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Teachers spend hundreds out of pocket to prepare their classrooms. A donation from Teachers’ Treasures and Two Men and a Junk Truck is providing much-needed relief to Washington Irving Elementary.
WASHINGTON IRVING occupied much too prominent a position among his literary contemporaries not to be aware that a narrative of his life would be called for by his countrymen.
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SLEEPY HOLLOW, N.Y. — Washington Irving's short stories "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" were both published and enormously successful by 1820.Part of Irving's spooky genius ...
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Sleepy Hollow Cemetery celebrated its 175th anniversary in 2024 and was created partly by Washington Irving, who died 10 years after its founding and is buried there. SLEEPY HOLLOW, N.Y. — ...
When I taught literature, reading “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving was one of my favorite fall traditions. Teaching it close to Halloween only intensified the festiveness of ...