Rip Van Winkle

Rip Van Winkle is the story of a man who is liked by everybody in town, despite this he has trouble at home from a nagging wife who gets on to him for being to lazy; he just wants to have fun. Much of this nagging causes him to leave the house with his dog Wolf, and do just that, going squirrel hunting in the Kaatskil Mountains.

One day he left to squirrel hunt one day and found some rather odd people. These people were short and strange looking, still human but more dwarven like. They were carrying kegs up the mountain and apparently having a party. Rip Van Winkle watched curiously on the weird party of strangers, eventually letting this get the best of him and took a sip of Gin they were drinking while they weren't looking and then passed out out in the wilderness. He awoke to find what he thought was a rusty gun someone had switched with his when they stole it, and he couldn't find his dog when he tried to whistle for him.

Unable to find his dog or the people he had seen the night before he ventured back to town to find that it was completly different. The people were new, with no site of anybody he had known the previous day and his house was abandon with no site of his family and a dog outside that, although resembled Wolf, did not remember Rip at all. He goes to what he thought were his usual spots and found them replaced with other things, such as a new star spangled flag. Unknowing to Rip, the American Revolution had occured and people were different now, more uppity and ready than the towns previous citizens. The people found rip odd and questioned him, finding that he was very confused and had no idea how old he was or even if he was himself after pointing out what was apparently Rip Van Winkle. They all realized he had been out for about 20 years and all of the people he knew were dead or had moved on to other things and his son was the new Rip Van Winkle. After these realizations passed, Rip was able to adapt and live fine in the town, telling his story to many people.