Where did YOU first learn about Johnny Appleseed? 🍎 And what figure or story from folklore should I cover next? 🧐
@nellywilliams27768 ай бұрын
Elementary school in the 80s
@matthewcummings18538 ай бұрын
I have absolutely no idea
@itsjustwhy8 ай бұрын
First hour Squad
@shejwjjwbsnsjs8 ай бұрын
Folk tale
@Roscoetherev8 ай бұрын
I live in the area that he lived prior to moving to Fort Wayne. I used to be a part of the Scout Troop 106, that he ran from Mansfield to Mt. Vernon to get reinforcements for the Blockhouse in Mansfield during the Indian uprising in 1812. The Blockhouse is still open and on display now from that historical time.
@jackiewepps46948 ай бұрын
As a European, my first introduction to Johnny Appleseed was... This video. Thank you! I learned a lot of new things today.
@JonSolo8 ай бұрын
That’s so awesome! I’m glad to share a little of our culture with ya. Thanks for watching!
@fathomgathergood76908 ай бұрын
I thought you had Disney in Europe
@1LimitedGirlEdition6 ай бұрын
@@fathomgathergood7690We do have Disney in Europe, but Ive never heard of this movie nor Johnny Appleseed
@ChrisGradyAMVs6 ай бұрын
@@fathomgathergood7690 most people have not seen that movie
@admiralmonocle38745 ай бұрын
@@fathomgathergood7690 Yes, we have, but not everything is popular here. Like this is something only hardcore Disney fans would've watched.
@funkydirk37978 ай бұрын
Wasn’t there also a thing about property ownership at the time if you planted trees/crops on it, making Johnny one of the largest landowners in US history?
@darriendastar39418 ай бұрын
I don't know if he was one of the largest landowner, but I can vaguely remember there beign some long-running legal case about who owned all the orchards he left after he died.
@MrChristianDT8 ай бұрын
He didn't keep the land. I've heard two interpretations- one was that this was his job. He would create these orchards, raise them until he got legal control of the land, then sold it to other parties from back east. The other interpretation was he was just giving the land away to other settlers.
@Loralanthalas8 ай бұрын
The Homestead Act required improvement and also living on the claim. Even then: US government stole back anything they want for mining. They still do that through today, actually.
@Vicus_of_Utrecht8 ай бұрын
No.
@AGP5107 ай бұрын
I hear he kinda taught farmers how to take care of the apple trees in a community then leave when they knew enough and mov to the next town so the farmers would own the land and his precious apples would live on
@yogosapphire8 ай бұрын
My grandpa was an orchardist and had a tree that he used for practicing grafting. When we were kids, we called it the tree of many apples because it grew different varieties on one tree.
@Evilnor78 ай бұрын
The Johnny Appleseed gravesite is also the site of the Johnny Appleseed Festival, held around Labor Day. Historical reenactment, music, entertainment, craft vendors, and a farmer's market (which you can buy cider at, fyi) make for a good time, every year.
@theanimeunderworld83388 ай бұрын
I remember Adam Ruins Everything telling me the real JA created a safer way for people to drink And that was by creating enough apples for apple cider, which was healthier than the water they had at the time
@TheCommenterDragon8 ай бұрын
Even if Johnny Appleseed's origins aren't all sunshine and rainbows, He's still one of my all time favorite American legends! Hell, It's because of him back when I was in school I took up a habit of collecting appleseeds every time I ate an apple for lunch! I collected enough seeds to plant an orchard, Though I never did plant any of them.
@theanimeunderworld83388 ай бұрын
There was someone in my class who was all about agriculture so we called him Johnny Apple For me, I was 6'4 so I was Paul Bunyon
@TheCommenterDragon8 ай бұрын
@@theanimeunderworld8338 I see, Also fun fact: Even though I never planted any of the appleseeds that I collected, I still kept them all and they're still just sitting in a box to this day. Because you never know I might plant them someday.
@Behold_I_am_Egg8 ай бұрын
I have a jar of apple seeds sitting in my fridge still too, after years of collecting them, that I continue to add to (though I've only sprouted a few of them so far). My main issue holding me back is that I have depression, so when the sprouted lil baby apple plants that I had been taking care of all died when I forgot to tend to them as much as I should, I got too disheartened to try again, until I have the energy to remember to take care of them better. They just sit in that jar for now, waiting for better times to be sprouted and planted. 😅 Someday I'll have a bunch of apple trees, though! 😁
@beckythornton64708 ай бұрын
@@Behold_I_am_Egg You could sit and wait for EVER! I have an idea, make one small task a day. Like to brush teeth well, or get dressed, or read one page of a book you want to read. Build on these. We can talk ourselves into catatonia if someone lets us, LOL! One small thing towards my health and well being is a requirement I live by. It may be anything. Connect with life, by watering a plant, feeding your dog, washing your body, or any task that furthers life and connection to it. This advice saved me when I thought I couldn't go on. As well as approaching life by being immensely grateful for what I have, as opposed to bitching about what I perceive as lacking in my life. I think about the fact that I don't have to go to the river and beat my clothes on a rock to clean them, That I store a weeks worth of food at a time because I have a fridge, that I can go 70 miles an hour in a car and be far away in a couple hours. These are amazing and wonderful things. And if I am thinking on these kind of facts.....I forget to get sad and broody. And I didn't have to swallow a pill to do it. I understand that there are conditions that require other approaches and meds, but I wonder if some simple stuff can actually help a lot. So before we haul out the big guns....lets try some small things, and not talk ourselves into being utterly helpless and wishing for some nebulous and ethereal "someday, when I feel better, I will_______(fill in your own blank). Start doing one tiny thing towards "someday" everyday . The results can be surprising. And this comes with a lifetime money back guarantee . You really can't loose.
