The complete online text of Giles Corey, Yeoman by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman.

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman ranks among the foremost interpreters of New England village and rural life. Though she may correctly be described as a local colorist, she is much more, for in her short stories and novels she deals perceptively with the 250-year...

The life of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman has too often been compared to that of the spinsters who populate much of her fiction. Although she lived most of her life in small New England villages and did not marry until she was forty-nine years of age, Freeman'...

A small doll-like woman, who never wished to grow old and yet came to resemble so many of her aging heroines, created in her fiction the heart of New England's life and ethos. Mary Wilkins Freeman created strong-willed characters, whose Yankee stoicism o...

Violinist Corey Cerovsek gave a perfect recital last night in the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater, demonstrating that mere perfection is not quite enough. At 19, on the brink of a PhD in mathematics, Cerovsek is a phenomenal musician, reportedly a world-class pianist as...

The first item of business on the Senate's calendar when it returns from vacation after Labor Day will be the bill to create a Department of Homeland Security and to restructure the executive branch for better coordination of the war against terrorism. The...