Tag: Hudson River Valley

  • Beware the Headless Horseman! — Sleepy Hollow Country in NY State

    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…

  • Celebrating National Book Lovers Day

    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…