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    A LOOK BACK: When Elephants Walked in West Virginia

    You may not believe it. I would well understand should you not. The querulous mind dances lightly upon the phrase—and then rejects it utterly. There have never been elephants in West Virginia. But you would be wrong. Oh, so wrong.

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    IT’S A MOTHER’S DAY THING: One Rant, One Song, One Memoir

    She had the greenest of thumbs, a bright intellect and dreamed of being the kind of writer that Toni Morrison, a hometown contemporary, became. What to do when your mother — in the late stages of Alzheimer's — is moving mutely toward her departure from this life?

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    ‘WHAT IF YOU KNEW HER?’: The Protest 7 Years after the Kent State Massacre 50 Years Ago

    Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Kent State shootings, in which four students were gunned down on May 4, 1970. As a student journalist, I profiled a protest seven years later on the Kent campus, where the memories remained raw and more than a thousand converged to protest.

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    IT’S A LAMB THING: Sheepish Thanks to an Old Friend

    I spent the day before my birthday making a ridiculous music video that shows only lambs, sheeps and rams for three minutes. Here's why

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    Ten Years After: Remembering the Faces from Upper Big Branch

    It is has been ten years since the Upper Big Branch mine Disaster in West Virginia, which killed 29 miners, from their 20s to their 60s. Here is a video remembrance of their faces, as still-grieving families brace once more for Don Blankenship to rub salt in their wounds.

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    SONGS OF COMFORT, SONGS OF HOME: “Till There Was You”

    They were young idealists picking up trash across America. One of them could nail a tune from "The Music Man." (NOT "76 Trombones.") Enter a ponytailed, cigar-chomping Cincinnati jazz pianist in a Parmesan-wedge of a club in the hazardous part of town.

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    The Christmas People Put this Hat On Me

    The Christmas People put this hat on me. A bright red hat with thick white fur. And a big ball that blocks one eye. So it begins.

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  • Essays,  Memoir

    What Have You Done With All the Jerks?

    What do you do when people act in a totally, unexpected, strange, unnerving manner in an age when civility is in the ER hooked up to an IV?

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  • Essays,  Memoir

    May You Find Your Inner PEZ Once More

    A few words to our PEZ Family as we go our separate ways. And may you be full of PEZ again some day!

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Welcome to the portfolio site of The StoryIsTheThing, a multimedia craft production shop based in West Virginia. The site features essays, photo-essays, short & long-form video, music , poetry & more. The site is a production of writer, editor & multimedia producer Douglas John Imbrogno. Our companion site is WestVirginiaVille.com REACH ME via the Contact page or email: douglasjohnmartin AT icloud.com

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