John Chapman was born in 1774 in Leominster, Massachusetts and died nearly 94 years later in Fort Wayne, Indiana where he was more commonly known as Johnny Appleseed. He was a true eccentric who often traveled barefoot dressed in rags and often wore a cooking pot for a hat. Chapman gathered apple seeds from cider mills and planted orchards throughout the Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Illinois  Many of the orchards that he planted were negligible since apple trees grown directly from seeds produce very poor fruit. However, when he revisited some of the orchards that he originally planted, he taught the nearby settlers the art of grafting which did allow the trees to produce quality fruit. 

.Joh's generosity, wit, religious fervor, bizarre dress, and spiritual reverence for animals contributed to the legend of Johnny Appleseed which produced countless stories, plays, poems, songs, and several annual Johnny Appleseed festivals in the  US including on in Sheffield, Pennsylvania that features a lumberjack competition and an apple pie contest. There is also the fantasy video game Wild Arms 5,  the musical, Johnny Appleseed by Nashville composer Billy Edd Wheeler, and a Disney film. In the 1948 Walt Disney feature-length cartoon, Melody Time, an angel appears to Johnny Appleseed, singing an apple song, setting Johnny on a Johnny at the moment of his death, followed by his resurrection in heaven and the commitment to 'sow the clouds' with apple trees.

Michael Turay in the title role of the musical Johnny Appleseed

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