A tourist's guide to Sleepy Hollow
A Fate Worse than Death: The Perils of Being a Famous Corpse Even after death the famous are in high demand. Bess Lovejoy, author of Rest In Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses, offers a funny, tragic and true look at the threats famous bodies have faced through the ages: furta sacra (theft of [...]
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, [...]
Move over, headless horseman, the sheep are coming! Sleepy Hollow is home to not one, but two, annual sheep shearing events: Sheep Shearing Festival at Stone Barns and Sheep to Shawl at Philipsburg Manor. Sheep to Shawl. Philipsburg Manor, 381 North Broadway, Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591, 914-631-8200 weekdays, 914-631-3992 weekends. April 20-21, 2013. 10 am to [...]
Jazz great Hugh Masekela and his 6-piece band will perform at Tarrytown Music Hall, 13 Main Street, Tarrytown, NY, on Wednesday, April 17 at 8:00 p.m. The concert, in support of his new recording Playing @ Work, is presented by Jazz Forum Arts. Legendary South African trumpeter, flugelhornist and vocalist Hugh Masekela is an innovator [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Stone Barns 9th Annual Harvest Fest is on October 6, 2012 from 10 am to 3 pm. Stone Barns packs more into a day than other festivals do in a full weekend. Festivities will include live music featuring Brady Rymer and the Little Band That Could; a Farmers Market with delicious food from local purveyors; [...]
