The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
by Washington Irving · first published 1820
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A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.
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Washington Irving's "The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon." It's 30 separate pieces -- two of which you've heard of ("The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip van Winkle.") But the larger work is a collection of essays by a travel-loving man, so even those two stories are cast as rural tales he'd heard during his travels. They're surprisingly modern…
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…reading works first published 200 years ago today, even fictional works. Pride and Prejudice was published in 01813, Frankenstein was first published in 01818, Rip Van Winkle was published in 01819, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow was published in 01820, The Last of the Mohicans was published in 01826, Self-Reliance was published in 01841, The Cask of Amontillado was published in 01846. Maybe Rowling doesn't rise to the level…
on “Greg Newby, CEO of Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, has died” ↗…in America doesn't respect...educators in the way it used to. Things may have gone downhill since the 1950s, but it was never very good. Think of the scorn directed at the teaching profession in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and the traditional proverb, "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach." I don't know when it began, but the general disrespect for educators is centuries old in Anglo culture.
on “California needs real math education, not gimmicks” ↗This is somewhat of a plot component in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, set in New York in 1790. Ichabod Crane is a schoolteacher, and he is sustained by food and lodging from the villagers.
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