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Johnny Appleseed
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Johnny Appleseed
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Johnny Appleseed
“The Legend of Johnny Appleseed”
“...Johnny Appleseed best liked apples to make cider. During that time cider was hard cider, that is, it had alcohol in it. In his bestselling book, The Botany of Desire,” Michael Pollan wrote: “Really, what Johnny Appleseed was doing and the reason he was welcomed in every cabin in Ohio and Indiana was he was bringing the gift of alcohol to the frontier. He was our American Dionysus.” Or, as author Laurie Dove wrote about him in How Stuff Works: “Johnny Appleseed originated the concept of BYOB: bring your own booze!”
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“Johnny Appleseed planted orchards for 50 years in many states. No one knows how many trees he may have planted. But if he averaged more than five per day, he certainly planted over a million trees during his lifetime. He died in 1845. One of his trees still survives on a farm in Nova, Ohio, where Johnny Appleseed is believed to have planted an entire orchard of Rambo apple trees in 1830. The tree still produces fruit and its seeds and cuttings have been used to propagate hundreds of new “Johnny Appleseed” trees throughout the years, making it one of the nation’s most valuable and prolific heritage plants. In fact, the Johnny Appleseed Educational Center and Museum in Urbana, Ohio, transplanted seedlings from this lone survivor in honor of Appleseed’s contributions to agriculture.”
Above text excerpts from, https://www.notesfromthefrontier.com/post/the-legend-of-johnny-appleseed
In doing math on above legend-claim, “he certainly planted over a million trees during his lifetime”, you can make your opinion, but doubtful, look at tomorrow’s post for AFTAOM’s opinion: https://aftaom.substack.com/p/ice-age-and-1000000-trees
“The Real Story Behind “Johnny Appleseed” - JSTOR Daily”
“...Of course, myths are always products of their time, as Kerrigan shows by tracing the Appleseed legend through its many incarnations as Popular Front icon in the 1930s, Cold War hero in the 1950s, 1960’s proto-hippie, and Reagan-era entrepreneurial genius in the 1980s, was well as environmentalist, friend of the natives, and contemporary tourist magnet. A 2011 biography argued that Chapman should be considered insane by our standards.”
Above text taken from https://daily.jstor.org/the-real-story-behind-johnny-appleseed/
Perhaps we can be more creative than what is currently being done about climate change. In the posting “The Great American Bubble Machine” - By Matt Taibbi (https://aftaom.substack.com/p/the-great-american-bubble-machine), we read of shenanigans being put forth by the financial community in the name of “Climate Change.” Maybe let’s be more creative like Johnny Appleseed and plant a few more trees or something more inspiring and effective.
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