Tag: Hudson River Valley
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Beware the Headless Horseman! — Sleepy Hollow Country in NY State
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My childhood was shaped by an eerie scene of cattails alongside a road that were beating, in the rising wind, a tattoo like ghostly hoofbeats upon a dark and lonely road. I’ve loved Disney’s The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949), an animated adaptation narrated by Bing Crosby, from…
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Celebrating National Book Lovers Day
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North of New York City, along the edge of the Hudson River, there is a small estate lying between the railroad tracks of Metro North and the broad expanse of the river. Chapter One, Ghostlight, by Marion Zimmer Bradley One October, I made a pilgrimage, with hubby as chauffeur and…