Posts Tagged ‘Sleepy Hollow Cemetery’
I’m really looking forward to a pair of upcoming events: On Thursday, January 26th, at 7 p.m., I’ll be at the Warner Library in Tarrytown, N.Y., reading from and talking about “Rip,” my modern-day parody of Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle.” In his later years, Irving lived at Sunnyside, his home on the Hudson River [...]
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Tags: "Rip", Catskills, literary parody, Nicholas DiGiovanni, Rip Van Winkle, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Tarrytown, Washington Irving
The cultivation of grapes
18May09
You ask when I’m going to get around to writing about my visit to Concord. You would think, when I finally did get around to it, that I’d write about visiting the graves of Thoreau, Emerson, Hawthorne and Louisa May and all the other Alcotts, all of whom sleep their endless sleep within the green [...]
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Tags: Alcotts, Colonial Inn, Concord, Concord grapes, downtown Concord, Emerson, Ephraim Wales Bull, grape arbors, grape vines, grapes, Hawthorne, Louise May Alcott, love, Mass., Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Thoreau, transcendentalism, Walden, Walden Pond wildlife
