The complete online text of The Heart's Highway 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...

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Highways, meet future From mag-lev lanes to robotic trucks, engineers seek ways for existing roads to handle more traffic By DANIEL SFORZA The Record (Bergen County, N.J.) Sunday, September 22, 2002 Hackensack, N.J. -- A giant conveyor belt that carries...