folklore

Circa 1790 in the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town, in a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod Crane, a sycophantic, lean, lanky, and extremely superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut, competes with Abraham "Brom Bones" Van Brunt, the town rowdy, for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter and sole child of a wealthy farmer, Baltus Van Tassel. As Crane leaves a party he attended at the Van Tassel home on an autumn night, he is pursued by the Headless Horseman, who is supposedly the ghost of a Hessian trooper who had his head shot off by a stray cannonball during some nameless battle of the American Revolutionary War, and who rides forth to the scene of battle in nightly quest of his head. Ichabod mysteriously disappears.

It was a beautiful night, went downtown for coffee.  Walked around looking at architecture, shops, people, myths.