Sleepy Hollow

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The Legend

Sleepy Hollow is a village in the town of Mount Pleasant, in Westchester County, New York.  The village is known internationally through “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, an 1820 short story about the local area and its infamous specter, the Headless Horseman, written by Washington Irving, who lived in Tarrytown and is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.

The “Legend” relates the tale of Ichabod Crane, a lean, lanky and extremely superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut. Throughout his stay at Sleepy Hollow, Crane is able to make himself both “useful and agreeable” to the families that he lodges with. He occasionally assists with light farm work, helping to make hay, mend fences, caring for numerous farm animals, and cutting firewood. Besides his more dominant role as the Schoolmaster, Ichabod Crane also assists the various mothers of the town by helping to take care of their young children, taking on a more “gentle and ingratiating” role. Crane is also quite popular among the women of the town for his education and his talent for “carrying the whole budget of local gossip,” which makes him a welcomed sight within female circles.

 As a firm believer in witchcraft and the like, Crane has an unequaled “appetite for the marvelous,” which is only increased by his stay in “the spell-bound region” of Sleepy Hollow. A source of “fearful pleasure” for Crane is to visit the Old Dutch wives and listen to their “marvelous tales of ghosts and goblins,” haunted locations, and the tales of the Headless Horseman, or the “Galloping Hessian of the Hollow, as they sometimes called him.” Throughout the story, Ichabod Crane competes with Abraham “Brom Bones” Van Brunt, the town rowdy and local hero, for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter and sole child of wealthy farmer Baltus Van Tassel. Ichabod Crane, a Yankee and an outsider, sees marriage to Katrina as a means of procuring Van Tassel’s extravagant wealth. Brom, unable to force Ichabod into a physical showdown to settle things, plays a series of pranks on the superstitious schoolmaster. The tension among the three continues for some time, and is soon brought to a head. On a placid autumn night, the ambitious Crane attends a harvest party at the Van Tassels’ homestead. He dances, partakes in the feast, and listens to ghostly legends told by Brom and the locals, but his true aim is to propose to Katrina after the guests leave. His intentions, however, are ill-fated, as he fails to secure Katrina’s hand.

Following his rejected suit, Ichabod rides home on his temperamental plough horse named Gunpowder, “heavy-hearted and crestfallen” through the woods between Van Tassel’s farmstead and the farmhouse in Sleepy Hollow where he is quartered at the time. As he passes several purportedly haunted spots, his active imagination is engorged by the ghost stories told at Baltus’ harvest party. After nervously passing a lightning-stricken tulip tree purportedly haunted by the ghost of British spy Major André, Ichabod encounters a cloaked rider at an intersection in a menacing swamp. Unsettled by his fellow traveler’s eerie size and silence, the teacher is horrified to discover that his companion’s head is not on his shoulders, but on his saddle.

In a frenzied race to the bridge adjacent to the Old Dutch Burying Ground, where the Hessian is said to “vanish, according to rule, in a flash of fire and brimstone” before crossing it, Ichabod rides for his life, desperately goading Gunpowder down the Hollow. However, while Crane and Gunpowder are able to cross the bridge ahead of the ghoul, Ichabod turns back in horror to see the monster rear his horse and hurl his severed head directly at him with a fierce motion. The schoolmaster attempts to dodge, but is too late; the missile strikes his head and sends him tumbling headlong into the dust from his horse.

The next morning, Gunpowder is found eating the grass at his master’s gate, but Ichabod has mysteriously disappeared from the area, leaving Katrina to later marry Brom Bones, who was said “to look exceedingly knowing whenever the story of Ichabod was related”. Indeed, the only relics of the schoolmaster’s flight are his discarded hat, Gunpowder’s trampled saddle, and a mysterious shattered pumpkin. Although the true nature of both the Headless Horseman and Ichabod’s disappearance that night are left open to interpretation, the story implies that the Horseman was really Brom (an extremely agile rider) in disguise, using a Jack-o’-lantern as a false head, and suggests that Crane survived the fall from Gunpowder and immediately fled Sleepy Hollow in horror, never to return but to prosper elsewhere, or was killed by Brom (which may be unlikely, since Brom was said to have “more mischief than ill-will in his composition”). Irving’s narrator concludes the story, however, by stating that the old Dutch wives continue to promote the belief that Ichabod was “spirited away by supernatural means”, and a legend develops around his disappearance and sightings of his melancholy spirit.

