"Rip Van Winkle Bridge The Rip Van Winkle Bridge is a cantilever bridge spanning the Hudson River between Hudson, New York and Catskill, New York. The structure carries NY 23 across the river, connecting on the west side, US 9W and NY 385 with NY 9G on the east side. The bridge is named after the 1819 short story of the same name by Washington Irving, which mentions the cities of Hudson and Catskill. The bridge includes a new pedestrian walkway which was completed in 2018 on the south side of the bridge which is open from dawn to dusk."
"Rip Van Winkle (1921 film) Rip Van Winkle is a 1921 American silent fantasy film directed by Edward Ludwig and starring Thomas Jefferson and Milla Davenport in oft-filmed story made famous in the 19th century by Thomas Jefferson's father, Joseph Jefferson. T. Jefferson had starred in a 1914 feature-length version of the story which was re-released in 1921 just as this film was premiering. However, they should not be confused as the same film, they are two different films starring the same actor. Rip Van Winkle is an adventurer who comes across a group of strange individuals while roaming the"
"Catskill mountains. Upon drinking a strange concoction of theirs, he falls asleep and wakes up 20 years later. Rip Van Winkle (1921 film) Rip Van Winkle is a 1921 American silent fantasy film directed by Edward Ludwig and starring Thomas Jefferson and Milla Davenport in oft-filmed story made famous in the 19th century by Thomas Jefferson's father, Joseph Jefferson. T. Jefferson had starred in a 1914 feature-length version of the story which was re-released in 1921 just as this film was premiering. However, they should not be confused as the same film, they are two different films starring the same"
"Joseph Jefferson Joseph Jefferson, commonly known as Joe Jefferson (February 20, 1829 – April 23, 1905), was an American actor. He was the third actor of this name in a family of actors and managers, and one of the most famous of all 19th century American comedians. Jefferson was particularly well known for his adaptation and portrayal of Rip Van Winkle on the stage, reprising the role in several silent film adaptations. Jefferson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father was a scenic designer and actor and his mother an actress. He appeared onstage early in life, often being used"
"which is indistinguishable from death. In American fiction, the first story to deal with suspended animation is the tale of Rip Van Winkle, a short story by American author Washington Irving published in 1819 as well as the name of the story's fictional protagonist. In the story, a British subject in the American colonies wanders into the Catskill Mountains in the years before the American Revolutionary War, and finds a group of fairies, whose moonshine he drinks. He then falls asleep for 20 years, and returns to his village in what is now the United States, finding his home town"
"Washington Irving Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He is best known for his short stories ""Rip Van Winkle"" (1819) and ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"" (1820), both of which appear in his collection, ""The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent."" His historical works include biographies of Oliver Goldsmith, Islamic prophet Muhammad, and George Washington, as well as several histories of 15th-century Spain dealing with subjects such as Alhambra, Christopher Columbus, and the Moors. Irving served as the U.S. ambassador to"
"that the city and the whole Empire had become Christian. This Christian story is recounted by Islam and appears in a famous Sura of the Quran, Sura Al-Kahf. The version recalls a group of young monotheists escaping from persecution within a cave and emerging hundreds of years later. The story of ""Rip Van Winkle"" itself is widely thought to have been based on Johann Karl Christoph Nachtigal's German folktale ""Peter Klaus"", which is a shorter story set in a German village. It tells of a goatherd named Peter Klaus who goes looking for a lost goat. He finds some men"
"Sophie Gimber Kuhn Sophie Gimber Kuhn (8 November 1838 – 1867) was an English actress from Temple Bar, London who came to the United States on a visit with her parents. She performed at the Winter Garden Theatre in September 1860. Her first role was ""Nelly"" in ""All Hallow Eve"". In a production which opened on December 24, 1860, Kuhn played ""Lowenna"" in Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving. The adaptation at the Winter Garden was produced by Joseph Jefferson, who played the part of Rip Van Winkle. In 1863, along with Kate Denin and Lucille Western, Kuhn performed in"
"farming. The Cross Timbers is one of the least disturbed natural places on Earth, with some of the ancient post oak forest appearing just as it did 6,000 years ago. Washington Irving, the famous American author best known for ""Rip Van Winkle"" and ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"", visited Indian Territory in the autumn of 1832. Irving's journey began and ended in Fort Gibson, Oklahoma. He probably passed somewhere south of Pink on or about November 1, 1832 on the return trip to Fort Gibson. His travels were chronicled in ""A Tour of the Prairies"" in which he described the"
"memorial exhibit. In 1992, this painting was featured in the ""An Exhibit of American Painting, 1815–1865: from the M. and M. Karolik Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston."" ""Dismissal from School on an October Afternoon"" was not Inman's only work influenced by Irving. Inman was particularly interested in Rip van Winkle. In 1823, ""Rip Van Winkle Awakening from His Long Sleep"" was painted. Several years later Inman painted his ""James Henry Hackett as Rip Van Winkle"". There is also an undated sketch titled ""Rip Van Winkle"". James Cozzens commissioned the painting. Ownership soon passed to William P. Jones."
