The complete online text of Pembroke 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...

PEMBROKE - Shipbuilders, shoe boxes, and cranberries were once the lifeblood of this town. These days, home is where the town is: residential development increased the town's population by 1,000 percent between 1930 and 2000, according to a town history. Once part of...

When we moved to Pembroke seven years ago, I knew that this was where I wanted to raise my children. It is a close-knit community made up of not only many new young families, but also, more importantly, several generations of those families. The...

Kathleen Tarbell "fell head over my stomach" for her husband Waldo when they met at a dance. They married in 1927, during Calvin Coolidge's presidency. This weekend, they'll celebrate their 80th anniversary.Waldo is 101 and Kathleen will turn 100 in June. The anniversary party will...

Foxy Brown turned up in a Brooklyn church to tell her side of the story of how a visit to a Florida beauty supply store went awry and ended in her arrest.The 27-year-old rapper said she was dragged half-naked out of the store's restroom and...