In a Postscript (sometimes unused in certain editions), the narrator states the circumstances in which he heard the story from an old gentleman “at a Corporation meeting at the ancient city of Manhattoes“, who didn’t “believe one-half of it [himself].”

The Village

Located 25 miles north of New York City along the eastern shore of the Hudson River, The Village of Sleepy Hollow offers a unique blend of natural beauty and urban amenities along with world-renowned historic landmarks and modern attributes.

While an unusual name, “Sunnyside” is a name for a home in Sleepy Hollow. Washington Irving took over ownership of the structure in the year of 1835. At that time, it was nothing more than a small, ordinary cottage. He and his family worked hard to renovate the structure, and took great pride in the final project. This home is a beautifully designed structure that sits on the bank of a river – the Hudson to be exact. You can get a good look at the river by a small, secret path that leads from the home to the banks of the river. It has been said that apparitions have appeared, doing various tasks. It is believed that the nieces of Irving are often seen tidying up the home. Many have claimed to have seen Irving himself.

If you would like to visit the grave of the famous Washington Irving, you can do so at the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. While there, you can also discover the final resting places of the following famous individuals: Andrew Carnegie, William Rockefeller, Walter Chrysler, and even the notable Elizabeth Arden. It has been said, on more than one occasion, that an apparition has been seen among the graves. Many who have walked through the cemetery often express the fact that they hear silent whispering which cannot be explained.

Old Dutch Church and Burial Ground – The burial grounds that are located at the Old Dutch Church are said to be among one of the oldest ones in all of the United States. It is said that the popular “Headless Horseman” can be clearly seen making his route through and around these burial grounds. When visiting here, you can see some very popular names on the grave stones. These include Eleanor Van Tassel Brush, who Washington Irving used a personality called “Katrina” from his story. Abraham Martling, who was reflected as the character “Brom Bones” can also be discovered here.

Patriot’s Park – If you go to the area that is between the cities of Sleepy Hollow, and Tarrytown, you will discover a park. During the American Revolutionary War, the Americans captured a soldier that was of Hessian decent. He was immediately executed by way of beheading. An apparition that lacks a head is often said to linger throughout the park grounds. Irving took this legend of the soldier that is headless for his tale.

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  1. under the guise of a 90 minute Spanish lesson teacher gives out social wheel/privilege
    experiment bullshit…then tells admin and teachers afterward it was “optional”–only students didn’t feel it was optional at all. and the inline guide about what that day’s lesson was about was completely different. parents gotta be vigilant with this crap!
    FTA
    Earlier this month, spies and sleuths walked through the doors of the Central Intelligence Agency’s top-secret headquarters here in the D.C. suburbs for a day of work fighting foreign threats to the United States. Around the corner, on Georgetown Pike, teens shuffled through the doors of classroom No. 1208 at Langley High School for 90 minutes of Spanish II.

    “Hola!” the teacher said to them, as they started class.

    What the teens got instead of a normal tutorial in Spanish was a surprise lesson on “Identidad,” or “Identity,” with students handed a two-page worksheet created by the University of Michigan’s Program on Intergroup Relations. It included a list of “Social Identity Groups,” not teaching the students about Spanish-language communities, but probing personal, intrusive, and even shaming questions right off a Buzzword Bingo card in identity politics, and asking them to pen their self-identities into a “Social Identity Wheel.”

    https://thefederalist.com/2022/10/28/virginia-students-no-comprendo-why-spanish-class-is-spent-identifying-sexuality-body-size-and-privilege/

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  2. “Great Crested Sunrise”. Jose Luis Ruiz Jiménez / Wildlife Photographer of the Year

    “Dancing in the Snow”

    Qiang Guo / Wildlife Photographer of the Year

    “Lynx Cub Licking”

    Antonio Liebanna Navarro / Wildlife Photographer of the Year

    “The eagle and the bear”

    Jeroen Hoekendijk / Wildlife Photographer of the Year

    “Bonds of love”

    Peter Delaney / Wildlife Photographer of the Year

    “Stay close”

    Maxime Aliaga / Wildlife Photographer of the Year

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  4. more things that don’t add up yet..

