Visit the real Sleepy Hollow, and the places the Headless Horseman haunts in Washington Irving’s tale
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Halloween is here, and there’s no better place to spend a spooky afternoon than the Westchester County villages of Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow in New York state, an easy Metro-North Railroad or car drive from New York City. This is the hilly countryside where author Washington Irving lived, and where he set his 1820 tale “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” It was here that Irving unleashed the Headless Horseman — a decapitated Hessian soldier who rises from the Old Dutch Church’s graveyard in quest of his head — on the hapless schoolmaster Ichabod Crane.
Visit the real Sleepy Hollow, and the places the Headless Horseman haunts in Washington Irving’s tale
Visit the real Sleepy Hollow, and the places…
Visit the real Sleepy Hollow, and the places the Headless Horseman haunts in Washington Irving’s tale
Halloween is here, and there’s no better place to spend a spooky afternoon than the Westchester County villages of Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow in New York state, an easy Metro-North Railroad or car drive from New York City. This is the hilly countryside where author Washington Irving lived, and where he set his 1820 tale “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” It was here that Irving unleashed the Headless Horseman — a decapitated Hessian soldier who rises from the Old Dutch Church’s graveyard in quest of his head — on the hapless schoolmaster Ichabod Crane.