Download or read book Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard written by William Kerrigan and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh look at American icon Johnny “Appleseed” Chapman and the story of the apple. Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard illuminates the meaning of Johnny "Appleseed" Chapman’s life and the environmental and cultural significance of the plant he propagated. Creating a startling new portrait of the eccentric apple tree planter, William Kerrigan carefully dissects the oral tradition of the Appleseed myth and draws upon material from archives and local historical societies across New England and the Midwest. The character of Johnny Appleseed stands apart from other frontier heroes like Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone, who employed violence against Native Americans and nature to remake the West. His apple trees, nonetheless, were a central part of the agro-ecological revolution at the heart of that transformation. Yet men like Chapman, who planted trees from seed rather than grafting, ultimately came under assault from agricultural reformers who promoted commercial fruit stock and were determined to extend national markets into the West. Over the course of his life John Chapman was transformed from a colporteur of a new ecological world to a curious relic of a pre-market one. Weaving together the stories of the Old World apple in America and the life and myth of John Chapman, Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard casts new light on both.
Download or read book Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard written by William Kerrigan and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard illuminates the meaning of Johnny "Appleseed" Chapman's life and the environmental and cultural significance of the plant he propagated. Creating a startling new portrait of the eccentric apple tree planter, William Kerrigan carefully dissects the oral tradition of the Appleseed myth and draws upon material from archives and local historical societies across New England and the Midwest. The character of Johnny Appleseed stands apart from other frontier heroes like Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone, who employed violence against Native Americans and nature to remake the West. His apple trees, nonetheless, were a central part of the agro-ecological revolution at the heart of that transformation. Yet men like Chapman, who planted trees from seed rather than grafting, ultimately came under assault from agricultural reformers who promoted commercial fruit stock and were determined to extend national markets into the West. Over the course of his life John Chapman was transformed from a colporteur of a new ecological world to a curious relic of a pre-market one. Weaving together the stories of the Old World apple in America and the life and myth of John Chapman, Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard casts new light on both. -- James Gilbert, University of Maryland
Download or read book Johnny Appleseed a Pioneer Orchardist written by E. R. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Johnny Appleseed written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Johnny Appleseed Orchardist Classic Reprint written by Fort Wayne and Allen County Library and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-14 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Johnny Appleseed, Orchardist Johnny's religious nature and early vocational interest in fruitgrowing provided fertile soil for nurturing an intense feeling of responsibility to provide nursery stock for the white settlers on the frontier. In his self-appointed vocation he manifested, as in everything else an intense religious fervor, even deifying the ap ple as a divine favor and gift to man. Johnny rejected all pruning and grafting of nursery stocks, for he believed that to cut or prune a tree was as cruel and unprincipled as to maim a human being, hence morally wrong. Johnny spent some time in western Penn sylvania and many years in Ohio where he roamed the valleys of the Muskingum River and its tributaries. He repeatedly stated that the two chief objectives of his life were to make apples avail able to all and to preach the doctrines of Emanuel Swedenborg. The purveyance of nursery stock afforded him opportunities to propagate the Swedenborgian faith. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Johnny Appleseed a Pioneer Orchardist written by E. R. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Johnny Appleseed Orchardist written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Who Was Johnny Appleseed written by Joan Holub and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-09-08 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect biography to "bite into" at the start of a new school year! Children are sure to be fascinated by the eccentric and legendary Johnny Appleseed, a man who is best known for bringing apple trees to the midwest. Over John Chapman’s lifetime, he saw the country grow and start to spread westward. Traveling alone— in bare feet and sporting a pot on his head!—Johnny left his own special mark planting orchards that helped nourish new communities. His journeys and adventures are illustrated in a hundred black-and-white illustrations.
Download or read book Johnny Appleseed written by Howard Means and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Finally, the cliché is peeled away and the essence of this utterly American character is so revealing. John Chapman comes alive here and it is a thrilling experience to escape the specific gravity of the decades of myth” (Ken Burns). This portrait of Johnny Appleseed restores the flesh-and-blood man beneath the many myths. It captures the boldness of an iconic American and the sadness of his last years, as the frontier marched past him, ever westward. And it shows how death liberated the legend and made of Johnny a barometer of the nation’s feelings about its own heroic past and the supposed Eden it once had been. Howard Means does for America’s inner frontier what Stephen Ambrose’s Undaunted Courage did for its western one.
Download or read book Johnny Appleseed written by Jodie Shepherd and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how Johnny Appleseed grew from a young boy who loved the outdoors into the legendary man who spread apple trees all across the United States.
Download or read book The Botany of Desire written by Michael Pollan and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2002-05-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Pollan shines a light on our own nature as well as on our implication in the natural world.” —The New York Times “A wry, informed pastoral.” —The New Yorker The book that helped make Michael Pollan, the New York Times bestselling author of How to Change Your Mind, Cooked and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, one of the most trusted food experts in America Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. He masterfully links four fundamental human desires—sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control—with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato. In telling the stories of four familiar species, Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankind’s most basic yearnings. And just as we’ve benefited from these plants, we have also done well by them. So who is really domesticating whom?
