Two hundred years ago this summer, Washington Irving sat down one night and poured out the tale of an 18th-century Hudson Valley layabout who wandered up into the Catskill Mountains, drank some ...

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, ...

Basic Books, 420 pages, $27.50 Growing up in New York City rather far back in the last century, and often alarmed by middle-of-the-night thunderstorms, I could be comforted by being told that it was ...

With his tattered clothing, long fingernails and bewildered look, Rip Van Winkle awakes from his 20-year slumber in an imaginative painting that hangs at The Westmoreland Museum of American Art in ...

The Sigman Brothers will be re-airing BroadwayWorld 2021 Chicago's Best Musical during a limited time this month: Rip Van Winkle: An Original Musical. Against strong competition, Rip Van Winkle won ...