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Article: A legend reborn; the headless Horseman rides again as Sleepy Hollow celebrates Washington Irving; Sleepy Hollow ready for legendary event.
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- The Boston Herald
- Article date:
- October 23, 1997
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The falling light is not kind to the tulip trees, exposing their gnarled trunks and twisted limbs hunched with age. The wind crumbles and scatters dead leaves across unlit paths in the graveyard. At twilight, vapors rise off the edges of Andre Brook, and screech owls hoot as the evening deepens into the shadows of doubt and fear.
Lovelorn schoolteacher Ichabod Crane, terrorized by a headless horseman, disappeared into such a night in Sleepy Hollow, and modern-day visitors have been returning to this hamlet in the Hudson River Valley to relive the fear, and enjoy the satire, penned by Washington Irving more than 100 years ago in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
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