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34-409: The bridge is named after the 1819 short story of the same name by Washington Irving , which mentions Hudson and Catskill. The bridge was built by the newly created New York State Bridge Authority , opening on July 2, 1935, at a cost of $ 2.4 million ($ 53,340,000 with inflation). A fireworks display marked the 50th anniversary of the bridge's construction in 1985. A multi-year repainting project

68-636: A Dutch-American villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who meets mysterious Dutchmen, imbibes their strong liquor and falls deeply asleep in the Catskill Mountains . He awakes 20 years later to a very changed world, having missed the American Revolution . Inspired by a conversation on nostalgia with his American expatriate brother-in-law, Irving wrote the story while temporarily living in Birmingham , England. It

102-768: A 130-mile (210 km) stretch, from the Outerbridge Crossing in the south to the Rip Van Winkle Bridge in the north, were also changed to eastbound-only at that time. In 2019, the bridge authority announced that tolls on its Hudson River crossings would increase each year beginning in 2020 and ending in 2023. On May 1, 2021, the toll for passenger cars traveling eastbound on the Mid-Hudson Bridge went to $ 1.75 in cash and $ 1.45 for E-ZPass users. In May 2022, tolls increased to $ 1.55 for E-ZPass users and $ 2 for toll-by-mail payers. In 2023,

136-456: A flagon refers to a glass vessel filled with beer available in public bars or bottle stores. Drinkers could take their own washed flagons or swap their empties for those pre-filled, corked, and ready for sale. The flagon was followed by the half-gallon (2.27 L) jar and was preceded by the square rigger and the bluey. These were commonly used during the period of six-o'clock closing of bars. A flagon can hold different volumes of beer or wine and

170-492: A man planting a carob tree and asked him about it. The man explained that the tree would take 70 years to bear fruit and that he was planting it not for himself but for the generations to follow him. Later that day, Honi sat down to rest but fell asleep for 70 years; when he awoke, he saw a man picking fruit from a fully mature carob tree. Asked whether he had planted it, the man replied that he had not but that his grandfather had planted it for him. In Christian tradition, there

204-458: A person traveling at near light speed would experience only the passage of a few years but would return to find centuries had passed on Earth, provides a broad new scope to express essentially the same literary theme – for example, in the opening chapter of Ursula K. Le Guin 's Rocannon's World . In Robert Heinlein 's Time for the Stars , Earth sends out a fleet of relativistic ships to explore

238-573: A trading firm. The two were reminiscing in June 1818 when Irving was suddenly inspired by their nostalgic conversation. Irving locked himself in his room and wrote nonstop all night. As he said, he felt like a man waking from a long sleep. He presented the first draft of "Rip Van Winkle" to the van Wart family over breakfast. "Rip Van Winkle" was one of the first stories Irving proposed for his new book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Irving asked his brother Ebenezer to assist with publication in

272-411: A voice calling his name and finds a man dressed in old-fashioned Dutch clothing and carrying a keg. Rip helps the man carry his burden to a cleft in the rocks from which thunderous noises are emanating; the source proves to be a group of bearded men wearing similar outfits playing nine-pin bowling . Not asking who these men are or how they know his name, Rip joins them in drinking flagons of alcohol from

306-408: Is a large leather, metal, glass, plastic or ceramic vessel, used for storing and pouring drink, whether this be water, ale, or another liquid. They are generally not intended to be drunk from directly, like a cup . A flagon is typically of about 2 imperial pints (1.1 L) in volume , and it has either a handle (when strictly it is a jug ), or (more usually) one or two rings at the neck. Sometimes

340-476: Is a similar, well-known story of "The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus ", which recounts a group of early Christians who hid in a cave circa 250 AD to escape the persecution of Christians during the reign of the Roman emperor Decius . They fell into a miraculous sleep and woke some 200 years later during the reign of Theodosius II to discover that the city and the whole Empire had become Christian. This Christian story

374-470: Is located at the top of Kaaterskill Clove in New York's Catskill Mountains, where the story is set. Rip Van Winkle, a Dutch-American man with a habit of avoiding useful work, lives in a village at the foot of the Catskill Mountains in the years before the American Revolution . One day, he goes squirrel hunting in the mountains with his dog, Wolf, to escape his wife's nagging. As evening falls, he hears

