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Washington Irving’s The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow
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Sleepy Hollow isn’t just a scary story, it’s a portrait of how a place can shape the mind. I’m Jesse Cope, and for a couple episodes I’m taking a break from our normal approach to do an October reading of Washington Irving’s classic American ghost story, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Along the way, we touch on why Irving matters to American history and heritage, and I also point you toward the Arthur Rackham illustrations if you love old book art as much as I do.
We start in the Hudson River Valley, where Irving builds that famous drowsy mood and explains why the locals lean…
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