Book One
The Bridge at North Tarrytown
Where the series begins, on a village street the legend never left.
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Sleepy Hollow, New York
Growing up in the village the legend made famous.
Hunk Alley is a memoir series about a real childhood in Sleepy Hollow, between the Hudson and the old churchyard. Three books about a small town, big weather, and the story the whole world thinks it already knows.
Three
books in the series
A real
Hudson Valley village
Signed
copies available
The story in short
A childhood spent between the river and the churchyard.
This is a memoir about a place before it was a postcard. About walking home past the oldest church in the state, about the factory whistle down on the water, about the way autumn arrives in the Hudson Valley like it has somewhere to be.
The village carried a famous story on its back the whole time. Hunk Alley is the quieter one, the true one, the one about growing up there.
The series
Three books, read in order or on their own.
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“The river never hurried, and neither did the town. On October mornings the whole village smelled of woodsmoke and cold leaves, and the old church stood at the top of the lane like it was waiting for us to walk up and say something.”
From Book One. The author will replace this passage with a final excerpt.
The village
Real places, still standing.
The Old Dutch Church, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Philipsburg Manor and the Hudson riverfront are all still there, a walk apart. These photographs are the valley in the season the books live in.
A church on the hill
The village keeps the oldest church in New York State, and a burying ground older still.
Woods and old stones
Wooded paths and headstones of the kind that gave a legend its setting.
Main street in October
Flags out, leaves down, everybody walking the same four blocks.
The Hudson, looking north
Where the light comes off the water and the town looks back at itself.
Merchandise
Carry a little of the village home.
The next book
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Good to know
Questions readers ask.
Anything else, the contact page reaches the author directly.
Yes. Hunk Alley is a memoir series about really growing up in Sleepy Hollow, New York. The village, the church, the river and the seasons are all real. Names and small details are handled with a memoirist’s care, but the place and the childhood are true.
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