

PHOTOS & TEXT by Douglas John Imbrogno

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‘MORNING TANGERINES’ | Fruit & Flowers Photography Bureau of WestVirginiaVille.substack.com | April2026

I TAKE A MOMENT’S COMFORT from the following truth. Tangerines that burst like sma...

2 months ago
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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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