Ichabod Crane Central School District in 1809, where he wrote the satire, 'A History of New York'. Later, he wrote the short stories Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow which take place regionally. The Kinderhook school district is named "Ichabod Crane". for the Irving character, Ichabod Crane, which was based on the original Kinderhook schoolmaster named Jesse Merwin. Irving and Merwin became friends in Kinderhook, where they boarded together at the Van Ness home, and the two friends continued a pen-pal correspondence for thirty years. The Columbia County Historical Society (New York) owns the original Kinderhook Schoolhouse named after the Irving character
Do It for Johnny their quest to hand deliver the guitar and script to Johnny Depp, all the while filming their journey. Portions of this documentary were filmed in Denver, Colorado, Dallas, Texas, and Los Angeles, California. When the film debuted at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, "Variety" referred to it as a "notable premiere". The film won "best documentary" at the 2007 Rainier Independent Film Festival. Do It for Johnny Do It For Johnny is a 2007 documentary film developed by Haylar Garcia and Scott Baxendale, and directed by Garcia about how a group of indie filmmakers try to get Johnny Depp