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408-760: Is recounted by Islam and appears in a famous Sura of the Quran , Sura Al-Kahf . The version recalls a group of young monotheists escaping from persecution within a cave and emerging hundreds of years later. Another similar story in the Islamic tradition is of Uzair (usually identified with the Biblical Ezra ), whose grief at the Destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians was so great that God took his soul and brought him back to life after Jerusalem

442-641: Is the vessel that contains the wine to be consecrated. If more than one chalice is used during the administration of Communion, the flagon (or an additional cruet filled with wine and water) is placed on the altar at the Offertory, and other chalices are brought to the altar after the Breaking of the Bread. There should be only one chalice on the altar during the Great Thanksgiving. In New Zealand,

476-525: The Eucharist and then be poured into many chalices. This pouring of sacramental wine from flagon to chalice was eliminated. A smaller container called a cruet is used for the priest's chalice, usually identical to the cruet of water, which is mingled with the wine before consecration. The cruets do not remain on the altar after the preparation of the gifts. In the Anglican Church, the flagon

510-514: The Sketch Book . Following the success of "Rip Van Winkle" in print and onstage, later celebrated editions were illustrated by Arthur Rackham (Heinemann, 1905) and N.C. Wyeth (McKay, 1921). One story in Judaism concerns Honi HaMe'agel , a miracle-working sage of the 1st century BC, who was a historical character but to whom various myths were attached. While traveling one day, Honi saw

544-581: The E-ZPass toll rose to $ 1.65, and the mail-in toll increased to $ 2.15. At midnight on November 1, 2021, the bridge was converted to all-electronic tolling. This article about a bridge in New York is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Rip Van Winkle " Rip Van Winkle " ( Dutch pronunciation: [ˈrɪp fɑŋ ˈʋɪŋkəl] ) is a short story by the American author Washington Irving , first published in 1819. It follows

578-686: The Orkney story. The story has been adapted for other media over the past two centuries, in cartoons, films, stage plays, music, and other media. There is a statue of Rip Van Winkle in Irvington, New York. A sculpture of Rip Van Winkle can also be found near the summit of the Hunter Mountain Ski Resort in the Catskills. The name Rip Van Winkle has been used to name: Flagon A flagon ( / ˈ f l æ ɡ ən / )

612-530: The United States. As Irving wrote, "I shall feel very anxious to hear of the success of this first re-appearance on the literary stage – Should it be successful, I trust I shall be able henceforth to keep up an occasional fire." A British edition was published shortly afterward, by John Miller, who went out of business immediately thereafter. With help from his friend Walter Scott , Irving was able to convince John Murray to take over British publication of

646-586: The election that has just been held, he declares himself a loyal subject of George III , unaware that the American Revolutionary War has taken place in his absence. He learns that many of his old friends either were killed in the war or have left the village and is disturbed to find a young man who shares his name, mannerisms, and younger appearance. A young woman states that her father is Rip Van Winkle, who has been missing for 20 years, and an old woman recognizes him as Rip. The young woman and

680-436: The galaxy, their crews hailed as stalwart pioneers – but after a century, which they experience as only a few years, faster-than-light ships are developed and the earlier ones are recalled, their crews discovering that they had become unwanted anachronisms on a changed Earth. The protagonist notices a newspaper headline disparagingly announcing the arrival of himself and his shipmates as "yet another crew of Rip Van Winkles". In

714-503: The keg he has helped carry and soon becomes so intoxicated that he falls asleep. Rip awakens on a sunny morning, at the spot where he first saw the keg-carrier, and finds that many drastic changes have occurred; his beard is a foot long and has turned gray, his musket is badly deteriorated, and Wolf is nowhere to be found. Returning to his village, he discovers it to be larger than he remembers and filled with people in unfamiliar clothing, none of whom recognize him. When asked how he voted in

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748-637: The major political changes during his slumber) and begins telling his story to every stranger who visits the village. The tale is solemnly taken to heart (despite some assuming him to be insane) by the settlers, particularly by the children who say that, whenever thunder is heard, the men in the mountains must be playing ninepins. After a failed business venture with his brothers, Irving filed for bankruptcy in 1818. Despondent, he turned to writing for possible financial support, although he had difficulty thinking of stories to write . He stayed in Birmingham , England, where his brother-in-law Henry van Wart had opened

