Word: tours
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...movies and I love a good scare. So, being too impatient to wait for the Thanksgiving release of Tim Burton's new horror film Sleepy Hollow, I figured I would visit the source of inspiration for Washington Irving's story and now, the new movie. I would take a tour the anachronistic haven for the ghouls and ghosts that Washington Irving captured in writing 150 years ago: the true Sleepy Hollow. I set out on a mission to hunt out all the ghosts I could find. I was determined to track down the spirits of Sleepy Hollow, find where they...
...grew up. Where better than the home of Washington Irving? I was certain that if the spirit of the Headless Horseman still resided somewhere, it would be in the vast fields that surround Irving's house. So, I headed over to the estate, bought a ticket for the tour and braced myself for what was destined to put a Universal Studios horror tour to shame. Sure, I began to be skeptical when I saw that my tour mates were either hobbling retirees or elementary school children...
...tour guide was a very bright and well-informed man. Dressed in period clothing, he led us through the idyllic hills of the estate and told us all about Irving's interest in landscape and architecture. We toured through the small cottage that Irving had built and lived in until his death. We even got gossip about Irving's love life and family life. The tour was informative. It was even enjoyable. But, I had been looking for the sensationalism of a ghost hunt, and our charming tour guide clearly had more respectable motive. He had a genuine interest...
...halls, renovated for $3 million last summer, have indeed improved food quality for students, efficiency for the University and aesthetics for tour groups...
...That tour de force was followed by Sena Naslund's Ahab's Wife, in which young Una Spencer goes to sea disguised as a boy and eventually encounters Melville's legendary whaling captain. Marriage and a child follow before Ahab goes off to chase Moby Dick and Una becomes a freethinker, abolitionist and, in time, Ishmael's significant other...