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Sleepy Hollow By Firelight
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A good ghost story doesn’t start with a scream. It starts with a place that feels a little too quiet, a little too sure of its old tales, and a little too ready to believe. That’s why we’re reading Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow aloud, straight through, as a slice of American folklore and early American history that still shapes how we picture Halloween in the United States.
We begin with a short word of gratitude and prayer, then step into Irving’s Hudson River Valley where Dutch customs linger, Revolutionary War memory hangs in the background, and…
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