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    SONGS of COMFORT, SONGS of HOME: May John Prine Awake in ‘Paradise’

    John Prine has passed on. Here's a video homage to one of America's greatest singer-songwriters—a video version of his tune "Paradise." May he awaken in his paradise.

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  • Essays,  Video

    VISITING ITALY IN SPIRIT: ‘The Key To My Grandfather’s House’

    Take a trip to Italy in spirt and in solidarity during this time of global pandemic and lockdown. What unites us is that we are all immigrants of one kind or another. Here is one family's tale out of Calabria. What's yours?

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    OP-ED LIMERICKS: “Fauci,” “Mother Jones,” & “To Be Kind”

    I am doing my bit to man the barricades by helping to Illustrate the op-ed limericks by a sister-in-arms in West Virginia. Baby Trump balloons feature prominently.

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  • Memoir,  Video

    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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  • Essays

    HERE COMES the TSUNAMI: Getting Ready for Loss in a Pandemic

    A huge wave of dying and grief is headed our way from the Covid-19 pandemic. And for that we must be prepared to share the burden—and share the joy, even—of coming together even as things fall apart.

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    “TAKING TO WING”: A Pandemic Diversion

    If you can't fly away from the Covid-19 pandemic, take this diversion into the skies, set to a 4th grade flute thingie, two guitars, and a whole lot of birds.

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  • Memoir,  Video

    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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    Take a 10-Minute Trip to Havana & Back

    You couldn't have a better traveling companion than to head to Cuba with Susan Werner. Needing a trip out of quarantine? Take a ten-minute jaunt down south to Havana.

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  • Essays,  Photo Essay

    Nature’s Not Sheltering in Place

    t looks like the violets have returned from wherever violets over-winter. They are small, but distinctive. Kind of like the Pekinese of the front yard. Meanwhile, out on the deck the cardinals are just as prevalent as the violets. Flitting about like there's no tomorrow. Maybe for us. Not for them, it looks like.

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  • Essays,  Video

    “SKATEBOARD MAN”: Bruising Tale of Determination Caught on Video

    Take a few lessons from Skateboard Man. Not quite so much about how to skateboard. But about how to be determined! To skateboard through life. It's tough out there downtown.

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  • Songs

    SONGS of COMFORT, SONGS of HOME: “Two Guitars, One Heart”

    Here's an instrumental track I made yesterday, taking two passes on my Guild classical guitar. Calming music for crazy days. If you like it, download it for free at the link.

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  • Essays,  Profiles

    The Long Life of a PopCult

    As we settle into self-containment and life constricts to several rooms, I wish to look around and note folks still publishing worthy original content online. Back in the Days of Yore, pre-Plague, when we were all young and innocent and didn't tweet-rage or sh*tpost, there were these things called 'blogs.'

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  • Songs,  Video

    SONGS of COMFORT, SONGS of HOME: A West Virginia Medley

    I don't know whether spending the better part of a day crafting a music video from an old performance is the height of absurdity and uselessness as a tsunami of global suffering bears down upon the human race. But we could do worse, as we hunker down together, than to listen to this Clementines version of Hazel Dickens' great "West Virginia, My Home."

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  • Photo Essay

    10 Ways of Looking at West Virginia

    With so many of us house-bound, my restless spirits may have been grunting about for some space and spaciousness. Here are 10 views from all around West Virginia for a little relief from cabin fever quarantine.

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  • Songs

    SONGS of COMFORT, SONGS of HOME: Winging It for #LiveatHome

    A soul-sister Appalachian pal sorta-kinda challenged me to record something straight to smartphone as part of the contagion social media movement afoot of Quarantine Performances. Here's a first take from the John Lennon Memorial Studio of Appalachia.

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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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