Download or read book Haunted Travels in the Hudson River Valley of Washington Irving written by Todd Atteberry and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the haunted landscape of the Hudson River Valley and explore the history, legends and folklore of the region that Washington Irving wove into an American archetype. From Sleepy Hollow to the Catskills, these travelogues inform as well as entertain, and act as a guide to this mystical region. Including Irving and Christmas ghost stories, a haunting in New Amsterdam and walking and dining in the footsteps of Poe in New York City. With over 100 original images, plus excerpts from Irving and other literary giants.

Download or read book Haunted Travels in the Hudson River Valley of Washington Irving written by Todd Atteberry and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the haunted landscape of the Hudson River Valley and explore the history, legends and folklore of the region that Washington Irving wove into an American archetype. From Sleepy Hollow to the Catskills, these travelogues inform as well as entertain, and act as a guide to this mystical region. Including Irving and Christmas ghost stories, a haunting in New Amsterdam and walking and dining in the footsteps of Poe in New York City. With over 100 original images, plus excerpts from Irving and other literary giants.

Download or read book Haunted Hudson Valley written by Cheri Farnsworth and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This part of New York, straddling the Hudson River from New York City to Albany, is rife with stories of the paranormal.

Download or read book Possessions written by Judith RICHARDSON and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cultural landscape of the Hudson River Valley is crowded with ghosts--the ghosts of Native Americans and Dutch colonists, of Revolutionary War soldiers and spies, of presidents, slaves, priests, and laborers. Possessions asks why this region just outside New York City became the locus for so many ghostly tales, and shows how these hauntings came to operate as a peculiar type of social memory whereby things lost, forgotten, or marginalized returned to claim possession of imaginations and territories. Reading Washington Irving's stories along with a diverse array of narratives from local folklore and regional writings, Judith Richardson explores the causes and consequences of Hudson Valley hauntings to reveal how ghosts both evolve from specific historical contexts and are conjured to serve the present needs of those they haunt. These tales of haunting, Richardson argues, are no mere echoes of the past but function in an ongoing, contentious politics of place. Through its tight geographical focus, Possessions illuminates problems of belonging and possessing that haunt the nation as a whole. Table of Contents: Introduction 1. "How Comes theHudson to this Unique Heritage?" 2. Irving's Web 3. The Colorful Career of a Ghost from Leeds 4. Local Characters 5. Possessing High Tor Mountain Epilogue: Hauntings without End Notes Index Reviews of this book: The author traces changing versions of several ghostly tales that mutated over time to reflect local conditions and controversies as well as national political issues like abolitionism. Richardson shows that, thanks to the Hudson Valley's long history of settlement, the 'legendizing impetus' created by Washington Irving, and the area's established position as a tourist destination, it inspired at least three sometimes overlapping traditions of hauntings: the 'aboriginal' Dutch and Indian hauntings, the Revolutionary War hauntings, and industrial hauntings, which are traced in Maxwell Anderson's High Tor (1937) and T. Coraghessan Boyle's World's End (1987). --J. J. Benardete, Choice Possessions is a rare and brilliant book that seamlessly combines history and literature--revealing how richly they can support one another. It is a great pleasure to read: both fluent and profound. --Alan Taylor, author of American Colonies and William Cooper's Town This is a lively, well-written, and engaging interdisciplinary study. Richardson pursues two main goals: probing in considerable detail a body of early national folklore and its modern revivals and testing some more general notions about the uses to which such lore is put in the periods when it is recovered, reshaped, and reinvigorated. It is smart without being condescending, locally inflected without exhibiting the least bit of piety - and, I think, quite suggestive for scholars looking at other domains far beyond the Hudson Valley. She gives us a way of understanding how the "local" has figured in the cultural construction of Americanness. --Wayne Franklin, author of Discoverers, Explorers, Settlers and The New World of James Fenimore Cooper

Download or read book Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow written by Washington Irving and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 1963 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world.

Download or read book Haunted Houses of the Hudson Valley written by Lynda Lee Macken and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The landscape of the Hudson River Valley lends itself to the likelihood that ghosts exist. Native Americans storied the territory with mysterious legends. Early Dutch settlers imprinted the strange new scenery with scary fables. Washington Irving's writings enlivened the folklore and added more fuel to the already smoldering supernatural mix. Where there's smoke there's fire, the saying goes, and surely there seems to be truth to the spookiness as evidenced by the plethora of haunted houses. Welcome to the haunted Hudson Valley where some ancient stone dwellings, church rectories, tourist hotels, military barracks, libraries, museums, mansions, and even a castle, claim a resident ghost - or two.

Download or read book The Legend of Sleepy Hollow written by Washington Irving and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the listless repose of the place, and the peculiar character of its inhabitants, who are descendants from the original Dutch settlers, this sequestered glen has long been known by name of Sleepy Hollow... A drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang over the land, and to pervade the very atmosphere. Washington Irving

Download or read book Legends and Lore of Sleepy Hollow and the Hudson Valley written by Jonathan Kruk and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-21 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A storyteller examines Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and the lore that inspired it, as well as other local legends of the Hudson Valley. The story of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman is one of America's best-known fables, but what other stories does the Hudson Valley hold? Imps cause mischief on the Hudson River, a white lady haunts Raven Rock, Major Andre’s ghost seeks redemption and real headless Hessians search for their severed skulls. These mysterious and spooky tales from the region’s past inspired Irving and continue to captivate the imagination to this day. “Kruk has been enchanting audiences with his dramatic, enticing storytelling ability for 20 years.” —Suzanne Rothberg, Tarrytown-Sleepy Hollow Patch

Download or read book Hauntings of the Hudson River Valley written by Vincent T. Dacquino and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007-11-15 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true stories behind three terrifying local legends—photos included. This book delves into three enigmatic folk legends of New York’s Hudson River Valley: the stories of Sybil Ludington, Chief Daniel Nimham, and George Denny. Each was the central figure in a dramatic series of events; each became enshrined in local lore for their actions; each has had their true story obscured; and each may have left behind a spiritual residue. Follow Vincent Dacquino as he interviews local experts, explores areas where hauntings may have occurred—such as Carmel’s legendary Smalley’s Inn—and digs deep into historical archives to open new windows into the lives, and possible afterlives, of these three mysterious characters.

Download or read book A Tour on the Prairies written by Washington Irving and published by London : J. Murray. This book was released on 1835 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Account of an expedition in Oct. and Nov. 1832 through a part of the unorganized Indian country now the state of Oklahoma.

Download or read book The Ghostly Tales of Sleepy Hollow written by Jessa Dean and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Adapted from Legends and lore of Sleepy Hallow and the Hudson Valley by Jonathan Kruk."

Download or read book The Old Croton Aqueduct written by and published by Hudson River Museum. This book was released on 1992 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon Gent written by Washington Irving and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Sketch Book written by Washington Irving and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Possessions written by Judith Ann Richardson and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Wolfert s roost and other papers written by Washington Irving and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Price written by Arthur Miller and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victor, a New York cop nearing retirement, moves among furniture in the disused attic of a house marked for demolition. Cabinets, desks, a damaged harp, an overstuffed armchair - the relics of a lost life of affluence he's finally come to sell. But when his brother Walter, who he hasn't spoken to in years, arrives, the talk stops being just about whether Victor's been offered a fair price for the furniture, and turns to the price that one and not the other of them paid when their father lost both his fortune and the will to go on ...