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Links relating to Background Information

Sunnyside

Catskill Mountains (virtual hike through Balsam Woods)

Catskill Mountains (definition)

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery

Old Dutch Church

19th century music (discusses various musicians)

Rip Van Winkle

A History of Old New York (1809)

 

Links relating to Lesson Plans

Content Learning Standards

Hudson River School

Hudson River (map)

Mark Twain

American Heritage River Initiative

River Keepers

 

Links relating to Timeline

Songs of Experience by William Blake

George Washington by Gilbert Stuart

Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant

Autocrat of the Breakfast Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Nature: Addresses & Lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Clove, Catskills by Thomas Cole

Twilight in the Wilderness by Frederick Church

 

Web sites that mention HHV

The Sleep Hollow Home Page – Sites, resources and things to do in Sleepy Hollow

Sleepy Hollow Chamber of Commerce

The Hudson River Museum

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  Historic Hudson Valley  (c) 1999

This web site was supported with
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The Verizon Foundation

Project director:  Ross W. Higgins, director of program services, Historic Hudson Valley
Sunnyside Site Director:  Dina R. Friedman
Web content developer: 
Laura J. Dickstein, arts and museum education consultant.
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