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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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SANTANA IN VERONA, circa 2008

Part of the thousands in the Arena di Verona, Italy, come to see Santana perform one July night in 2008. | PHOTO by Douglas John Imbrogno

Words & Photos by Douglas John Imbrogno

Soundtrack (BELOW) by Lucas Dulio Imbrogno McKeown

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EXPLORING BLACK-and-WHITE WORLD

PHOTOS & TEXT by DOUGLAS JOHN IMBROGNO

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‘ALL LIT UP.’ | General Joe Turner shares a moment over cigars at The Squire in Charleston, West Virginia. | WestVirginiaVille.substack.com photo | october2026

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OP-ED LIMERICKS for the TRUMP AGE

l. Cick to View Limerick

BACK IN THE FIRST AGE OF TRUMP, we all hoped that there would not, God help us, be a second. Well, of course, the Second Age of Trump is deeply upon us and worse by a factor of 100. Yet, there are glimmers—and...

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Thoughts on Being Lost in Cincinnati

‘MAN ABOUT TOWN.’ | It’s not often a singer looms large as James Brown in this mural masterpiece in Over-the-Rhine in Cincinnati. Designed by Jenny Ustick, | WestVirginiaVille.substack.com photo | september2026

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ALTARED BOY

‘ALTAR EGO’ | Everything looks pretty much the same as it did at Our Lady of the Rosary when I was an altar boy on that self-same altar more than a half-century ago in Greenhills, Ohio. | WestVirginiaVille.substack.com | eptember2026

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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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