A tourist's guide to Sleepy Hollow
Jim is historian at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, NY where he leads tours and organizes workshops and other events. Contact Jim at info@visitsleepyhollow.com.
Photographer and author Lance Keimig leads a workshop at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in June 2013. A mix of classroom and field sessions, the workshop presents an overview of historical night photography while introducing the latest tools at a photographer’s disposal: high quality digital image capture, RAW file processing, image stacking and HDR imaging, light painting, long exposures, [...]
A trip to Sleepy Hollow isn’t complete without a visit to Sleepy Hollow Cemetery and its famous residents, including Elizabeth Arden, Brooke Astor, Andrew Carnegie, Walter Chrysler, Samuel Gompers, Washington Irving, and William Rockefeller. Author Doug Keister sums it up: “Sleepy Hollow has it all; spooky lilting 18th century death’s head tombstones, twisting narrow roads, [...]
February concerts: Taj Mahal/John Mayall, David Cassidy, Colin Mochrie & Brad Sherwood, Get the Led Out. Also $5 movie nights! Tarrytown Music Hall, 13 Main Street, Tarrytown, NY 10591, 914-631-3390. Purchase tickets through the Tarrytown Music Hall online box office, the physical box office at 13 Main Street, or through the Music Hall’s ticket agent, [...]
Rockefeller State Park Preserve offers snowshoe trails, cross-country skiing, and sledding hills. It’s also a great spot for hiking, running, bird watching, photography, and geocaching (park permit required). Household pets are allowed on leash. Preserve grounds are open year round, sunrise to sunset. Rockefeller State Park Preserve, Route 117, 1 mile east of Route 9, [...]
Bring the kids to Sleepy Hollow’s downtown on Friday, October 26, 2012 for an afternoon of trick-or-treating fun! Meet at the Morse School playground on Beekman Avenue to pick up treatbags, snacks and other goodies, then go trick-or-treating from business to business along the avenue. In addition to the trick or treating activities, there will be pumpkin [...]
Lyndhurst After Dark Dare to enter the dark shadows of the Lyndhurst mansion as day gives way to blackest night… A spooky gothic mansion standing alone in a large, isolated property, Lyndhurst bears additional psychic residue as the site of the first two Dark Shadows movies, wherein vampires, assorted ghosts, and the family of Barnabas [...]
Are you ready to be scared out of your mind? Adapting “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” to dark extremes, Horseman’s Hollow returns for a third year of highly entertaining haunted mayhem, now expanded by popular demand to ELEVEN evenings. The 17th Century Dutch colony of Philipsburg Manor transforms into a terrifying landscape ruled by the [...]
Discover the legends behind the legend! Join master storyteller Jonathan Kruk, as he digs into his research behind Sleepy Hollow’s famous headless horseman. Don’t miss this chances to hear a master storyteller share his research on a classic American tale! He will also be signing copies of his new book, Legends and Lore of Sleepy Hollow and [...]
HAYRIDE SCHEDULED FOR OCTOBER 28, 2012 IS CANCELED. Hang onto your head, the village of Sleepy Hollow’s annual Haunted Hayride returns in 2012 for three nights of ghoulish fun! The block party on Beekman Avenue will return, too, keeping you entertained before your hair-raising ride through the real Sleepy Hollow. Purchase tickets through the village’s web [...]
The Historical Society presents the walking tour of all walking tours—especially if you’re interested in Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow! This two-hour tour will introduce you to the unique history of Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow and to some of the most intriguing people who have ever lived here. The guides will lead you through the many [...]
