About the Program
Howard Means, former senior writer and editor for Washingtonian Magazine, recounts the life of John Chapman aka Johnny Appleseed. The author reports that the often mythologized John Chapman (1774-1845) was a voracious land speculator whose westward travels assisted in paving the way for future settlers. Mr. Means relays that Chapman was a vegetarian and pacifist as well an evangelist for the Church of New Jerusalem who's famously planted orchards bore sour fruit more akin to producing hard cider than eating. Howard Means recounts the life of Johnny Appleseed at the Johnny Appleseed Educational Center and Museum at Urbana University in Urbana, Ohio.