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Guests mingle with champagne flutes at cocktail tables outside a domed marble mausoleum at golden hour. In the foreground, a woman in a cream blouse chats with a couple beside a blue-clothed table set with champagne and a small white pumpkin, at Champagne Cocktails with the Dead at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Special Events

Guests mingle with champagne flutes at cocktail tables outside a domed marble mausoleum at golden hour. In the foreground, a woman in a cream blouse chats with a couple beside a blue-clothed table set with champagne and a small white pumpkin, at Champagne Cocktails with the Dead at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.

Sepia-toned promotional graphic for "An Ode to Francis Saltus Saltus," with an oval portrait of the poet beside his grave.An Ode to Francis Saltus

Join Sleepy Hollow Cemetery for an evening in honor of illustrious poet, linguist, musician and scholar Francis Saltus Saltus, a name so nice, they gave it to him twice.

Fluent in 10 languages, the ambidextrous Francis was said to be able to write sonnets with one hand while simultaneously composing opera with the other. He was quite a character, to put it mildly.

The epitome of “live fast, die young”, Saltus penned classics like Flasks & Flagons, an ode to 31 beverages including tea, hot chocolate, coffee, water – and 27 kinds of alcohol. It’s no wonder he died at age 40 in 1889.

Enjoy a reading of his delightful poems and quaff an adult beverage or two to get in the right spirit before visiting his grave. It will be the perfect way to pay our respects to the talented Mr. Saltus!

Ages 21+. Seated indoor event; runs rain or shine (grave visit weather permitting).

2026 Date: Wednesday, October 28 from 7:30 – 8:30 p.m.

Tickets: http://sleepyhollowcemetery.org/special-events/