Tuesday Trivia: October 20, 2020
Published October 2020
By Greg Elwell | 2 min read
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![Author Washington Irving is revered in one northeast Oklahoma city. Copy daguerreotype by Mathew Brady, reverse of original by John Plumbe. - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3c10044.](https://d1nyedprbrntd2.cloudfront.net/generated/fit-in/925x3000/Irving-Washington-LOC.jpg)
Author Washington Irving is revered in one northeast Oklahoma city. Copy daguerreotype by Mathew Brady, reverse of original by John Plumbe. - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3c10044.
Oklahoma is a bit grabby with big names. We’re awfully proud of our native Oklahoman musicians, athletes, and artists, but we’ll also latch onto anyone famous who’s just passing through. That explains why New York-born author Washington Irving, creator of “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” gets so much love in Oklahoma. He came through with a U.S. Army exploration unit in 1832, as chronicled in his book A Tour on the Prairies. He wrote about staying in a camp along the banks of the Arkansas River in a grove of trees in what is now a present-day Oklahoma city. That city celebrates their famous connection with the Washington Irving Park and Arboretum where local middle school students present a retelling of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” each October.
What is the name of this Washington Irving-loving city?
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