Irving, Washington

Ichabod Crane, schoolmaster in the Hudson Valley, rivals with Brom Bones for the hand of his sweetheart, Katrina Van Tassel, and encounters the strange ghost of the Headless Horseman.

Two stories that have delighted readers of all ages ever since the day they were written. Purely American in origin, they have become part of world folklore.

As a result of drinking the liquor of some strange Dutchmen, Rip Van Winkle falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains and wakes up twenty years later to a much-changed world.