A tourist's guide to Sleepy Hollow
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, [...]
Join the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Historic Fund on Friday, July 27 for a screening of the 1970 film House of Dark Shadows. House of Dark Shadows unleashes the 200-year-old vampire Barnabas Collins on his unsuspecting family and their neighbors. Released from his crypt by an errant groundskeeper, the undead Barnabas falls for a family [...]
Pirates of the Hudson Philipsburg Manor, 381 North Broadway, Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591. 2012 dates: June 30-July 1. July 4-8. Timed entry at: 2pm, 3pm, 4pm, 5pm, 6pm Ahoy maties! Grab your brood and bring ‘em to Philipsburg Manor for the most fun this side of the Caribbean. Join us as boisterous pirates lay anchor [...]
