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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Written in 1821 by Washington Irving, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," is considered a classic of American literature. This 24 minute version features a narrator using (mostly) Irving's original language from the beloved short story as actor's silently act out the scenes. With quaint charm, gentle humor, and scary moments, this new version captures the spirit of what has been called "The Great American Ghost Story."
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Washington Irving: American Dreams
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This 43-minute documentary follows Washington Irving's journey from a teenage journalist in New York City to his position as America's most famous writer in his later years. "Washington Irving: American Dreams" chronicles how Irving became "The Father of the American Short Story," and touches on the notable political and literary figures he encountered during his life including George Washingto...
Hudson River Brickmakers (28 minute documentary)
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Hudson River Brick Makers In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Hudson River valley was the world capital of brick making. Due to a variety of factors, the last Hudson River brick yard closed in 2002, ending three and a half centuries of brick making on the Hudson. Bricks are so common that they go unnoticed. This 1/2 hour documentary demonstrates that they are a prism by wh...
The Enslaved Africans' Rain Garden
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Sculptor Vinnie Bagwell's journey to create a public art project to honor enslaved Africans uncovers an often overlooked chapter in the saga of slavery in North America. This 24 minute documentary chronicles Ms. Bagwell's efforts and traces the subject of slavery in New York from the founding of New Amsterdam to 1840, when slavery was fully abolished in New York State.
Anna Richards Brewster: American Impressionist
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American Impressionist painter Anna Richards Brewster overcame numerous obstacles to gain success in the male dominated art world. Her devotion to her artistic career was challenged by a marriage proposal. At the time, a dutiful wife was expected to put family and husband first. Richards' belief that her art would require all her energies wa...
A Nautical Irish Evening
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Recently Dunne's Pub in White Plains presented a Nautical Irish Evening. The evening's program included a celebration of Commodore John Barry, a revolutionary war hero, as well as a presentation of "Irish Pirate Ballads and Other Songs of the Sea," by Dan and Bonnie Milner. Dan Milner recently released a CD of the same name through the Smithsonian Folkways Label.
The New Bronx Documentary Center
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A one minute commercial announcing the new Bronx Documentary Center and its inaugural exhibition "Visions: Tim Hetherington"

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  • @patriciafeehan7732
    @patriciafeehan7732 4 дні тому

    Rock of Ages during the time of WASHING IRVING really?

    • @JimOrmond27
      @JimOrmond27 3 дні тому

      Yes, "Rock of Ages," was written in 1762, so it would have been a well-known hymn in 1790, the year in which Irving set "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

    • @patriciafeehan7732
      @patriciafeehan7732 3 дні тому

      @@JimOrmond27 Singing was not acceptable by the Puritan and the Dutch Descendants described by Washington Irving. The song may have existed but not in organ and choir form, as depicted in this short telling. No where in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow does it mention people singing Rock of Ages. When a film presents itself as telling the story and showing the actual lines written. There is no need for additives. This is considered the First published American Story, it needs no editing, adding or detracting. It does take place in a real town in The Land Beyond the Tapan Zee. During Irving’s time singing took place at Inns and Taverns in the German language. Olde New York was once New Amsterdam 🎶🎶 This is a great tale it doesn’t need Rock of Ages added for film fodder. Tell the tale.

    • @JimOrmond27
      @JimOrmond27 3 дні тому

      "In addition to his other vocations, he was the singing master of the neighborhood, and picked up many bright shillings by instructing the young folks in psalmody." This quote is taken directly from the original text. As "Rock of Ages," was one of the more popular psalm tunes at the time, I don't think it is taking too much license to say it could have been one of the tunes Ichabod might have instructed them in. The text also says Ichabod was a dancer. We showed dancing, but cannot confirm what the specific dance steps were. Should we not show dancing at the quilting frolic because we don't know what the specific dance steps were?

    • @patriciafeehan7732
      @patriciafeehan7732 3 дні тому

      @@JimOrmond27 Rock of Ages is not a Psalm. The early settlers of this area, did not sing Rock of Ages. They didn’t have the “sheet music” and the background instruments heard in this short flick. Be real, The German Dutch did not singing Rock of Ages it IS NOT MENTIONED in the original publication. Yet, this song is part of the ORIGINAL TEXT? Prove it. I heard a man was singing that when The Dutch hung him…hullabaloo. Have you no other thing to do?

    • @patriciafeehan7732
      @patriciafeehan7732 3 дні тому

      @@JimOrmond27 Have you ever seen the Church in Sleepy Hollow? Adding Rock of Ages to a masterpiece. For shame!

  • @aplacky
    @aplacky 4 дні тому

    Very well done. I am here because i just passed through tarrytown on a long weekend.

  • @davidwright8665
    @davidwright8665 Місяць тому

    Thank you very much to an insight into this artist. I wonderful display of her own emotions to surroundings in paint.

  • @williamwhittaker5447
    @williamwhittaker5447 Місяць тому

    I lived in kingston ny my entire life..awesome to see this documentary..

