John André

Ichabod ate, danced and drank his merry way through the evening, and when the music had come to an end, he sat down by the fire and began to tell stories.

He told tales of cries in the night, the woman in white, the haunted glen at Raven's Rock, a great tree where the ghost of Major Andre was often seen, and finally, the story of the headless horseman of Sleepy Holler.

Immediately, Brom added that he himself had seen the horseman just three nights before.

He joked that he had raced the ghost and was ahead by the bridge, but as they rounded the bend onto the church grounds, the soldier vanished, for he could not cross onto sacred ground.

Books interested him much less than painting or the shop of the gunsmith.

Nobody knows who taught him to paint, unless it was Major Andre, who was later hanged as a spy.

Major Andre lived for some months at Lancaster, and gave painting lessons there.

It is possible that Robert was one of his pupils.

At all events, the boy learned, when quite young, to draw and to paint.

Their plan was to complete the invention and print a small religious book.

Though Gutenberg and his partners worked steadily for two years, the invention was not complete before the Christmas of 1439.

The cost of the enterprise The faith of these men and the will with which they worked are shown in a talk between Andrew Dretzin, one of the partners, and Frau von Zabern.

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I was supposed to do this last segment I'll figure out when this comes but we'll do it right now here's Mark Miller with today was the day when again I was supposed to be last segment that's my fault I'm the host of this show and I should know when the damn segments are for the record today was the day when's brought to you by France Eye Care visit online franceeyecare.com Benedict Arnold that no good son of a Gave the British Major John Andre plans for West Point today in 1780, that traitor.

1952, the Boston Braves play their final game in Boston.

They'd lose to Brooklyn and they would relocate to Milwaukee.

I've commented on this frequently.

It was on this date in 1780, Benedict Arnold gives detailed plans of West Point to Major John Andre.

Benedict Arnold.

Oh, to have your name be synonymous for all of time with being a traitor.

It is Monday, September 21st.

And on this date in 1780, British officer John Andre met with American General Benedict Arnold to receive plans for the defenses at West Point.

And Andre was captured a few days later, and he exposed Arnold's plot to surrender the fort to the British.

Ah, bad form, Benedict Arnold.

It's National Pecan Cookie Day, World Gratitude Day, and National Miniature Golf Day.

1780, Benedict Arnold gave British Major John Andre plans connected to the American defense of West Point, part of Arnold's infamous attempt to betray the Americans during the Revolutionary War.

1897, the famous editorial Yes Virginia appeared in the New York Sun.

1937, J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit was published.