Moose Calls on the Mid-Hudson

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 Flute Moose Calls

Well, I had vowed to myself that I would get my New England stories out by the end of summer, and here it is September already – I don’t know about you, but I’m still in denial and convinced it’s still August!

While in Brattleboro, someone tipped me off that if I was heading all the way to Poughkeepsie, NY, that I should just carry on a little further south along the Hudson River to check out Sleepy Hollow. I was immediately intrigued, what with spooky tale of the Headless Horseman, and I have to admit that I didn’t even know that there was a town by that name.

Watching the vegetation close in me around me in the late afternoon as I drove into the area, I decided to do a U-turn and pulled into a gas station to tank up and maybe get directions to the famous bridge. Hawk, pictured, filled me in with info and directions for how to find the Washington Irving estate. Having spotted my Canadian license plates, he and I got talking about moose hunting from when he owned a lodge up in northern Ontario.Turns out, as luck would have it, that unbeknownst to me I had just passed over the famous bridge which was in plain view and barely a pumpkin’s throw back up the 2-lane highway!

This recording catches some of our conversation as I demonstrate my ability to produce a convincing moose call on the the tube of my flute, which clearly meets with Hawk’s approval! Not the first time there have been moose wander through the Urban Flute Project site, it is incredible to think that these giant herbivores once populated this area of the Hudson River where now there is a gas station and the nearby bridge which provided the setting for the headless horseman on his wild ride chasing poor old Ichabod Crane!

More spooky Sleepy Hollow stories on the way…