Vocabulary
A device found on many of the houses in the village, used to indicate the direction of the wind.
What is a weathercock?
The year Irving wrote the short story Rip Van Winkle.
What is 1819?
The tale of Rip Van Winkle was discovered among this New York man's papers.
Who is Diedrich Knickerbocker?
A branch of the Appalachian mountains and the area where the Van Winkle's live.
What are the Catskill mountains?
Due to the mountains changing colors with the change of weather, "all good wives, far and near" regarded the mountains as perfect these devices.
What are barometers?
A group of people like those who understood and supported Van Winkle.
What are adherents?
This year, the year Washington Irving was born, is the same year the American Revolution ended.
What is 1783?
Rip Van Winkle can be seen as a symbol of these things.
What are the past, the American colonies, and wanting to escape from domestic tyranny.
You will see the mountains near where the Van Winkle's live if you take a voyage up this river.
What is the Hudson River?
The only side of the house that belongs to a hen-pecked husband.
What is the outside?
The brisk and cheerful readiness in which Van Winkle complied with his new acquaintance.
What is alacrity?
Another short story, besides Rip Van Winkle, that is among Irving's most famous works.
What is The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?
Often seen sitting at the door of the inn he was landlord of and also the patriarch of the village.
Who is Nicolas Vedder?
The direction where you will see the Catskill mountains from the river.
What is west of the river?
The flagon Van Winkle drinks from that causes Van Winkle's long sleep may symbolize this.
What is the wish
to avoid responsibilities?
A man's short close-fitting jacket, worn over the doublet in the 16th and 17th centuries.
What is jerkin?
He was the president that Irving wrote a five volume biography about.
Who is George Washington?
Fences falling apart, weeds growing quicker in his field than others, always raining as he is about to get work done, and having the farm in the worst condition in the neighborhood could all be examples of this attribute of Van Winkle.
What is laziness?
The small yellow bricks that some of the houses in the village are built out of come from this country.
What is Holland?
The thunderous noise Rip heard as he headed up the mountain was actually this game being played.
What is nine-pins?
Due to Van Winkle being gone for so many years, he doesn't know the change in government. Because of this, the people call him this which means a supporter of the British side during the American Revolution.
What is a Tory?
A collector may see Washington Irving's face on this item from 1940.
What is a stamp?
This character can be seen as someone who symbolizes a tyrannical ruler.
Who is Dame Van Winkle?
Fable says this stream was formed and made its way to the Hudson when a hunter dislodged some rocks.
What is the Kaaterskill?
After Rip's twenty years of sleep, he noticed the sign that used to have the face of King George now had this famous man's face on it.
Who is General Washington?