    Ernest Marsalis
    October 28, 2022 2:17 pm

    A wellness check? The police responded to a wellness check at 2:20 in the morning? Someone trying to get hold of PP at that time?
    Why did the police spokesman give props to the 911 operator? Payoff?
    According to the law dictionary:

    A welfare check, also known as a wellness check, is when police stop by a person’s home to make sure they are okay. Requests for welfare checks are made by friends, family, and neighbors, typically after someone unexpectedly stops answer their phone or getting in touch with others.

    So again, who called the cops at 2:20 a.m. PDT to try and get hold of PP?

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    1. fka Serena
      October 28, 2022 2:33 pm
      Reply to Ernest Marsalis

      That does seem odd. It couldn’t have been someone who witnessed the attacker breaking in else they would have called it in as a burglary or break-in. I’m wondering if it was someone remote. Were Nancy and Paul on the phone at that time? Or was Paul on the phone with someone else and he stepped away and the person heard the attacker?

      Can you make a FOIA request to hear the 911 call?
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      1. Waymore
        October 28, 2022 2:18 pm

        Elder Abuse is one of the charges.

        Elder abuse is any action or inaction that harms, endangers, or causes distress to a person over the age of 60 or 65 and is done intentionally by someone who is known to the victim and in a position of trust.

        Paul and his attacker knew each other.

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      1. they had better security than that…one of their glass doors was broken. an alarm would be sent–not a wellness check–and the police reported they received a wellness check request…
        not adding up

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  6. HAHAHAHAA

    Deplorable PatriotOnline
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    Coyote
    October 28, 2022 14:11

    It’s happening.

    An entire team of data engineers at Twitter were just fired and spotted walking out of HQ: “Daniel tells us he owns a Tesla and doesn’t know how he’s going to make payments.” https://t.co/KTt57JhuAa

    — Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) October 28, 2022

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  7. Good NEWS!!!

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    Coyote
    October 28, 2022 15:06

    🇺🇸ARIZONA’S KARI LAKE ENDORSES DOUG MASTRIANO FOR PA GOVERNOR🇺🇸 #Doug4Gov @KariLake pic.twitter.com/09QzIaQdEw

    — Doug Mastriano (@dougmastriano) October 28, 2022

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  9. 66 FREAKING YEARS?????

    Troublemaker10
    Troublemaker10
    October 28, 2022 3:27 pm

    His name was Seth Rich.
    What are they hiding?

    *******

    FBI Asks Court for 66 Years to Release Information From Seth Rich’s Computer

    Excerpt:

    The FBI is asking a U.S. court to reverse its order that it produce information from Seth Rich’s laptop computer. If the court does not, the bureau wants 66 years to produce the information.

    https://www.theepochtimes.com/fbi-asks-court-for-66-years-to-release-information-from-seth-richs-computer_4826785.html

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  10. haven’t watched video but from the still photo–looks like more glass on the outside. if the perp was breaking IN, more glass would be inside, no??

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  13. Entire Article @ ReclaimThe Net:

    “Trudeau invoked Emergencies Act despite deal to end protests, hearing finds — The act is legally only allowed to be invoked when legal means have been exhausted.”

    During the ongoing public hearings into the use of the Emergencies Act, it was revealed that the Freedom Convoy organizers, the federal government, and police were on the verge of reaching a deal to end the protests before the government invoked the authoritarian act anyway.

    The Emergencies Act allowed the government to freeze the bank accounts of the civil liberties protesters.

    Freedom Convoy’s counsel Brendan Miller asked Ontario Provincial Police Inspector Marcel Beaudin what happened to the deal to end the protest peacefully that was proposed on February 11. Beaudin said that he felt the proposal was “dead in the water,” and it was probably not presented to the federal government before the EA was invoked.
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    Miller said the deal was presented to the federal government, they just ignored it. Miller asked: “Did you know that meeting was at 3:30 pm and that it was with cabinet and that it was the incident response group of the political executive meeting and that your proposal was provided to them?” Beaudin said, “No.” “It was. I can tell you that. And then they invoked the Emergencies Act,” Miller responded.

    A memo outlining the deal read: “The deal would be: Leave the protest and denounce unlawful activity and you will be heard.” Freedom Convoy organizers would have honored their end of the deal by removing over 100 trucks from residential streets and would remove more as negotiations went on.

