![]() ![]() SIMON: And one of those stories is, in fact, forgive me, a headless horseman, right?īRADLEY: That's right. But another was Tarrytown, where Irving stayed with family, friends and first heard some of the stories that would make their way into the legend. And so Greenwich Village was one of the suburbs to which people fled. It only extended as far as Chambers Street. Of course, Manhattan at that time was very tiny. And he moved briefly to Tarrytown, to the Tarrytown area in 1798 during a yellow fever epidemic that gripped Manhattan. Irving is a born and bred New Yorker - was, I should say, a born and bred New Yorker. SIMON: So this story is kind of the product of a previous pandemic, isn't it?īRADLEY: It absolutely is. Thank you so much for being with us.ĮLIZABETH BRADLEY: I'm very happy to speak with you. We're joined now from Tarrytown, N.Y., the setting of "The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow," by historian Elizabeth Bradley, who's written about this. But on a dark autumn night, he's scared away by the Headless Horseman, who may or may not have been a rival suitor, but he wields a pumpkin as his severed head. We meet him in "The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow" when a gangly schoolteacher named Ichabod Crane tries to court a wealthy young woman. Two hundred years ago, Washington Irving created a character who's haunted generations ever since, the Headless Horseman. ![]()
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