SAND SPRINGS, Okla. — A 19th-Century New Yorker is being honored in Green Country on April 18. A chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution are dedicating a new marker for Washington Irving ...

A statue of Washington Irving located in Bixby, Oklahoma, was vandalized recently when someone removed its head. Bixby Police said the suspect, Thanh Cong Dinh, was arrested and the missing part of ...

Historic Hudson Valley’s 2026 season opens Friday, May 8, with tours of Philipsburg Manor and Washington Irving’s Sunnyside, ...

Sunnyside in Irvington, the home of American author Washington Irving, sits on over 10 acres of land overlooking the Hudson River in Irvington. Irving, best known for short stories such as “The ...

JUST RENAME ITSELF SLEEPY HOLLOW TO HONOR WASHINGTON IRVING’S CLASSIC STORY. THE TOWN CONTINUES TO CELEBRATE ALL THINGS IRVING. WE ALL FEEL VERY CONNECTED TO THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW AND THE FACT ...

“A Visit From St. Nicholas” is the beginning of modern Christmas, a manuscript specialist at Christie’s said. By James Barron Hugh Francis plays the famous role from the Washington Irving story in ...

Manhattanite -- New York's lost past, 1783-1803 -- Early travels, 1803-1806 -- Whim-whams and a treason trial, 1806-1807 -- Meet Diedrich Knickerbocker, 1808-1809 -- Irving goes to war, sort of, ...

JUST RENAME ITSELF SLEEPY HOLLOW TO HONOR WASHINGTON IRVING’S CLASSIC STORY. THE TOWN CONTINUES TO CELEBRATE ALL THINGS IRVING. WE ALL FEEL VERY CONNECTED TO THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW AND THE FACT ...

Washington Irving was born just as the news reached New York City: The war with England was over. To celebrate, his mother named him after the victorious American general. When he was a boy of 6, ...