Posts Tagged ‘Tarrytown’
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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City of Gracious Living
When I think about my old hometown of Yonkers, New York, or return to visit my family still living there – usually crossing the Hudson on the Tappan Zee Bridge and making landfall at Tarrytown, hometown of Rip Van Winkle — I somehow come unstuck in time, like Vonnegut’s Billy Pilgrim. Henry Hudson’s ship is [...]
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City of Gracious Living
When I think about my old hometown of Yonkers, New York, or return to visit my family still living there – usually crossing the Hudson on the Tappan Zee Bridge and making landfall at Tarrytown, hometown of Rip Van Winkle — I somehow come unstuck in time, like Vonnegut’s Billy Pilgrim. Henry Hudson’s ship is [...]
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Tags: "Hello, Billy Pilgrim, DMX, Dolly!”, Ella Fitzgerald, Gene Krupa, Getty Square, Ghetto Square, Henry Hudson, James Cagney, John Masefield, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Mary J. Blige, Mulford Gardens, Nepperhan Creek, Rip Van Winkle, Sid Caesar, Tappan Zee Bridge, Tarrytown, Yonkers
