Uncle Ernie is back again this year for more Halloween fun; so click on a link to see my newest spooktacular creations!
Last
summer I celebrated having no work with a slow, critical reading
of Washington Irving's The
Legend of Sleepy Hollow. I had never read it before; and I found
it more interesting than I thought it would be. Irving fits an actual
place from his youth and details from American's colonial history
into a fictional story of post Revolutionary War New York . Many of
the characters are based on people he had met or on stereotypes of the
times. I think it is worth everyone's time to read and enjoy it as Irving's
contribution to the creation of American mythology. It is always assumed
that Brom
Bones was the Headless Horseman; but Irving puts enough clues in the
text to point to two other possibilities!
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