Download or read book Johnny Appleseed My Story written by David L. Harrison and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2010-04-14 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johnny Appleseed was an important historical figure, well known for planting apple orchards across the new frontier. But he was also a master storyteller! In his own folksy voice, Johnny Appleseed tells his story to a couple of entranced children in this fictionalized Step 2 title. Readers learn how he started planting apple trees—and about some of the myths and true stories of his life.
Download or read book Johnny Appleseed written by and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2003 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the life story of John Chapman, whose distribution of apple seeds and trees across the Midwest made him a legend of tall tales and left a legacy still enjoyed today.
Download or read book Inventing Stonewall Jackson written by Wallace Hettle and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2011-05-06 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians' attempts to understand legendary Confederate General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson have proved uneven at best and often contentious. An occasionally enigmatic and eccentric college professor before the Civil War, Jackson died midway through the conflict, leaving behind no memoirs and relatively few surviving letters or documents. In Inventing Stonewall Jackson, Wallace Hettle offers an innovative and distinctive approach to interpreting Stonewall by examining the lives and agendas of those authors who shape our current understanding of General Jackson. Newspaper reporters, friends, relatives, and fellow soldiers first wrote about Jackson immediately following the Civil War. Most of them, according to Hettle, used portions of their own life stories to frame that of the mythic general. Hettle argues that the legend of Jackson's rise from poverty to power was likely inspired by the rags-to-riches history of his first biographer, Robert Lewis Dabney. Dabney's own successes and Presbyterian beliefs probably shaped his account of Jackson's life as much as any factual research. Many other authors inserted personal values into their stories of Stonewall, perplexing generations of historians and writers. Subsequent biographers contributed their own layers to Jackson's myth and eventually a composite history of the general came to exist in the popular imagination. Later writers, such as the liberal suffragist Mary Johnston, who wrote a novel about Jackson, and the literary critic Allen Tate, who penned a laudatory biography, further shaped Stonewall's myth. As recently as 2003, the film Gods and Generals, which featured Jackson as the key protagonist, affirmed the longevity and power of his image. Impeccable research and nuanced analysis enable Hettle to use American culture and memory to reframe the Stonewall Jackson narrative and provide new ways to understand the long and contended legacy of one of the Civil War's most popular Confederate heroes.
Download or read book Orchard Bounty written by Guinean Domoda Peanut Stew Joint and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-01-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into a world where the crisp scent of ripe apples dances through the air, and the orchards stretch as far as the eye can see. ''Orchard Bounty: 99 Culinary Creations Inspired by Johnny Appleseed'' invites you on a gastronomic journey that weaves together the enchanting legacy of Johnny Appleseed with the irresistible allure of delectable dishes. This cookbook is a celebration of the bountiful orchards, the humble apple, and the timeless fairy tale that inspired it all. Johnny Appleseed, a legendary figure in American folklore, captivates hearts with his whimsical story of spreading apple seeds across the frontier, sowing the seeds of sustenance and sweetness. ''Orchard Bounty'' pays homage to this folklore icon by bringing to life 99 culinary masterpieces that echo the spirit of adventure, resilience, and the simple joys of life that Johnny Appleseed embodied. Within the pages of this cookbook, you will embark on a culinary adventure inspired by the magic and folklore surrounding Johnny Appleseed. From the moment you open the cover, the aroma of freshly picked apples and the essence of orchard blossoms will transport you to a world where each recipe tells a tale of its own. These dishes, carefully curated and crafted, blend traditional flavors with a touch of whimsy, mirroring the character of Johnny Appleseed himself. As you flip through the pages, you'll discover a diverse array of recipes that showcase the versatility of apples. From the classic apple pie that brings warmth to family gatherings to the innovative apple-infused savory dishes that add a twist to your dinner table, each recipe encapsulates the essence of the orchard bounty. Whether you're a seasoned chef or a kitchen novice, the instructions are designed to be approachable, allowing you to bring the magic of Johnny Appleseed into your own kitchen. The connection between food and folklore is woven throughout ''Orchard Bounty.'' Each recipe is a story in itself, inspired by the tales of Johnny Appleseed's travels and the communities he touched. From the quaint apple orchards of New England to the bustling kitchens of the frontier, this cookbook captures the spirit of a bygone era while infusing it with a modern culinary flair. Beyond the delightful recipes, ''Orchard Bounty'' is a celebration of sustainable and mindful eating. With a nod to the environmental consciousness of Johnny Appleseed, the cookbook explores ways to minimize food waste, maximize the use of locally sourced ingredients, and embrace the farm-to-table philosophy. Prepare to embark on a culinary journey that transcends time and space. ''Orchard Bounty: 99 Culinary Creations Inspired by Johnny Appleseed'' is not just a cookbook; it's a testament to the enduring magic of folklore, the richness of culinary traditions, and the timeless love affair between humanity and the apple orchard. So, tie on your apron, sharpen your knives, and let the adventure begin as we savor the orchard bounty inspired by the legendary Johnny Appleseed.
Download or read book Johnny Appleseed written by Eleanor Atkinson and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true adventures of Jonathan Chapman, who braved the unfriendly wilderness to bring apple trees and brotherly love to America's new frontier.
Download or read book Better Known as Johnny Appleseed written by Mabel Leigh Hunt and published by HarperCollins Children's Books. This book was released on 1950 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed, based on the author's life-long study of the beloved American pioneer, missionary, and apple lover.