"The Rip Van Winkle Caper ""The Rip Van Winkle Caper"" is episode 60 of the American television anthology series ""The Twilight Zone"". It originally aired on April 21, 1961 on CBS. To escape the law after stealing $1 million worth of gold bricks (equal to $ million today) from a train on its way from Fort Knox to Los Angeles, a band of four thieves, led by scientist-mastermind Farwell, hide in a secret cave in Death Valley, California. Farwell explains to his three assistants that he has designed suspended animation chambers in which they will sleep for approximately 100 years,"
"a stage adaptation of East Lynne at the old Academy of Music in Manhattan. Sophie Gimber Kuhn Sophie Gimber Kuhn (8 November 1838 – 1867) was an English actress from Temple Bar, London who came to the United States on a visit with her parents. She performed at the Winter Garden Theatre in September 1860. Her first role was ""Nelly"" in ""All Hallow Eve"". In a production which opened on December 24, 1860, Kuhn played ""Lowenna"" in Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving. The adaptation at the Winter Garden was produced by Joseph Jefferson, who played the part of Rip"
"The Factual Entertainment Awards Golden Raspberry Awards Vanilla Ice Robert Matthew Van Winkle (born October 31, 1967), known professionally as Vanilla Ice, is an American rapper, actor, and television host. Born in South Dallas, and raised in Texas and South Florida, Ice released his debut album, ""Hooked"", in 1989 on Ichiban Records, before signing a contract with SBK Records, a record label of the EMI Group, which released a reformatted version of the album in 1990 under the title ""To the Extreme"", which contained Ice's best-known hits: ""Ice Ice Baby"" and a cover of ""Play That Funky Music"". ""Ice Ice"
"in the years before and after the American Revolutionary War in a village at the foot of New York's Catskill Mountains where Rip Van Winkle lives, a Dutch-American villager. One autumn day, Van Winkle wanders into the mountains with his dog Wolf to escape his wife's nagging. He hears his name called out and sees a man wearing antiquated Dutch clothing; he is carrying a keg up the mountain and requires help. Together, the men and Wolf proceed to a hollow in which Rip discovers the source of thunderous noises: a group of ornately dressed, silent, bearded men who are"
"Sunnyside (Tarrytown, New York) Sunnyside (1835) is a historic house on 10 acres (4 ha) along the Hudson River, in Tarrytown, New York. It was the home of the American author Washington Irving, best known for his short stories, such as ""Rip Van Winkle"" (1819) and ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"" (1820). This cottage-like estate, designated a National Historic Landmark in 1962, reflects Dutch Colonial Revival, Scottish Gothic, and Tudor Revival influences, with its wisteria-covered entrance and jagged crow-stepped gable. In some sense, Sunnyside began almost 200 years before Irving with Wolfert Acker (sometimes spelled Wolfert Eckert), a Dutch-American inhabitant"
"family: Fred Stone as Rip Van Winkle, Mrs. Fred Stone as Mrs. Willoughby, their daughter, Dorothy Stone, as Ripples, and in her stage debut, their other daughter, Paula Stone as Mary Willoughby. It included Dorothy’s future husband, Charles Collins as Richard Willoughby, and Eddie Foy, Jr. as Corporal Jack Sterling. The plot concerns Rip (Fred Stone), who is the great-great-grandson of the original Rip, and a great big liar. He is a serious drinker, like his forebear, and he drinks himself to sleep in the Catskills only to awake and find himself surrounded by dwarfs, who are bootleggers. They were"
"stories. Irving made several other trips up the Hudson as a teenager, including an extended visit to Johnstown, New York, where he passed through the Catskill Mountains region, the setting for ""Rip Van Winkle"". ""[O]f all the scenery of the Hudson"", Irving wrote later, ""the Kaatskill Mountains had the most witching effect on my boyish imagination"". The 19-year-old Irving began writing letters to the New York ""Morning Chronicle"" in 1802, submitting commentaries on the city's social and theater scene under the pseudonym Jonathan Oldstyle. The name, which purposely evoked the writer's Federalist leanings, was the first of many pseudonyms Irving"
"Vanilla Ice Robert Matthew Van Winkle (born October 31, 1967), known professionally as Vanilla Ice, is an American rapper, actor, and television host. Born in South Dallas, and raised in Texas and South Florida, Ice released his debut album, ""Hooked"", in 1989 on Ichiban Records, before signing a contract with SBK Records, a record label of the EMI Group, which released a reformatted version of the album in 1990 under the title ""To the Extreme"", which contained Ice's best-known hits: ""Ice Ice Baby"" and a cover of ""Play That Funky Music"". ""Ice Ice Baby"" was the first hip hop single"
