PH as Rip Van Winkle: How we woke up to a national life starved of art, culture and creativity

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REMEMBER the story of Rip Van Winkle, as told by American author Washington Irving and first published in 1819. The story follows a Dutch-American villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who meets mysterious Dutchmen, imbibes their liquor and falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains.