Halloween Haunts: Headless Halloween By Steve A. Wiggins
When the first breath of autumn touches the air, thoughts turn to colorful leaves, cinnamon-scented goodies, and pumpkins. Halloween can’t be far away. And each Halloween the headless horseman of Sleepy Hollow rides. Most of us don’t stop to think how closely related Halloween and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” actually are. They grew up together. Many of us in the Boomer generation likely learned about Washington Irving’s classic through Disney’s The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, or perhaps through the shortened version shown on television, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. We grew up with that scary song, “Headless…