  • @elizabethmayrose8521
    @elizabethmayrose8521 Місяць тому

    Excellent version! Well done!

  • @lorisutherland7728
    @lorisutherland7728 Місяць тому

    Good story that people probably know anymore.

  • @lescobrandon3047
    @lescobrandon3047 Місяць тому

    Around about 2008 I was a professional photographer. I was asked by a NYS travel agent to photograph Bannerman’s Island on the east coast of the Hudson River. The owner during the civil war had vacationed in Europe and had admired the castles of Europe and after returning had built a castle. Sometime later, the castle was used to manufacture explosives. One day, the castle blew up, leaving much of the north side intact. When i arrived to look for good angles for my camera, an assistant told me she had found scattered bricks with raised lettering on them. My memory is fair but I think I found it to read Haverstraw. I failed to photograph one and forgot about it. Well, months later my map showed Haverstraw to be on the west coast of the river across from Bannerman’s Island. (One more thing; I wrote the above using my 83 year old brain. So I could have been off with details)

  • @trudymaenza9672
    @trudymaenza9672 Місяць тому

    Great story!😮

  • @richardmonroe4208
    @richardmonroe4208 3 місяці тому

    Just now came across this video and it brought back memories of my early childhood. Born in a Beacon, NY brick apartment (midwife and all), my father delivered milk to the Brockway Brick Yard, slightly north of the city limits. I would accompany him on Saturdays and remember the African-American children that would gather around the milk truck to purchase chocolate milk.

  • @Haffmatthew
    @Haffmatthew 3 місяці тому

    Great video. Thanks for the pleasure of watching it

  • @KOBA971
    @KOBA971 5 місяців тому

    Thank you for this.

  • @modee-b9s
    @modee-b9s 10 місяців тому

    Excellent video - Thanks!

  • @wtcausby
    @wtcausby Рік тому

    One of the best versions I have seen!! Thank you!!

  • @johnfree2833
    @johnfree2833 Рік тому

    Stolen land.dont deny it.maggots feasting upon the rotting corpse of Native America.maggots!😮😅😂

  • @stanleyeller5021
    @stanleyeller5021 Рік тому

    This was an excellent version!! Congratulations to the wole cast. This was better than some of the other version. I wonder where it was filmed at?

  • @nancercize
    @nancercize Рік тому

    I've been looking for this film for years. Saw it way back and remembered it fondly. I have a thing for bricks! And for the Hudson! Thanks for posting, from a Brooklyn gal. whose elementary school was a red brick masterpiece.

  • @gravitystorm61158
    @gravitystorm61158 Рік тому

    I grew up in Rockland County in Suffern… my family settled the Valley after Henry Hudson ran aground and was stuck in the mud. Seneca Princess Catoneras married my Original ancestor Janus Van Texel.

  • @beagle7672
    @beagle7672 Рік тому

    My ancestors lived in Verplanck Point, NY and worked in the brick yards there. I can't thank you enough for this film! What a wealth of information! Having watched this, I understand so much more about my ancestors' lives.

  • @phillipdannyjohnston8506
    @phillipdannyjohnston8506 2 роки тому

    THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW I LOVE THIS STORY , its narrated in the real version of the headless horseman not like the silly and absurd tim burton version !

  • @helenwood1
    @helenwood1 2 роки тому

    Terrific! Thank you for posting. A biography that needs to be told today more than ever.

  • @lindsayhengehold5341
    @lindsayhengehold5341 2 роки тому

    Love Washington Irving's works "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and his biography on Christopher Columbus.

  • @jacobhinojosa6462
    @jacobhinojosa6462 2 роки тому

    My favorite Washington Irving’s story I’m getting interesting the town of Sleepy Hollow.

  • @headlesspiper936
    @headlesspiper936 2 роки тому

    this was well done

  • @dougyeager6812
    @dougyeager6812 2 роки тому

    Since Hollywood is running out of ideas, I think a movie on the life of Washington Irving would be welcomed

    • @SevillaStorytime
      @SevillaStorytime Місяць тому

      I think they should do Tales from the Alhambra!

  • @dougyeager6812
    @dougyeager6812 2 роки тому

    Great Photography. Enjoyable

  • @jamesdouglas7345
    @jamesdouglas7345 2 роки тому

    Classic comment of no regard to any book. Oh how I wish I had 20 more years to take each book of others and rewrite them all. Classic! What a rich life for sure. Thanks you tube for the upload.

  • @jisteve9532
    @jisteve9532 2 роки тому

    Please subtitles for the deaf people.

  • @anniefinch6843
    @anniefinch6843 2 роки тому

    I remember this person that wrote The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

  • @vinniebagwell
    @vinniebagwell 2 роки тому

    Kicking off the City’s Juneteenth celebration weekend 2022- Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano along with sculptor Vinnie Bagwell, local artists, and community leaders will officially unveil The Enslaved Africans’ Rain Garden (EARG), along the Yonkers waterfront at 20 Water Grant Street, on June 17th at 11:00 AM. The urban-heritage sculpture garden honors the legacy of enslaved Africans who resided and worked at Philipse Manor Hall in Yonkers. The garden’s opening will feature the presentation of five life-size bronze sculptures of enslaved Africans who were freed decades before the Emancipation Proclamation. Please come!