    “The recommendation was essentially, the political branch of the Government of Canada would agree to a meeting with the protesters but there would be certain conditions to that and they would have to denounce anything unlawful and get out of downtown Ottawa,” said Miller.

    The invocation of the EA before attempting to reach a deal is a potential violation of the EA, which states that it should only be used when there is a situation “that cannot be effectively dealt with under any other law of Canada.”

    The EA was revoked a few days after it was invoked. However, within those few days, the police had forcefully removed peaceful protesters from the streets and the bank accounts of supporters of the protest frozen.”

    https://reclaimthenet.org/trudeau-invoked-emergencies-act-despite-deal-to-end-protests/

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  14. EXCERPT: “More questions — The authors’ conclusion that symptoms are signals of vaccine effectiveness is not only unfounded and reckless, but it also puts them in a difficult position. If females had systemic reactions more frequently, aren’t they admitting that males are less protected?

    If systemic symptoms occurred more with Moderna than with Pfizer, doesn’t that mean that Pfizer’s formulation isn’t as effective? What about those who had no symptoms after the jab? Should they be worried that they aren’t as protected?

    Dr. William Schaffner, a professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and medical director of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, told CNN:

    “I don’t want a patient to tell me that, ‘Golly, I didn’t get any reaction, my arm wasn’t sore, I didn’t have fever. The vaccine didn’t work.’ I don’t want that conclusion to be out there. …

    “This is more to reassure people who have had a reaction that that’s their immune system responding, actually in a rather good way, to the vaccine, even though it has caused them some discomfort.”

    In other words, there is apparently no downside to getting the COVID-19 vaccine. If you didn’t suffer any symptoms, good! If you did, that’s good, too. Schaffner’s sanguine framing of the “discomfort” that occurs after inoculation may be acceptable to some. I wonder how it sits with the 1 in 4 vaccine recipients who either were unable to participate in daily activities or missed work or school, or the nearly 8 in 100 who sought medical attention after vaccination?”

    https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/systemic-reactions-covid-vaccines-sold-as-feature/

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  15. EXCERPT: “According to The Epoch Times, House Republican representatives Chip Roy (Texas) and Andy Biggs (Ariz.) sent a letter to GOP leaders calling for investigations into “politically motivated” decisions made by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) during the Covid-19 pandemic.

    The letter was sent in response to the recent CDC recommendation of adding Covid-19 vaccines to the child and adolescent immunization schedules, despite the vaccines still being under emergency use authorization for some children.

    The Times reported: “Roy and Biggs, joined by Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) and Dan Bishop (R-N.C.) called on Republican leaders to add the issue to a growing list of potential investigations if Republicans take the House. The letter is addressed to Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) and Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.).”

    The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted unanimously during an October 20 meeting to add Covid-19 vaccines to the standard immunization schedule for children. The members agreed to add the Moderna, Pfizer, and Novavax vaccines to the 2023 schedules, asserting that the vaccines, despite waning effectiveness, can still prevent severe disease. Technically the vote was only a recommendation, but that recommendation is highly likely to be approved by the CDC.

    One of the advisors, Dr. Matthew Daley, said: “We view this as COVID is here to stay. When I think about the routine immunization schedule as a pediatrician, I think of it as an opportunity to prevent serious disease and death. And if something is added to the schedule, it’s because I feel like the benefits continue to strongly outweigh the risks.”

    Biggs and Roy warned that the ACIP decision will continue to undermine Americans’ freedom and protect vaccine manufacturers from legal liability. “This decision is concerning for multiple reasons and will only put the well-being of American families with school-aged children at further risk of their healthcare freedom while protecting pharmaceutical companies from any liability related to vaccine injuries,” the lawmakers wrote.

    The main purpose of the letter was to ensure that the CDC would be added to a growing list of federal agencies to be investigated for misconduct by Republicans once they take control of the house in 2023:

    If Republicans are once again entrusted with the majority of the House of Representatives, congressional committees with oversight of the CDC should immediately begin investigations, host hearings, and hold accountable those involved in politically motivated decisions throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. This latest decision is but just one example.”

    https://thenewamerican.com/republican-lawmakers-call-for-investigation-into-politically-motivated-cdc-decisions/

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  21. I am adding a short daily prayer to the board. I would invite each of you, if you wish, to also add one or maybe two of your own liking. I do not want to stifle anyone but please limit yourself to one or two religious postings. here’s one I found that I liked.

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