The Dead Women of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Get Their Own App

Rama, an iPhone app from Brooklyn-based publisher Crimson Bamboo, allowing users to take narrative, historical walking tours that show them how the locations they visit actually once looked in the past, has come out with a “Sleepy Hollow’s Women” edition.

The app, which is free to users from today, October 28, to the 31st (after which it will cost $1.99), promises to take users on a “mini-hike through the notoriously haunted Sleepy Hollow Cemetery,” visiting the graves of the many historic women laid to rest here.

“Most 
people 
know
 and 
love 
Sleepy
 Hollow 
for
 Washington 
Irving, the
 Headless
 Horseman 
and 
Rip 
Van
 Winkle,” 
tour
 author 
and
 Ossining 
resident, Sarah Whitten‐Grigsby, explained,
 “but 
I
 was 
intrigued 
to
 discover 
that
 there
 are 
many
heroic women 
laid 
to 
rest 
here; women 
who 
changed 
the
 course
 of 
history 
in
remarkably positive
 ways.
 Even
 the
 most 
famous 
men 
interred 
here
 gave 
primary
credit 
for 
their 
success 
to a wife or mother.”

Some of the women included aren’t as heroic as scandalous, because, Whitten-Grigsby said, “We 
all
 thirst 
for
 information
 about 
badly‐behaved 
women,
too.” Featured women include those you may recognize (Leona Helmsley) and those you may not (Sadie Gompers).

The 
tour 
covers 
a 
total
 walking 
distance
 of 
about
 1.7
 miles and 
takes
 about
 80
minutes
 to 
complete. Follow this link to download Rama for free from iTunes, http://bit.ly/iTunesRama, and then choose the Sleepy Hollow tour from here, http://www.crimsonbamboo.com/ramatours/.

Try it out and let us know what you thought!