One of the earliest wholly American ghost stories published is Washington Irving’s “Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” Washington Irving was born in New York City in 1783 and moved with his family to ...

The actor tells PEOPLE his family has a connection to Washington Irving's story involving the Van Tassel family that the 1999 ...

The headless horseman of Sleepy Hollow haunts the American imagination each autumn. New York City native Washington Irving breathed life into the galloping ghost in 1819, when he penned "The ...

The town is best known as the setting of one of America’s seminal ghost stories, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving. However, Irving’s tale was written well before cars dominated ...

Setting a proper tone is critical in football and no team in the Hudson does it better than Sleepy Hollow ... onto the field by the very legend Washington Irving dreamed up in 1820.

Hugh Francis plays the famous role from the Washington Irving story in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., where the tale is set. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Friday. Today we’ll meet a man who will ...