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
Johnny Depp filmography his roles in "The Curse of the Black Pearl", "Finding Neverland", and "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street", Depp was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. In 2010, Depp was cast as the Mad Hatter in the live-action film "Alice in Wonderland". The same year, he went on to star in "The Tourist" with Angelina Jolie and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Comedy. He has starred in "The Rum Diary" with Amber Heard (2011), "Dark Shadows" with Michelle Pfeiffer (2012), "The Lone Ranger" with Armie Hammer (2013),