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Yost Van Houten
Village elder and storykeeper. Fifty winters of valley history, told one long tale at a time.
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Experience
An old wise burgher of the valley, with a long story for every winter evening and a longer memory than the church register.
Village of Sleepy Hollow (Sleepy Hollow, NY)
Elder & Storykeeper — 1760–present
Keep fifty years of the valley's history, disputes, and hauntings in living memory, and have settled more boundary and livestock quarrels before the magistrate than after. Anchor the tavern fireside, where attendance improves measurably when I hold the floor.
Skills and tools
Storytelling, local history, and dispute mediation — the three turn out to be one skill. Pipe-smoking at a championship standard.
Recorded in the parish register of Sleepy Hollow, autumn of 1799.