The complete online text of The Great Stone Face by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Although Nathaniel Hawthorne called himself "the obscurest man in American letters," his achievements in fiction, both as short-story writer and novelist, offer models fashioned too well for contemporary and later writers to ignore. Even though fame was...

When Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts, on our most patriotic holiday in 1804, his ancestral roots were already deeply planted in New England. Writing in The Scarlet Letter (1850) of his sentimental affection for the town of his birth,...

In sketches, tales, and romances published in the second third of the nineteenth century, Nathaniel Hawthorne chose mainly American materials, drawing especially on the history of colonial New England and his native Salem in the time of his early America...

Most first-time visitors to the Canadian Museum of Civilization get their initial view of it from the heights of Parliament Hill, across the river in Ottawa, Canada's capital. On a bright fall day, the main museum building with its rounded copper roofs appears to...

The Great Stone Wall" is a song of hope for change in times of adversity; and a prayer for better days ahead. This inspiring and thoughful anthem is available on Jim's recent release Collateral Damage, available from Whid-Isle at Greenwood P.O. Box 30198,...