Rip Van Winkle, a lazy American man, wanders off one day with his dog Wolf into the Kaatskill mountains where he runs into an odd group of men drinking and playing bowls. He drinks some of their ...

You know the story of Rip Van Winkle. He’s the fellow who fell asleep and awoke decades later, with a full beard and tattered clothes. One minute he’s a young man, and what seems to him a few hours ...

CATSKILL — The legend of Rip Van Winkle has spawned hundreds of eponymously named businesses in the Hudson Valley since it was penned by Washington Irving in 1819. In the story, Van Winkle falls ...

A tour of America’s past through 26 works that captured the country’s character and contradictions.