TONIGHT "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" aka the "Headless Horseman"
The
story is set circa 1790 in the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town, in a
secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow. It tells of Ichabod Crane, a
sycophantic, lean, lanky, and extremely superstitious schoolmaster from
Connecticut, who competes with Abraham "Brom Bones" Van Brunt, the town
rowdy, for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter and
sole child of a wealthy farmer. As Crane leaves a party he attended at
the Van Tassel home on an autumn night, he is pursued by the Headless
Horseman, who is supposedly the ghost of a Hessian trooper who had his
head shot off by a stray cannonball during "some nameless battle" of the
American Revolutionary War, and who "rides forth to the scene of battle
in nightly quest of his head".
Join us as Bear Silvershade and Derry
McMahon read this favorite fall tale aloud (and no, it is not the same
as the new tv show!) Live in Voice.
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