This story relates how a man would move as reliably as a sundial while smoking his pipe and keeping in the shade of a tree. The epigraph of this story is taken from William Cartwright's The Ordinary and begins "By Woden, God of Saxons." A character in this story is told that a woman died yelling at a peddler shortly after being asked "on which side he voted" by an orator in the Union Hotel. This story concludes by explaining that summer thunderstorms are caused by a group of ghosts playing ninepins in the mountains. For 10 points, name this story presented as a "Writing of Diedrich Knickerbocker" and set in the Catskills Mountains, in which the title character sleeps through the American Revolution.
This story relates how a man would move as reliably as a sundial while smoking his pipe and keeping in the shade of a tree. The epigraph of this story is taken from William Cartwright's The Ordinary and begins "By Woden, God of Saxons." A character in this story is told that a woman died yelling at a peddler shortly after being asked "on which side he voted" by an orator in the Union Hotel. This story concludes by explaining that summer thunderstorms are caused by a group of ghosts playing ninepins in the mountains. For 10 points, name this story presented as a "Writing of Diedrich Knickerbocker" and set in the Catskills Mountains, in which the title character sleeps through the American Revolution.
This story relates how a man would move as reliably as a sundial while smoking his pipe and keeping in the shade of a tree.
"Rip Van Winkle"