"and issued as a 2-disc 78 rpm album No. DA-432 (with the records numbered 40003-4). The running time was 12 minutes 14 seconds and the music was supplied by Wilbur Hatch and His Orchestra. The directors were Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee. Ichabod – The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Ichabod – The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a studio album of phonograph records by Bing Crosby released in 1949 narrating the famous Washington Irving story of ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"". Crosby had recorded the soundtrack for the ""Ichabod"" portion of the Walt Disney animated feature ""The Adventures of"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"essays. It included the two stories by which Irving is best remembered, ""Rip Van Winkle"" and ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"". Many contemporary critics in England and Scotland praised the book as an original, distinctly American contribution to literarure. A century and more afterward, critics observed the influences that Irving shared with his Romantic contemporaries, in particular the influence of Sir Walter Scott, and Irving's own original contributions to literary form. At the outset, Hazlitt, on the other hand, restricts the scope of his examination of Irving's ""Geoffrey Crayon"" writings, reserving judgement about the material set in America, and choosing"
"tales including ""Rip van Winkle"" (1819) and ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"" (1820). Nathaniel Hawthorne published the first part of his ""Twice-Told Tales"" in 1837. Edgar Allan Poe wrote his tales of mystery and imagination between 1832 and 1849. Classic stories are ""The Fall of the House of Usher"", ""The Tell-Tale Heart"", ""The Cask of Amontillado"", ""The Pit and the Pendulum"", and the first detective story, ""The Murders in the Rue Morgue"". In ""The Philosophy of Composition"" (1846) Poe argued that a literary work should be short enough for a reader to finish in one sitting. In Germany, the first"
"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"
"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 Christian legend of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, in which seven Christians flee into a cave during pagan times in order to escape persecution, but fall asleep and wake up 360 years later to discover, to their astonishment, that the Roman Empire is now predominately Christian. The American author Washington Irving's short story ""Rip Van Winkle"", first published in 1819 in his collection of short stories ""The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent."", is about a man in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who falls asleep on one of the Catskill Mountains and wakes up twenty years later"
"composed a second opera, ""Rip Van Winkle"" (also with a libretto by MacKaye), but died before it was performed in 1920 in Chicago. One obituary asserted that he proved that ""the American stage was not dependent upon foreign composers."" Reginald De Koven Henry Louis Reginald De Koven (April 3, 1859January 16, 1920) was an American music critic and prolific composer, particularly of comic operas. De Koven was born in Middletown, Connecticut, and moved to Europe in 1870, where he received the majority of his education. He graduated from St John's College of Oxford University in England in 1879. He undertook"
"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,"
"the offer down, opting to stay in England to pursue a writing career. In the spring of 1819, Irving sent to his brother Ebenezer in New York a set of short prose pieces that he asked be published as ""The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent."" The first installment, containing ""Rip Van Winkle"", was an enormous success, and the rest of the work would be equally successful; it was issued in 1819–1820 in seven installments in New York, and in two volumes in London (""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"" would appear in the sixth issue of the New York edition,"
"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"
"""Rip van Winkle"", H. G. Wells's ""The Sleeper Awakes"". It also might have an influence on the motif of the ""king in the mountain"". Mark Twain did a burlesque of the story of the Seven Sleepers in Chapter 13 of Volume 2 of ""The Innocents Abroad"". Serbian writer Danilo Kiš retells the story of the Seven Sleepers in a short story, ""The Legend of the Sleepers"", in his book ""The Encyclopedia of the Dead"". Italian author Andrea Camilleri incorporates the story in his novel ""The Terracotta Dog"". The Seven Sleepers appear in two books of Susan Cooper's ""The Dark Is"
"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"
"""Seven Sleepers"" (D 1960.1, also known as the ""Rip Van Winkle"" motif), whose type tale is the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus (AT tale type 766). King in the mountain stories involve legendary heroes, often accompanied by armed retainers, sleeping in remote dwellings, including caves on high mountaintops, remote islands, or supernatural worlds. The hero is frequently a historical figure of some military consequence in the history of the nation where the mountain is located. The stories gathered by the Brothers Grimm concerning Frederick Barbarossa and Charlemagne are typical of the stories told, and have been influential on many variants and"
"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"
