Legends and Lore of the Hudson Highlands
Author: Jonathan Kruk
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1609498747
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Discover the fascinating legends of the Hudson Highlands region in New York.
Author: Jonathan Kruk
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1609498747
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Discover the fascinating legends of the Hudson Highlands region in New York.
Author: Jonathan Kruk
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2011-07-21
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 1614233195
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A storyteller examines Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and the lore that inspired it, as well as other local legends of the Hudson Valley. The story of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman is one of America's best-known fables, but what other stories does the Hudson Valley hold? Imps cause mischief on the Hudson River, a white lady haunts Raven Rock, Major Andre’s ghost seeks redemption and real headless Hessians search for their severed skulls. These mysterious and spooky tales from the region’s past inspired Irving and continue to captivate the imagination to this day. “Kruk has been enchanting audiences with his dramatic, enticing storytelling ability for 20 years.” —Suzanne Rothberg, Tarrytown-Sleepy Hollow Patch
Author: Frances F. Dunwell
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780231070430
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Discusses the area's folklore and history, its portrayal in art, the role of West Point as a gateway to America, and the creation of Bear Mountain Park.
Author: Judith RICHARDSON
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-30
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780674042704
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The cultural landscape of the Hudson River Valley is crowded with ghosts--the ghosts of Native Americans and Dutch colonists, of Revolutionary War soldiers and spies, of presidents, slaves, priests, and laborers. Possessions asks why this region just outside New York City became the locus for so many ghostly tales, and shows how these hauntings came to operate as a peculiar type of social memory whereby things lost, forgotten, or marginalized returned to claim possession of imaginations and territories. Reading Washington Irving's stories along with a diverse array of narratives from local folklore and regional writings, Judith Richardson explores the causes and consequences of Hudson Valley hauntings to reveal how ghosts both evolve from specific historical contexts and are conjured to serve the present needs of those they haunt. These tales of haunting, Richardson argues, are no mere echoes of the past but function in an ongoing, contentious politics of place. Through its tight geographical focus, Possessions illuminates problems of belonging and possessing that haunt the nation as a whole. Table of Contents: Introduction 1. "How Comes theHudson to this Unique Heritage?" 2. Irving's Web 3. The Colorful Career of a Ghost from Leeds 4. Local Characters 5. Possessing High Tor Mountain Epilogue: Hauntings without End Notes Index Reviews of this book: The author traces changing versions of several ghostly tales that mutated over time to reflect local conditions and controversies as well as national political issues like abolitionism. Richardson shows that, thanks to the Hudson Valley's long history of settlement, the 'legendizing impetus' created by Washington Irving, and the area's established position as a tourist destination, it inspired at least three sometimes overlapping traditions of hauntings: the 'aboriginal' Dutch and Indian hauntings, the Revolutionary War hauntings, and industrial hauntings, which are traced in Maxwell Anderson's High Tor (1937) and T. Coraghessan Boyle's World's End (1987). --J. J. Benardete, Choice Possessions is a rare and brilliant book that seamlessly combines history and literature--revealing how richly they can support one another. It is a great pleasure to read: both fluent and profound. --Alan Taylor, author of American Colonies and William Cooper's Town This is a lively, well-written, and engaging interdisciplinary study. Richardson pursues two main goals: probing in considerable detail a body of early national folklore and its modern revivals and testing some more general notions about the uses to which such lore is put in the periods when it is recovered, reshaped, and reinvigorated. It is smart without being condescending, locally inflected without exhibiting the least bit of piety - and, I think, quite suggestive for scholars looking at other domains far beyond the Hudson Valley. She gives us a way of understanding how the "local" has figured in the cultural construction of Americanness. --Wayne Franklin, author of Discoverers, Explorers, Settlers and The New World of James Fenimore Cooper
Author: William T. Howell
Publisher: Walking News
Published: 1982-03-01
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780915850037
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Wallace Bruce
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Published: 2013-12
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9781314944303
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author: Jessa Dean
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 1467198218
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Adapted from Legends and lore of Sleepy Hallow and the Hudson Valley by Jonathan Kruk."
Author: John B. McCabe
Publisher:
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9780806206745
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