Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, near the Old Dutch Church on Broadway in Sleepy Hollow ( formerly North Tarrytown), is the final resting place for writers Thomas Beer, Fred Hayden Carruth, Whitelaw Reid, Carl Schurz, and Washington Irving.
The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center (HVWC) began in the late 1980s as a poetry series at the local library and is now a multi-faceted writers’ center offering not only readings by established and emerging writers in all genres but classes, outreach activities, and a press (named Slapering Hol after the Old Dutch for Sleepy Hollow) … Continued