TV Show Breathes New Life Into Sleepy Hollow

... the spooky countryside hamlet that Irving made up for his short story. The village was originally known as North Tarrytown, but in 1996 the town voted to change the name. In Irving's story, a lanky schoolteacher named Ichabod Crane is terrorized by ...

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