Month: December 2020

Christmas in Sleepy Hollow New York

HOW CHRISTMAS CAME TO SLEEPY HOLLOW | Washington Irving’s “Old Christmas”

Old Christmas came to stay in Sleepy Hollow after Washington Irving’s time in England. In his sack, he brought “The Headless Horseman” and “Santa Claus.” Was he truly the man who invented Christmas? It has forever been debated who really “invented” Christmas. Was it Charles Dickens and his 3 Christmas ghosts, or Washington Irving, the …