"in 1809, where he wrote the satire, 'A History of New York'. Later, he wrote the short stories Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow which take place regionally. The Kinderhook school district is named ""Ichabod Crane"". for the Irving character, Ichabod Crane, which was based on the original Kinderhook schoolmaster named Jesse Merwin. Irving and Merwin became friends in Kinderhook, where they boarded together at the Van Ness home, and the two friends continued a pen-pal correspondence for thirty years. The Columbia County Historical Society (New York) owns the original Kinderhook Schoolhouse named after the Irving character"
"all is well ..."", and the camera pans back to the cuckoo clock where Rip, who has apparently muzzled the cuckoo, is finally getting the sleep he was needing all that time. The story takes place in a library, with all the characters coming to life from well known works of fiction, both classical and modern. Rip Van Winkle is the center of interest, as he cannot continue sleeping with the noise. Finally he gets ""The Hurricane"" to blow all the noise-makers back into the covers of their books again, and he goes peacefully to sleep. The final titles show"
"The futuristic car carrying the couple who find the dying Farwell is a leftover prop, somewhat modified, from MGM's 1956 film ""Forbidden Planet"". The Rip Van Winkle Caper ""The Rip Van Winkle Caper"" is episode 60 of the American television anthology series ""The Twilight Zone"". It originally aired on April 21, 1961 on CBS. To escape the law after stealing $1 million worth of gold bricks (equal to $ million today) from a train on its way from Fort Knox to Los Angeles, a band of four thieves, led by scientist-mastermind Farwell, hide in a secret cave in Death Valley,"
"that the American Revolution has taken place, and nearly gets himself into trouble with the townspeople until one elderly woman recognizes him as the long-lost Rip Van Winkle. King George's portrait on the inn's sign has been replaced with one of George Washington. Van Winkle learns that most of his friends were killed fighting in the American Revolution. He is also disturbed to find another man called Rip Van Winkle; it is his son, now grown up. Van Winkle also discovers that his wife died some time ago but is not saddened by the news. He learns that the men"
"Winthrop (comic strip) Winthrop is an American syndicated newspaper comic strip that was published between 1966 and 1994, created and produced by cartoonist Dick Cavalli. The series—which derived its comedy from a group of children's nonchalantly world-wise observations—evolved from Cavalli's earlier strip, ""Morty Meekle"", which featured adult characters. Gag cartoonist Dick Cavalli—whose work appeared in magazines including ""The Saturday Evening Post"" and ""Collier's""—had achieved such popularity by 1956 that ""Writer's Digest"" observed he had ""risen to the top faster than any other cartoonist in the business."" On January 9 of that year, Cavalli launched Newspaper Enterprise Association's syndicated comic strip"
"Rip Van Ronkel. According to these witnesses, Lemmon and Reeves had been dining and drinking earlier in the evening in the company of writer Condon, who was ghostwriting an autobiography of prizefighter Archie Moore. Reeves and Lemmon had an argument at the restaurant in front of Condon, and the three of them returned home. However, Lemmon stated in interviews with Reeves's biographer Jim Beaver that she and Reeves had not accompanied friends to the restaurant but rather to wrestling matches. Contemporaneous news items indicate that Reeves's friend Gene LeBell was wrestling that night—yet LeBell's own recollections are that he did"
"trying to bail out the family firm financially but eventually had to declare bankruptcy. With no job prospects, he continued writing throughout 1817 and 1818. In the summer of 1817, he visited Walter Scott, beginning a lifelong personal and professional friendship. Irving composed the short story ""Rip Van Winkle"" overnight while staying with his sister Sarah and her husband, Henry van Wart in Birmingham, England, a place that inspired other works, as well. In October 1818, Irving's brother William secured for Irving a post as chief clerk to the United States Navy and urged him to return home. Irving turned"
