The Loyalist Gazette, September 22nd, 1996
The fiction of Washington Irving, one of the earliest, if not the earliest, successful author in the early United States, contains references to the American Revolution. Although his stories are set some years after that War, a certain `flavour' of the period remains. Reading over his tales of the lower Hudson River area is enough to make one want to throw down the book and make a journey to that historical area.
Passing references are made to the War in Rip Van Winkle, whose main character lived through the Colonial Period, slept through the War years, and woke up after the new country had...
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