In the years following the reclaiming of the name of Sleepy Hollow in 1996, I received many inquiries for information about the real, historic village of Sleepy Hollow. As the village historian, I found it difficult to reply to them all. Many of the questions I received had to do with how the historic village relates to the famous story. It was then that I began to write the material included in The Historically Annotated Legend of Sleepy Hollow, though it was actually many years before the book was published. It is now available…
