"Village Schoolteacher," the title reads, and one instinctively fears for his cowering pupils.
AGE 66 HONORARY TITLE Village chief of Nyankomase, Ghana HOBBY Fixing things.
But these farmers also knew that nobody in their village had clear title to the land they farmed.
Within a given village, the senior title, as determined by mythological connections, gave its holder the position of chief.
Inside the clubhouse, members talk ruefully about the year Gravesend was beaten by a nearby village to the title of being the hottest place in the UK.
One is Thorpe's own debut, Ulverton (1992), to the fictitious Wessex village of whose title the hero of this book periodically returns.
From "The Tracks of Chief de Soto," an account of the 16th-century Spanish explorer's exploitation of an American Indian village, to the title story, in which, after witnessing a plane crash, a highway construction worker loots money from the victims' bodies, Morgan's writing is remarkably consistent, focused on the fine line between desire and need.
The eight "Pitmen" actors have been with the play since 2007, when it first ran at the Live Theater in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, a city about a four-hour drive north of London that was once surrounded by the so-called pit villages, where the title characters toiled for 10 hours a day.
What was your role? A. My official title was village liaison to the project.
He said that by amending its eminent domain motion in State Supreme Court in Central Islip, the village could forgo taking title to the building at a saving of $200,000 to $300,000.
In return, Mr. Clinton, wearing an ankle-length silver gown over his shirt and tie, invoked his wife's book, "It Takes A Village," which took its title from an African proverb.
