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Celebrating “The Legend” Bicentennial: What Washington Irving Means to Me

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  by Richard Slingerland, Tarrytown Village Administrator –  As many kids probably first experienced folklore and legends, my first experience with Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip Van Winkle” were through Walt Disney. Growing up in Yonkers, with my grandparents living in Irvington at the time, my family provided me with early experiences reading his stories, visiting Sunnyside and listening to the Disney LP that had Washington Irving’s stories and songs on it.  It was a key […]

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