Jim Logan
By day, Jim Logan is superintendent of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, a position that requires him to keep excellent company with the permanently quiet residents of one of America's most storied burial grounds. A fifth-generation Tarrytowner, Jim might reasonably expect this pedigree to lend him a certain air of historical gravitas—and in most towns, it would. But when your job regularly puts you in contact with families whose ancestors were already well-established here when the Dutch were still running things, five generations starts to feel like you just moved in. By night—and weekends, and probably lunch breaks—he's a historian with an unhealthy appetite for crumbling newspaper archives and forgotten local lore. After more than two decades of research, Jim has assembled a formidable collection of Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown historical resources, which he mines for the stories that appear on Sleepy Hollow Country. If there's a ghost with a tale to tell, a legend with a plot hole, or a 19th-century scandal gathering dust in the archives, he'll find it.
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The Ghostly Skater of Iona Island
In the winter of 1899, something peculiar was gliding across the frozen Hudson near Iona Island. According to the Nyack Evening Star of February 3, 1899, it wasn’t just the usual crowd of enthusiastic skaters—it was a ghost. On skates. And people were terrified enough to abandon their favorite skating grounds after dark. The entire account, published under the modest headline “Tale of a Ghost,” consists of exactly three sentences: “An up-the-river exchange tells of an alleged ghost which has been seen about Iona Island, at the upper part of this county. It is said that this ghost is on skates, and several skaters have claimed to have seen him. Those who…
