Do you remember Sleepy Floyd? Born Eric Floyd, the retired NBA point guard played professionally from 1982 to 1995. He was selected as an NBA All-Star in 1987, and later that same year, in the ...
The enormous popularity of what was once a nonevent owes a lot to Washington Irving and the lower Hudson Valley An 1849 sketch of Ichabod Crane pursued by the Headless Horseman for an edition of ...
On this day, Aug. 2, in 1942, the body of Jose Diaz was found at the Sleepy Lagoon reservoir in southeast Los Angeles, a case that led to the Zoot Suit Riots of 1943. The slaying was discovered the ...
Some stories linger in the mind long after the last page is turned. The legend of the Headless Horseman is one of those stories. It has been whispered around campfires, retold in classrooms, and ...
AND LORE. I MEAN, A HEADLESS HORSEMAN. HALLOWEEN IS PRETTY EPIC IN SLEEPY HOLLOW, BUT IT’S ALSO A PLACE BORDERED BY WATER WITH A LEGENDARY RIVER OF ITS OWN. TOTALLY DEFINES THE IDENTITY OF THE RIVER ...
JUST RENAME ITSELF SLEEPY HOLLOW TO HONOR WASHINGTON IRVING’S CLASSIC STORY. THE TOWN CONTINUES TO CELEBRATE ALL THINGS IRVING. WE ALL FEEL VERY CONNECTED TO THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW AND THE FACT ...