  • @chowitt2396
    @chowitt2396 2 роки тому

    yes for me it was tales of the alhambra beautiful illustrations ❤

  • @kathleenhandron3092
    @kathleenhandron3092 2 роки тому

    Hudson River history is so evocative. Irving reminded of its early Dutch heritage which is the true DNA of the New York area and NY City.

  • @charleskeefer9030
    @charleskeefer9030 2 роки тому

    Sew a rude pony after gitcdh

  • @dianadenner8672
    @dianadenner8672 3 роки тому

    I thoroughly enjoyed watching this informative video on Washington Irving. In the tradition of living the literary life, I live in a Dutch colonial house along the Hudson, not too far away from where Herman Melville, author of the infamous Moby Dick, lived during his childhood and attended school, which is now the Lansingburgh Public Library. Irving is an extremely influential writer that still remains quite live and active in modern day. DLLUKE LLC and DLD May the Force Ventures LLC B: The Tale of the Halloween Cat, Adirondacks Artemis, How the Dog Saved the Squirrel from the Hawk, and upcoming book to be published Arthur, Merlyn and the Bat Scientists at the Round Table. Editor for New York State Watch (net) since 2011

  • @MosheFeder
    @MosheFeder 3 роки тому

    Thanks for making this available!

  • @TheCreaperHead
    @TheCreaperHead 4 роки тому

    E

  • @nativevirginian8344
    @nativevirginian8344 4 роки тому

    Enjoyed this very much! Brian Jones did a great biography of Irving. Amazing how much travel & adventure Irving had in his life.

  • @jackbuckley9195
    @jackbuckley9195 4 роки тому

    Great documentary. I've been fascinated by Irving since childhood, after first becoming acquainted with him through "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". Long intrigued by the drowsy glen, Tarrytown and its surroundings, etc. Still hope to visit someday, especially Sunnyside itself. I'm especially interested nowadays in Irving's time as American ambassador to Spain and the inspiration the enchanting land provided for his "Tales of the Alhambra", which I've never read but plan to shortly, as well as stories of the western plains, mountain men, Native Americans, etc. I've read portions of his biographies of Columbus and Washington but am desirous of returning to them again. I had no idea, until watching the documentary, that Irving wrote a biography of Muhammad. I'd be most interested in reading that, also. Thank you once again for this magnificent documentary, which provides more detailed information about Washington Irving than I've ever seen. The imagery that accompanies it is most imaginative, too!

  • @joshuan.johanson3170
    @joshuan.johanson3170 5 років тому

    Very Funny Tib Bit, Patrica Gordon was the lady that saved us from the Hudson River... My Aunt had many different boats during the tinme I was growing up, one time My Aunt Rev Arlene Dawber, loaded up us kids on her knewly aquiered speed boat, we proceeded out to the Hudson River on the Roundout Creek harbor... Well we had a good time sailing up the hudson towards Saugerties NY. when the boat stalled out and we left a drift in the Hudson's currents.. Mrs Patrica Gordon happened to be out on her boat, we flagged her down and she was able to toe us back to shore... What A Lovely Lady... Thank Yoiu For Saving us from the dangerous currents and towing us home.... This had to be back in the early 1990's but I will never forget our savior that day...

  • @GOtheVOPro
    @GOtheVOPro 5 років тому

    This is absolutely wonderful. I love seeing passionate people preserving history and culture, giving modern generations exposure to the sounds of yesterday. Thanks do Dan Milner and colleagues, as well as Jim Ormand and The Local History Channel.

  • @paulasheard4095
    @paulasheard4095 7 років тому

    Thankhs Much!!!!!!!!!. Thankh You My Ancestors!!!!!!

  • @no1luhrs
    @no1luhrs 7 років тому

    These bricks have cost me a prop or two lol

  • @strgyn
    @strgyn 8 років тому

    I live on the Goldricks property in the Goldricks home where they once made Goldricks bricks!

    • @no1luhrs
      @no1luhrs 7 років тому

      Tim where is that? I am over by patsy bay marina

    • @strgyn
      @strgyn 7 років тому

      Ed G just a bit north of the Kingston/Rhinecliff Bridge

  • @lindajenkins4504
    @lindajenkins4504 10 років тому

    We are deeply grateful for the "vessel", Vinnie....

  • @raquelali73
    @raquelali73 10 років тому

    Very enlightening! Excited to see your vision a reality. Thank you for interpreting the lost stories of our warriors and sheroes.

  • @vinniebagwell
    @vinniebagwell 11 років тому

    Thank you Jim Ormand for your show of support for the Enslaved Africans' Rain Garden project and your vision and care in the making of this wonderful documentary. Xo