782-401: The neck has a large flange at the top rather than rings. The neck itself may or may not be formed into one, two or three spouts. The name comes from the same origin as the word "flask". As a Roman Catholic term of use, the flagon is the large vessel, usually glass and metal, that holds the wine. Before March 2002, a flagon may have also been used to hold the wine during the consecration of

816-433: The rule of Mongol invaders – whereupon he places himself at the head of the freedom fighters. In Roger Zelazny 's science-fantasy series The Chronicles of Amber , protagonist Corwyn experiences drinking and revelry in an underground lair with otherworldly people who try to entice him into slumber; he knows this is a centuries-of-sleep trap and resists; the passage is similar in theme to both "Rip Van Winkle" and especially

850-478: The sheep but could not find it, so he returned to his father's farm, only to discover that it was under new ownership. He went home, only to discover that the people there did not know him. Finally, he encountered his younger brother, who had become an old man, and learned that he had been asleep in the cave for fifty-seven years. According to the different sources that Diogenes relates, Epimenides lived to be 154, 157, or 299 years old. Multiple sources have identified

884-434: The story of "Rip Van Winkle". The theme is taken up in numerous modern works of science fiction. In H. G. Wells 's The Sleeper Awakes , a man who sleeps for 203 years wakes up in a completely transformed London, where he has become the richest man in the world. In the original Buck Rogers book, the protagonist falls asleep under the influence of a gas in a mine, sleeps for four centuries, and wakes to find America under

918-399: The story of Epimenides as the earliest known variant of the "Rip Van Winkle" fairy tale. The story of "Rip Van Winkle" itself is widely thought to have been based on Johann Karl Christoph Nachtigal 's German folktale " Peter Klaus ", which is a shorter story set in a German village. It tells of a goatherd named Peter Klaus who goes looking for a lost goat. He finds some men drinking in

952-449: The tenth chapter of his book Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers , the third-century AD Greek historian Diogenes Laërtius relates the story of the legendary sage Epimenides of Knossos , who was said to have been a shepherd on the island of Crete . One day, Epimenides followed after a sheep that had wandered off and after becoming tired, went into a cave under Mount Ida and fell asleep. When he awoke, he continued searching for

986-400: The toll was $ 0.80 ($ 17.78 with inflation) per passenger car and $ 0.10 ($ 2.22 with inflation) per passenger up to $ 1 ($ 22.22 with inflation). Originally, tolls were collected in both directions. In August 1970, the toll was abolished for westbound drivers, and at the same time, eastbound drivers saw their tolls doubled. The tolls of eleven other New York–New Jersey and Hudson River crossings along

1020-506: The woods and after drinking some of their wine, falls asleep. When he wakes up, twenty years have passed. The story also bears some similarities to stories from East Asia, including the third-century AD Chinese tale of " Ranka ", as retold by Lionel Giles in A Gallery of Chinese Immortals , and the eighth-century Japanese tale " Urashima Tarō ". The Hindu story of Muchukunda from the Bhagavatam also displays many similarities to

1054-510: The young Rip are his children, and the former has named her infant son after him as well. Rip discovers that his wife has been dead for some time but is not saddened by the news. He learns via a village elder that the men he met in the mountains are rumored to be ghosts of the crew of the Dutch East India Company ship Halve Maen . His daughter takes him into her home, and he soon resumes his usual idleness (unconcerned by

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1088-496: Was completed in 2009 which removed all lead-based paint. A pedestrian walkway was completed in 2018 on the south side of the bridge. It is open from dawn to dusk. Bicyclists may use the roadway or walk their bikes across the pedestrian walkway. The walkway is also a link on the Hudson River Skywalk, which connects the homes of Hudson River School painters Thomas Cole and Frederic Church . Upon its opening,

1122-556: Was published in his collection, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. While the story is set in New York's Catskill Mountains near where Irving later took up residence, he admitted, "When I wrote the story, I had never been on the Catskills." The Mountain Top Historical Society in Haines Falls, New York, has hosted a community reading of the story every year since 2019. The Mountain Top Historical Society

1156-456: Was reconstructed. He rode on his revived donkey and entered his native place. But the people did not recognize him, nor did his household, except the maid, who was now an old blind woman. He prayed to God to cure her blindness, and she could see again. He meets his son, who recognizes him by a mole between his shoulders and is older than he was. (see Uzair#Islamic tradition and literature ). Albert Einstein 's theory of relativity , under which

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