"diversify hip hop by introducing it to a mainstream audience. Robert Van Winkle, better known by his stage name Vanilla Ice, wrote ""Ice Ice Baby"" in 1983 at the age of 16, basing its lyrics upon his experiences in South Florida. The lyrics describe a shooting and Van Winkle's rhyming skills. The chorus of ""Ice Ice Baby"" originates from the signature chant of the national African American fraternity Alpha Phi Alpha. Of the song's lyrics, Van Winkle stated in a 2001 interview that ""If you released 'Ice Ice Baby' today, it would fit in today's lyrical respect among peers, you"
"of the house stands at Liberty Square at The Walt Disney World Resort's Magic Kingdom; the building serves as a quick service restaurant. Notes Bibliography Further reading Sunnyside (Tarrytown, New York) Sunnyside (1835) is a historic house on 10 acres (4 ha) along the Hudson River, in Tarrytown, New York. It was the home of the American author Washington Irving, best known for his short stories, such as ""Rip Van Winkle"" (1819) and ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"" (1820). This cottage-like estate, designated a National Historic Landmark in 1962, reflects Dutch Colonial Revival, Scottish Gothic, and Tudor Revival influences, with"
"Home for Incurables in June 1935, survived by a daughter and grandson. Annie Mack Annie Mack Berlein (c. 1850 - June 22, 1935) was an Irish-born American actress. She appeared in productions opposite leading actors of her day including Edwin Booth and Joseph Jefferson (for three years in his run as Rip Van Winkle), and also appeared in a number of Harrigan and Hart productions where she played the leading female role. She retired from the stage in 1928 after fifty-five years of acting. She was married to actor Edward J. Mack. Berlein was her maiden name but it was"
"the eagle's left claw in the Great Seal of the United States. Any review of the legacy of New Netherland is complicated by the enormous impact of Washington Irving's satirical ""A History of New York"" and its famous fictional author Diedrich Knickerbocker. Irving's romantic vision of an enlightened, languid Dutch yeomanry dominated the popular imagination about the colony since its publication in 1809. To this day, many mistakenly believe that Irving's two most famous short stories, ""Rip Van Winkle"" and ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"", are based on actual folk tales of Dutch peasants in the Hudson Valley. The tradition"
"one of the most celebrated characters of the stage in the 19th century. Jefferson would continue acting in this show for 40 years, playing little more than the single character of Rip Van Winkle. He then returned to America in August 1866. Jefferson was able to take an American play and characters to places like Australia and England and create success out of them. As John Maguire would later write, ""It was then that America greeted the return of the wanderer, proud of the victory of an American actor in an American play in foreign lands. This fame added to"
"Rip's Dream Rip's Dream ( ) is a 1905 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès. ""Rip's Dream"" is based on two sources: the original ""Rip Van Winkle"" story by Washington Irving, and the 1882 operetta version of ""Rip Van Winkle"" (with music by Robert Planquette and libretto by Henri Meilhac, Philippe Gille, and Henry Brougham Farnie). Two elements, the mysterious snake and the village idiot, are Méliès's own creations. Méliès himself plays Rip. His son André appears as a village child carrying a large lantern. (Rip's friends' lanterns are in fact Bastille Day celebratory lanterns with the initials RF,"
"comics for the children's magazines issued by De Spaarnestad. At the time Martin Branner's ""Perry Winkle"" was very popular under its Dutch translation of ""Sjors"" and even inspired his own eponymous magazine. When the original American comic strip gradually started to put more focus on Perry's sister, Winnie Winkle, business deals were made with King Features syndicate to create a local version of Branner's character, ""Sjors"", to let the popular series continue with its focus on Sjors. In 1938 Piët became the creator of ""Sjors van de Rebellenclub"" (""Sjors of the Rebel's Club""), as the series was popularly titled. Gradually"
"a fictional work by Washington Irving loosely based on folklore. Nevertheless, Urashima has been labeled the ""Japanese Rip van Winkle"", even in academic folkloristic literature. ""Urashima"" is also a Japanese metaphor similar to ""Rip Van Winkle"" for someone who feels lost in a world that has changed in their absence. This pair of tales may not be the closest matching among the motif group. Writing in the 19th century, Lafcadio Hearn suggested that Irving wrote another piece called ""The Adelantado of the Seven Cities"", based on Portuguese tradition, which bore an even stronger resemblance to Urashima. Japanese art collector William"