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A Little 'Too Sleepy' Hollow? Haunts, Hangs, & Happenings in the Headless Horseman's Hometown

Nestled up in the Hudson Valley, only an hour or so from the hubbub of New York City, is where you’ll find the small village that author Washington Irving once described as “one of the quietest places in the whole world”, where “the occasional whistle of a quail or tapping of a woodpecker is almost the only sound that ever breaks in upon the uniform tranquillity”. Sleepy Hollow, forever immortalized in Irving’s writing, is still a quaint little place to visit these days; whether or not Ichabod Crane would recognize it in its current state is another question.

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How to Make the Most Out of an Evening in Downtown Greenville, S.C.

Making downtown a place people want to be is the constant challenge of city leaders the world over. While there’s no magical one-size-fits-all formula, some cities simply get it right. One of those happens to be Greenville, South Carolina, a smaller Southern city sporting a downtown with a lot of charm.

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Meandering Around Music City; or, Three Days in Nashville: Day 3

As the rain continued to threaten on that cloudy Sunday afternoon, there was one more mural other than the dragon in Hillsboro Village that I was intent on seeing. That one can be described by four words alone: "I Believe in Nashville."

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Meandering Around Music City; or, Three Days in Nashville: Day 2

I awoke Saturday morning and was pleasantly surprised to discover that I hadn't died during the previous evening's shenanigans. Looking around, however, I did notice the yellow mustard stain on my pants, which had been hastily discarded on the floor some eight hours earlier.

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Meandering Around Music City; or, Three Days in Nashville: Day 1

I don't know why exactly, but we had it in our heads that we were going to leave town at some ungodly hour. And sure enough, there we were, packed and ready to go, backing out of the driveway just after 5 a.m. on Friday morning, Google Maps fired up and pointing us in the right direction.

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New York: 'The City Seen For The First Time...'

For four-ish days near the end of August 2015, I found myself in America’s largest city, the one they say never sleeps, trying to follow suit with that oft-used phrase while there. On the 16th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 9/11, I recount my visit from two years ago and the time I spent at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.

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