hundredmountain.com is the grand central station for the music, original webworks, writings and collected handiwork by douglas imbrogno. Born in 1957 along with Sputnik, he grew up in Columbus and Cincinnati, Ohio, and graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio with a degree in English and wanderlust. After interning at the Cincinnati Enquirer, he worked as a government and feature reporter with the Huntington Herald-Dispatch in Huntington, W.Va. A decade later, sick of county commission meetings, he quit to travel abroad and worked for a summer in France for an international youth work camp. Adventure, drama, tragedy, all ensued. He returned to West Virginia in 1988 as feature editor of the Charleston Gazette in the state’s capital city. During that time, he began to perform as a singer-songwriter in coffeeshops, festivals and schools. In 2002, along with four partners, he co-founded the Mountain Stage NewSong Festival at the historic Claymont Court estate near Charles Town, W.Va. The national performing songwriter organization now includes a nationally esteemed songcamp in Shepherdstown, W.Va., and the international Mountain Stage NewSong Contest, whose finals take place in New York City each fall.

In 2005, he released “Saint Stephen’s Dream,” a CD of his original songs, produced and recorded with collaborator Bob Webb and performed by an assemblage of musicians christened garagecow ensemble. The CD has received national and international airplay. He plays out as both the singer and performance artist in solo and band form. He was featured in the 2005 production “Saint Stephen’s Dream: Excerpts from a Dream-in-Progress,” as part of the Kanawha Player’s “Briefs & Short” series. He is author of the illustrated adventure poem “Snatchgrin,” a two-volume work-in-progress, readable online at its most current length. In March, 2005, he founded and became editor of thegazz.com, an online arts and entertainment magazine of The Charleston Gazette. He lives with his wife, Laurie McKeown, 17-year-old son, 13-year-old daughter and two cats in the yard near Huntington, West Virginia. (Well, one -- Gizmo -- is an indoor cat. Tabitha goes into the yard, though.)