THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW by WASHINGTON IRVING (PT.1)
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 2 November 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
This classic short story by Washington Irving is a well-written tale of life in the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town in New York State in an area bordering the Hudson River , where many Dutch and German immigrants settled after Henry Hudson's explorations. Along with a desire to work hard and prosper, the Dutch brought with them their superstitions..and the deep woods and wild things in that country provided a great setting for stories. In this story, a tall, gangly schoolteacher named Ichabod Crane battles with a favorite local hero for the affections of a wealthy Dutch maid. Irving is a master of the English language and uses rich, descriptive words and phrases in his story, providing a great way for the listener to brush up on the better side of the English language.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Welcome to another episode of one thousand one classic short stories and tales. This one titled The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Part 1, which is recognized as the first largely popular short story written by an American author. |
| 0:35.5 | Yes, written while he was in England, but American nonetheless. |
| 0:39.5 | As is usual with most of the classic story writers. |
| 0:43.4 | Their mastery of the English language is excellent and the choice of words that are |
| 0:48.1 | unfamiliar to us today are abundant. |
| 0:50.4 | But after a while, listening to these stories can't help but broaden your appreciation of the English language and provide an excellent education in history and help you to brush up on your own English. |
| 1:01.0 | The area described in upstate New York is where my ancestors settled when they arrived fresh |
| 1:06.7 | from Germany into the new world in 1656. They had come because their homelands |
| 1:12.2 | on the Rhine had been seized by attacking French, and with nothing left and nowhere to go, the new world looked pretty good. |
| 1:19.0 | The English were getting pretty well settled in New England and they were busy colonizing, |
| 1:24.6 | bringing in large amounts of German, Irish, Scottish, and Dutch and marrying them off to the |
| 1:30.2 | Mohawk tribe whenever possible. The goal being to create a sizable population of |
| 1:35.4 | farmers and fighters that the British could use to fight the French, who also had designs |
| 1:40.4 | on the colonies south of their footholds in Canada. The little Dutch |
| 1:44.6 | settlements called Dorps practice their religion, raise good families, worked |
| 1:50.0 | hard and fought hard when the time came to fight Indians, French, and then they're one-time came to fight. |
| 1:53.0 | Indians, French, and then their one-time benefactors, |
| 1:57.0 | the British during the American Revolution. |
| 2:00.0 | In one family account I dug up, |
| 2:02.0 | the Dutch disliked government tax collectors so much that they would run them out of town on a rail, |
| 2:08.0 | which means they tarred and feathered them, tied their hands and feet around a fence rail, and carried them out of the village. |
| 2:15.0 | Independent cuss as they were. They just didn't like big government. |
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