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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 200th Anniversary
Elsbeth Lindner — May 12, 2019


It’s going to be the biggest, brightest, lengthiest local celebration Westchester has seen in a very long while, and you’re invited.

Starting with the Sleepy Hollow Lit Fest on May 18, the villages of Sleepy Hollow, Tarrytown and Irvington are launching an eighteen-month series of events called The Legend Bicentennial, aka the two-hundredth birthday of the publication of Washington
Irving’s story collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., which includes his classic tale “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”

“We are proud to kick off the anniversary with a festival that will feature 100 authors signing books and giving presentations. It’s the perfect way to honor an author so ingrained in the cultural landscape of the Hudson Valley,”
says Laura Scott
Schaefer, of the Lit Fest Steering Committee.

Another major highlight will be the Sleepy Hollow International Film Festival, from October 10 to 13. “An outstanding celebration of genre cinema in the historic cradle of the American supernatural,” it’s the brainchild of, among others, two locals,
Matt Verboy and Dale Cunningham from Somers. The schedule is packed with screenings, competitions, special guests, cast and crew reunions, and showings of Disney’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, celebrating its seventieth anniversary, and Tim Burton’s
Sleepy Hollow, enjoying a twentieth birthday in 2019. The River Journal is the Official Media Partner of the Film Fest. You can keep up with all the latest developments at www.sleepyhollowfilmfest.com...

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It's also the 200th anniversary of "Rip van Winkle." (One source says that was published on June 23rd.)


Lenona.

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