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...except to those who remember it a long time ago before the elms died and the brick buildings got that worn-down look. Even the McDonald's is top of the line, located in an old house so tastefully redone that a critic of the fast development, John McGivaren, says of it, "If one has to have a McDonald's in one's neighborhood, this is probably the best one. They've done a magnificent job appearance-wise." His wife Barbara doesn't mind the look of the place either. However, the McDonald's is just down the hill from...
...John McGivaren is a retired Navy pilot who found Freeport a quiet village when he moved here in 1977. Two years ago, with the pace quickening, Barbara campaigned against pell-mell development and won a seat on the town council. "We experienced a shock," she says. "Where Hathaway (shirts) is was Downs' grocery. That went out of business. Bass (shoes) used to be Freeport Variety, the paper store, and that's where you met your neighbor." Freeport has been gentrified, she says, by stores too pricey for her constituents. Yet, she confesses, "I'll tell you what...
While Barbara McGivaren talks of the bank she thinks is going up on her corner and the 52-unit motel going up across the street from that, the uncountable thousands are walking down Main Street in the rain. A young woman comes out of Bean's, pleasure in her face and a felt make-believe moose rack on her head. Inside an outlet shop, a slender matron explains to her friend, "So he bought me these shoes in Gucci's, and I said to him, 'Do me a favor. Don't buy me anything.' " Down in back of Main Street...
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