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In Sleepy Hollow Country, a Fictional City Embraces Its Destiny
Jack-o-lanterns are big business in the Hudson River towns that Washington Irving dreamed of.
On The Job is a series of conversations with the people who keep neighborhoods running.
Ambling past 7,000 flickering pumpkins at the Great Jack-o’-Lantern Blaze in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, it’s easy to imagine why Washington Irving described this area north of Manhattan as a “spellbound region,” full of people who are “given to all kinds of marvelous beliefs, are subject to trances and visions, and frequently hear music and voices in the air.”