A collection of miscellaneous sketches, short stories, and essays, many of them humorous; includes such favorites as Rip Van Winkle, The Spectre bridegroom, and The legend of Sleepy Hollow.
The author chronicles his journey from Manhattan to upstate New York's Catskill Mountains, and from sophisticated city boy to country bumpkin, in a humorous memoir about the trials and tribulations of escaping the rat race.
