..."I noticed Lincolntons’ visitor side concrete bleachers had been pressured washed….they were shining like a new penny last night. It was amazing how much better it looked.
You know…when you’re down there at night….it’s like sleepy hollow…I looked for Ichabod Crane….but I heard he had to make a late run to the Supermarket!😂😂"...
Posted by Maiden Creek
My friend, one last thing: You'd mentioned Ichabod Crane who was a victim of the Headless Horseman. In the story, the horseman was a Hessian soldier hired out to the British as a mercenary, until a cannonball took his head off during the Battle of White Plains. His body was quickly buried minus his head which is why he rises from the grave and searches for his lost top.
Behind our press box and across the street on the campus of Battleground School, is a common grave which holds the bodies of around seventy men who were all killed and not identified after the Battle of Ramsour's Mill, fought in what is now the stadium area, in 1780.
One of these times when you visit us again I'll show it to you.
Side Note: In the fifth grade my teacher was a tall stately woman whose height and weight were, what looked to me then, in perfect proportion. The only problem was that in the face she looked like an image I'd seen of Ichabod Crane, who I thought was the ugliest person ever, and I've thought that for all these many years.
Earlier, this week, after only sleeping a few hours, I stumbled into may bathroom, flipped on the light, and looked into the mirror. I looked haggard and what little bit of hair I have was standing up, and the very, very, very first thing that came to mind was that I look like Ichabod Crane. God help me ! I'm being punished for my hateful thoughts about my fifth grade teacher some sixty years later.