"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"
"short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"" with book, music, and lyrics by Brazillia R. Kreep a.k.a. R. O’Donnell. It was presented by the St. John's Conservatory Theatre on October 16, 17, 18, 23, 24 and 25, 2016 at the St. John's Parish House in the city of Ogdensburg, NY. Direction was by R. O'Donnell, Musical Direction and Choreography by Angela Conzone Dwyer with Arrangements and Orchestrations by Ryan C. McNally, and Technical Direction and Production coordination by Christopher Dwyer. Original Costumes and Makeup Design were created by Karen Fischbeck Carmany with additional costumes made by Ann Losurdo with Set"
"a sermon inspired by the painting, and wrote about it to his brother Theo. The Boughton painting is now part of the collection of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Boughton illustrated Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ""The Scarlet Letter"" and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poems. In 1893, the edition of Washington Irving’s ""Rip Van Winkle"" and ""Sleepy Hollow"" was published in London with 53 illustrations by Boughton (see bibliography). A London critic once declared that he ""has learnt the secret of putting natural feelings into rustic figures, which has been almost entirely wanting to English painters."" Boughton exhibited extensively in both Britain and"
"Washington, D.C. Van McCoy Van McCoy & The Soul City Symphony Van McCoy Van Allen Clinton McCoy (January 6, 1940 – July 6, 1979) was an American musician, record producer, arranger, songwriter, singer and orchestra conductor. He is known best for his 1975 internationally successful song ""The Hustle"". He has approximately 700 song copyrights to his credit, and is also noted for producing songs for such recording artists as Gladys Knight & the Pips, The Stylistics, Aretha Franklin, Brenda & the Tabulations, David Ruffin, Peaches & Herb and Stacy Lattisaw. Van McCoy was born in Washington, D.C., the second child"
"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,"
"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,"
"come up with evidence for his resistance activities when the war is over. The original is from 1958. Willem Frederik Hermans Willem Frederik Hermans (1 September 1921 – 27 April 1995) was a Dutch author of poetry, novels, short stories, plays, as well as booklength studies, essays, and literary criticism. His most famous works are ""The House of Refuge"" (novella, 1952), ""The Darkroom of Damocles"" (novel, 1958), and ""Beyond Sleep"" (novel, 1966). After World War II, Hermans tried to live off his writing exclusively, but as his country was just recovering from the Occupation, he had no opportunity to sustain"
"the different sources that Diogenes relates, Epimenides lived to be 154, 157, or 299 years old. Multiple sources have identified the story of Epimenides as the earliest known variant of the ""Rip Van Winkle"" fairy tale. In Christian tradition, there is a similar, well-known story of ""The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus"", which recounts a group of early Christians who hid in a cave circa 250 AD, to escape the persecution of Christians during the reign of the Roman emperor Decius. They fell into a miraculous sleep and woke some 200 years later during the reign of Theodosius II, to discover"
"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"
"with his 1764 novel ""The Castle of Otranto"" is one of the first writers who explored this genre. The American Revolutionary War-era ""American Gothic"" story of the Headless Horseman, immortalized in ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"" (published in 1820) by Washington Irving, marked the arrival in the New World of dark, romantic storytelling. The tale was composed by Irving while he was living in England, and was based on popular tales told by colonial Dutch settlers of the Hudson Valley, New York. The story would be adapted to film in 1922, in 1949 as the animated ""The Adventures of Ichabod"
"adaptation the movie is nonsense … but for film historians it is remarkable."" 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"
"Van McCoy Van Allen Clinton McCoy (January 6, 1940 – July 6, 1979) was an American musician, record producer, arranger, songwriter, singer and orchestra conductor. He is known best for his 1975 internationally successful song ""The Hustle"". He has approximately 700 song copyrights to his credit, and is also noted for producing songs for such recording artists as Gladys Knight & the Pips, The Stylistics, Aretha Franklin, Brenda & the Tabulations, David Ruffin, Peaches & Herb and Stacy Lattisaw. Van McCoy was born in Washington, D.C., the second child of Norman S. McCoy, Sr. and Lillian Ray. He learned to"
"Walter Van Tilburg Clark Walter Van Tilburg Clark (August 3, 1909 – November 10, 1971) was an American novelist, short story writer, and educator. He ranks as one of Nevada's most distinguished literary figures of the 20th century, and was the first inductee into the 'Nevada Writers Hall of Fame' in 1988, together with Robert Laxalt, Clark's mentee and Nevada's other heralded twentieth century author. Two of Clark's novels, ""The Ox-Bow Incident"" and ""The Track of the Cat,"" were made into films. As a writer, Clark taught himself to use the familiar materials of the western saga to explore the"
"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"
"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"