Nonfiction

A sampling of essays and reporting online and in print, click link to jump to section:

Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Other Stories

A new edition of THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW AND OTHER STORIES by Washington Irving, first published 200 years ago, features an introduction by Krista Madsen.

My Little Red Book

INK BLOTS AND MILK SPOTS, 1987, an essay by Krista Madsen is anthologized in My Little Red Book, edited by Rachel Lauder Nalebuff, 2009 

The Hudson Independent, 2014-2019

• Teen Drinking Parties Put Parents at Risk 

• Growing Together: Introducing the Warner Seed Library

• Troops Bronze’s Award is Malala-Inspired

• Tarrytowners March on Washington

• Lifelong Tree Climber Plants Great Spruce

• All are Welcome at the Neighborhood House

• Washington Irving High School’s Last Class

• Irvington Seniors Having the Time of Their Lives

• Sleepy Hollow Seniors a Tight-Knit Group

• To Say the Name is to Begin to Tell the Story: Future Leaders Explore the Past

• Sunnsyide Art by Seniors Brightens Warner Library

• Socializing a Key Aspect of Tarrytown Senior Center

• Painting by the Numbers on Behalf of At-Risk Teens

• Local WWII Vet Recounts Racism During War and Peace

• Painting a Bridge of Hope to El Salvador 

• Ticked Off: A Small Bug Looms Large in Summer Season

• Sleepy Hollow’s Red-Hatted Women Defy and Celebrate Aging

• Short-Lived, Super-Sized: Lannie Hart’s Mayfly Takes Flight at LIGHTSCAPES

• The Art of Doing Nothing at Buddhist Center in Irvington

• Tappan Zee Bridge Project Not Just a Man’s Job

Patch.com, 2009-2013

• 54 Years a Gravedigger: Frank Drahos is Finally Retiring from the Cemetery He Calls Home

• Hudson Harbor: Who’s Buying, What’s Next?

• Movies Made Here: Recapping the Reviews of 2011

• Shop Talk: Tarrytown Honda’s Dwight Dachnowicz

• Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow Reach Long-Fought Agreement on GM Development

• Sleepy Hollow Mayor Announces Former GM Site Has a Developer

• Sleepy Hollow’s Own Star Female Cop

• Mrs. Green’s Explains its Dumpster Full of Food

• South Broadway Thruway Entrance to Reopen For Two Weeks

• Night Cruise on the Hudson: ‘There’s No Fun in This’ 

• Homeless in his Hometown: Today’s Sunset Brings Hope for Work Tomorrow

• Life After Theresa Gorski

• Rec Department Worker Falls Through Tarrytown Lake Ice

• Mom Spelled Backwards: Tattoo Me

• Movies Made Here, Review Compilation 2011-2012

Book Reviews on BookReporter.com 

• CHOCOLATE by Joanne Harris

• APHRODITE: A Memoir of the Senses by Isabel Allende

• EYES WIDE SHUT/DREAM STORY: Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick and Frederic Raphael 

*And many more! Krista Madsen has also been a reporter for the Bristol Press (Bristol, CT), editor for the College Board, contributor to Shecky's Bar Guide, and in college, a features editor and reporter for the Yale Daily News and contributor to Insiders' Guides to the Colleges.