Irving avidly collected stories of the American Revolution. Photo by Todd Atteberry, Image sourced from Legends and Lore of Sleepy Hollow and the Hudson Valley.
And we all know how much Americans love ghosts! He is the geek who goes on to get some revenge on the bullies either as a lawyer or a Sleepy Hollow ghost. Irving’s Ichabod shaped the archetypical, charmingly clueless nerd we love to frighten. One look at the daguerreotype of an elderly Colonel Crane, pictured above, shows a resemblance in name only. He felt tainted by association with the snipenosed teacher. Later, some sources say the real war bird objected vigorously to this appropriation of his moniker.
Lockie Longlegs alliterates, lopes and looks good on paper, but the name Ichabod Crane sang out for a Yankee pedagogue. It provided the author with an onomatopoeia description for a bird-beaked scarecrow of a schoolmaster. His exploits interested Washington Irving enough for a meeting after the war.
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