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“His greatest treasure of historic lore, however, was discovered in an old goblin-looking mill, situated among rocks and water-falls, with clanking wheels, and rushing streams, and all kinds of uncouth noises. A horse-shoe, nailed to the door to keep off witches and evil spirits, showed that this mill was subject to awful visitations. As we approached it, an old negro thrust his head, all dabbled with flour, out of a hole above the water-wheel, and grinned, and rolled his eyes, and looked like the very hobgoblin of the place. The illustrious Diedrich fixed upon him, at once, as the very one to give him that invaluable kind of information, never to be acquired from books. He beckoned him from his nest, sat with him by the hour on a broken mill-stone, by the side of the waterfall, heedless of the noise of the water, and the clatter of the mill; and I verily believe it was to his conference with his African sage, and the precious revelations of the good dame of the spinning wheel, that we are indebted for the surprising though true history of Ichabod Crane and the headless horseman, which has since astounded and edified the world.”
From The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
The mill is still there, at Philipsburg Manor at Sleepy Hollow. Along with the millpond whee Ichabod took his dates for walks. Sleepy Hollow still retains an air of sleepy mystery, once you get away from the highway and into the woods. Which is where the story belonged.
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Available as a fine art print, or matted and framed with a fanatical eye for detail and quality.
- Printed with archival inks on acid free, Moab Somerset Enhanced Velvet watercolor paper and mounted on foamcore for stability and protection.
- Real natural solid wood frames are handmade and finished with an eye for quality and finished with a sturdy wire hanger. When ordering matted prints, they are double matted, with gallery quality boards, and protected by clear acrylic glass.
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