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He Gave the Knicks Their Name. Why Was He Forgotten?

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/he-gave-the-knicks-their-name-why-was-he-forgotten

"Enthusiasts soon understand each other."

~ Washington Irving, born today, 1783.

#WashingtonIrving #Quote #Today

All sorts of things are wrong in my life, but all sorts of things are right too.

I can share an example of the latter. As I sit with a glass of White Horse, I am trying to decide which of these two books to read next:

Washington Irving -- Tales of the Alhambra

Franz Werfel -- The Forty Days of Musa Dagh

I'm lucky to be faced with such a choice.

#Books #TalesOfTheAlhambra #WashingtonIrving #AmericanLiterature #FranzWerfel #TheFortyDaysOfMusaDagh #GermanLiterature

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

✧ A Christmas Carol ✧

A Christmas Carol is an 1843 novella by Charles Dickens, illustrated by John Leech. It recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. After their visits, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man....

#ChristmasCarol #WashingtonIrving #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol

Today is Washington Irving's birthday, and I'm teaching "Rip Van Winkle" in my first class on US literature through the short story. Rip goes to sleep for 20 years and wakes up to find that the American Revolution happened and King George has been replaced by George Washington.

I would like some of that now please.

#WashingtonIrving
#literature

Today is Washington Irving's birthday, and I'm teaching "Rip Van Winkle" in my first class on US literature through the short story. Rip goes to sleep for 20 years and wakes up to find that the American Revolution happened and King George has been replaced by George Washington.

I would like some of that now please.

#WashingtonIrving
#literature

@Swede1952 Good morning—and, as always, lovely snap-shot.

I dabble in narration, so please excuse this unsolicited link to one of my readings.
#WashingtonIrving #Narration
https://soundcloud.com/user-651726783/rip-van-winkle-with-score

Published in 1809, Washington Irving's 'A History of New York' contains the oldest-known depiction of aliens as green men. The satirical tale imagines a civilization of moon-dwelling "Lunatics" that have green skin, one eye and carry their heads under their arms.
#WyrdWednesday

#Aliens #WashingtonIrving #Moon #Lunatics #AmericanLiterature

The evening begins with Pärt, Haydn, and Schubert by the Takács Quartet.

#music #concert #Takács #PSCNY #WashingtonIrving

#Quotes #AWAD #WashingtonIrving

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. -Washington Irving, writer (3 Apr 1783-1859)

Tonight is a delightful program with Anthony McGill, Susanna Phillips, and Myra Huang

#music #concert #PeoplesSymphony #WashingtonIrving

And tonight is a delightful program with the Calefax Reed Quintet

#music #concert #PeoplesSymphony #CalefaxReedQuintet #WashingtonIrving

Gestern ausgelesen. Ich war abgetaucht in die Welt der Sagen rund um die Alhambra von #Granada, den Alcazar von #Sevilla und #Cordoba, aber auch in Berichte über das damalige Leben … was für eine Welt ging da durch die „Rückeroberung“ verloren, als man wieder in finstere katholische Zeiten versank… zum Glück blieb noch etwas erhalten. Erfüllen wir es mit Leben durch Erhaltung und Frieden untereinander (auf allen Seiten), um blühende Länder zu bewahren.
Man kann #WashingtonIrving nicht mehr danken, dass er alles aus seiner Sicht aufschrieb, ein Denk-mal sei ihm aber auch hier gesetzt.
#Reiselektüre #Andalusien #Spanien

Eine Frage bleibt: Warum schafft es die Menschheit nicht, in Frieden zum Wohle der Erde und ihrer Bewohner miteinander zu leben?

@lolennui Then kick back and enjoy a nut cake. #WashingtonIrving

Here is an interview I did about the editing of the anthology of classic festive ghost stories "Ghost Stories For Christmas, Volume One" with Plan 9 Blog.
https://planninecrunch.blogspot.com/2022/12/ghost-stories-for-christmas-underscores.html?fbclid=IwAR0p3yrsaF4M-ovpA6JH-GclVwxa9k3cfRY-RPEfAlUnUe0UADp-C8yTfO0

#Christmas #ghost #ghoststories #horror #shortstory #ghoststoriesforchristmas #andibrooks #fiction #ShortStoryAnthology #ChriistmasGhostStories #WinterTales #CharlesDickens #WashingtonIrving

I've edited an anthology of 30 Christmas ghost stories penned from 1820 to 1929. In paperback & Kindle from all Amazon marketplaces.
https://www.amazon.com/Ghost.../dp/B0BHMPR3RY/ref=sr_1_1...

Features: #WashingtonIrving #CharlesDickens #MarkLemon #ElizabethGaskell #ENesbit #FitzJamesOBrien #EFBenson #SabineBaringGould #MaryElizabethBraddon, #CharlotteRiddell #RobertLouisStevenson #algernonblackwood & many more

#Christmas #ghost #ghoststories #horror #shortstory #ghoststoriesforchristmas #andibrooks #fiction #anthology

Paramount Pictures released #TimBurton's #SleepyHollow in American cinemas #onthisday in 1999. As influenced by Hammer horror, Mario Bava (particularly Black Sunday), Poe and German Expressionism as the #WashingtonIrving story, with a great supporting cast including #ChristopherLee, #ChristopherWalken and #MichaelGough, Oscar-winning art direction by #RickHeinrichs and atmospheric cinematography by #EmmanuelLubezki.

#OTD #Gothic #GothicHorror #HorrorMovies #Horror