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Johnny Appleseed Day

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Johnny-Appleseed.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 3/13/2000 Johnny Appleseed Day Transcript It’s Johnny Appleseed Day today, marking the death, in 1843, of one of our nation’s most intriguing personages. He was born John Chapman, in 1775 in Leominster, Massachusetts, the son of a Minuteman, Nathaniel Chapman, who could well have […]