Nine women will be enshrined at an Oct. 12 ceremony in Seneca Falls, the western New York village where the first known women's rights convention was held.
Visiting over 25 countries per year, my favorite experience was on a visit to Baramati, a small village in western India.
In western Honduras, the tropical coffee farm Finca el Paraiso, in the village of Los Naranjos on the western edge of Lago de Yojoa, has easy walking trails and is a fantastic base for boating and bird watching on the lake.
One of Syria's latest flash points is Haffa, a mountaintop village overlooking the coastal western city of Latakia.
In one of the refugee camps in Chad in 2005, we met Fatima, forty-two, who described how she had to escape her village of Girgira in western Darfur after her mother, husband, and five children were all killed by the Janjaweed militias.
The track is featured on his latest album Joko, a musical journey from life in his parents' village to his collaborations with western artists including Gabriel, Sting and Fugee Wyclef Jean.
But when it comes time for his convalescence, he still gets a luxury view: the stunning terraced gardens of Villa del Balbianello, an Italian villa on the western shore of Lake Como near the village of Lenno.
The Syiems say that despite Christianity and western influences, the young still obey their village elders.
At an open meeting in the village on Monday, the chief executive of the Western Health Trust said they had tried to remove the brothers from the community for their own safety after reports that stones had been thrown at their house - but their options were very limited.
The book's description of the texture of village life will also help people to understand the subtleties that usually escape Western headlines about Darfur.
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Herkimer is a village of 7, 700 named for the German immigrant family that settled in the western Mohawk Valley in the 1720s.
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