Ashland Chautauqua Youth Workshop: “The Spectre Bridegroom”: An Interactive Telling of the Story by Washington Irving
Date: 07/23/2026
Time: 02:30 pm-03:30 pm
Location: Ashland Public Library, 224 Claremont Ave., Ashland, OH 44805
Organizer: Ashland Chautauqua
Cost: Free
Contact and more info:
info@ashlandchautauqua.org
https://www.ashlandchautauqua.org/scheduleofevents.php
About the event:
Imagine your bridegroom announcing at the wedding feast: “I am a dead man—the grave is waiting for me!” and springing on his horse and dashing away. In this workshop, children in the audience will help show and tell a ghost story by Irving. Fans of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” will thrill to this similarly spooky story and learn if this Spectre Bridegroom is really a ghost—or not? This workshop is led by scholar John Dennis Anderson who will be portraying Washington Irving on July 24.
The workshop will be held at the Ashland Public Library, 224 Claremont Ave., Ashland.
Ashland Chautauqua’s 5-day America’s Stories event, in celebration of America 250, runs from July 21-25, 2026 with daytime workshops at various locations in Ashland County and living history performances each evening at Guy C. Myers Memorial Band Shell at Brookside Park, Ashland. All events are free, open to the public, accessible and sensory-friendly.