He is also disturbed to find another man called Rip Van Winkle it is his son, now grown up.
Van Winkle learns that most of his friends were killed fighting in the American Revolution. King George's portrait on the inn's sign has been replaced with one of George Washington. Never having cast a ballot in his life, he proclaims himself a faithful subject of King George III, unaware that the American Revolution has taken place, and nearly gets himself into trouble with the townspeople until one elderly woman recognizes him as the long-lost Rip Van Winkle. He arrives just after an election, and people ask how he voted. He returns to his village, where he recognizes no one. When he awakens on the mountain, he discovers shocking changes: his musket is rotting and rusty, his beard is a foot long, and his dog is nowhere to be found. Instead, he begins to drink some of their liquor and soon falls asleep. Van Winkle does not ask who they are or how they know his name.
Together, the men and Wolf proceed to a hollow in which Rip discovers the source of thunderous noises: a group of ornately dressed, silent, bearded men who are playing nine-pins.
He hears his name called out and sees a man wearing antiquated Dutch clothing he is carrying a keg up the mountain and requires help. One autumn day, Van Winkle wanders into the mountains with his dog Wolf to escape his wife's nagging. "Rip Van Winkle" is set in the years before and after the American Revolutionary War in a village at the foot of New York's Catskill Mountains where Rip Van Winkle, a Dutch-American villager, lives.
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