While out exploring the Hudson Valley area, we had to stop by the “Ichabod Crane” schoolhouse. While Washington Irving’s famous tale, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, is fiction, he did visit this particular school house and met with the teacher here - Jesse Merwin. The eccentric schoolmaster Ichabod Crane who finds himself caught up in the haunting legend of the Headless Horseman was loosely based on Mr. Merwin .
Saying goodbye to family is never easy! We had such a great time and are so fortunate that they made the time to stay with us and take in the history of the Pilgrims (and Steve’s family)! Photos are from our last night together where we went out for dinner and walked around Bourne.
We took an afternoon to drive all the way around Cape Cod and see the initial site of the Pilgrim landing at Provincetown (map ). While we don’t know exactly the spot where they landed, there are a couple monuments dedicated to the Pilgrims in Provincetown - one is just a plaque and the other is a tower and museum. After lunch and a quick walk on the beach (at low tide), we elected to see both.