@davidfitzpatrick65358 ай бұрын
"OH the Lord is good to me and so I thank the Lord for giving me the things I need the sun and the rain and the apple seed the Lord is good to me Johnny Appleseed Amen." This is the grace my public school JK teacher (can't remember her name but I remember her doing this before religion was banned in public schools) would always sing before we ate lunch. It was the first grace I remember learning.
@catherinemerrill55118 ай бұрын
We sang that too, when gratitude to a gracious and benevolent Father were understood!
@cristlejohnson49008 ай бұрын
In Girl Scout camp, it was a grace we only said if it was raining because otherwise it would make it rain. We had other graces to sing for sunny days.
@davidfitzpatrick65358 ай бұрын
@@cristlejohnson4900 Do they still say grace in the scouts? Might be an American vs Canadian thing cause I think in Canadian scouts they don't encourage religion.
@cristlejohnson49008 ай бұрын
@@davidfitzpatrick6535 Well I'm 37 and back when I was a Girl Scout it was very Christian (you didn't have to be though) our Scout promise for both boys and girls has serving God and our country in it. I know it's been changed a little though. We always sang one fun grace or another at actual camp.
@davidfitzpatrick65358 ай бұрын
@@cristlejohnson4900 Yeah I think that shows the decade age gap (and possibly country) as im 29 and I remember when I was in JK in 1999 and September 2000 (I moved in October 2000) we sang that at lunch and then in PS we were allowed to advertise for our Church March break (Spring break in the States) camp but when I was in HS the gov't banned religious material in the schools so we're no longer allowed to advertise a bible camp or sing traditional Christmas carols etc. It depends on where u are for example if ur'e in Northern Ontario they still do tradition carols because its f u govt u cant tell us what to do while in the cities like Toronto its very no traditional Christmas songs that mention the Nativity. Some school districts dont even do a holiday concert anymore.
@beatrizjardim83088 ай бұрын
I loved learning about Johnny Appleseed. Love from Brazil.
@pamelamays41868 ай бұрын
I grew up believing that Johnny Appleseed was just some dude bebopping around the frontier tossing apples seed as he moseyed along.
@ender46527 ай бұрын
Not just me then
@pikminguy558 ай бұрын
Please do messed up origins for... Robin Hood (thats one Disney classic you have yet to cover) Sword in the Stone (I know you covered that in the Lion King somewhat but some more would be nice) Oliver and Company (It is based on Oliver Twist after all) Who Framed Roger Rabbit (The original book Who Censored Roger Rabbit...wowsers) Treasure Planet (It is based on Treasure Island) Tom Sawyer Three Musceteers
@solidonseraindogthetenth16798 ай бұрын
Yes. That sounds cool.
@gingaddict7 ай бұрын
I would like to suggest Davy Crockett and Billy the kid- it ties into the idea of myths and legends
@SeXiMoNkEy958 ай бұрын
"Leominster " is pronounced "Lemon Stir" Thanks for another great video!
@behindthescenesphotos51338 ай бұрын
And Pecos is pronounced "Pay-kos" not "Pee-kos."
@cutekitten52988 ай бұрын
OMG LEOMINSTER THAT'S MY HOME TOWN!! every year we host the Johnny Appleseed Festival in honor of this tale and the man himself. its a fun little block party I've been going to since I was 4 years old. ^^
@shaylabradwell76518 ай бұрын
I'm from worcester, hearing it pronounced like that was so weird😅
@ziggydoesstardust71448 ай бұрын
I'm from Fitchburg haha was funny to hear Jon say it like that. Everybody does the first few times lol
@Kimar77798 ай бұрын
@@shaylabradwell7651 It's LEM-INSTER, no? I have family from that area we used to go to both Leominster and Worcester (WOO-STER) every summer!
@shaylabradwell76518 ай бұрын
@Kimar7779 yeah but can't blame anyone for mispronounced it, the names here are ridiculous
@trinigirlcharlie65598 ай бұрын
I'm in Eastie (East Boston for those unfamiliar!) and got a hoot out of his pronunciation! I came to the comments section to see how many folks chimed in with the correct pronunciation 😂😂! Quincy is another fun one to hear pronounced! 😊😊
@Roscoetherev8 ай бұрын
Th ere are a few history books from the 1800’s at the Mansfield Richland County Public Library in the Sherman Room that have some first hand stories about John Chapman and his heroics during the Native American Uprising in retaliation of the Gnudenhaten massacre near Schoenbraun Village. Shortly after this, he ran over 20+ miles for reinforcements to save Mansfield, Ohio. Local native author to Ohio, Alan W Eckert mentioned some of these stories in his books.
@serenalunara75338 ай бұрын
I heard about Johnny Appleseed from the Disney cartoon one morning as a kid. Thank you for another great video.
@Rylosalex8 ай бұрын
me too
@YouPapaPeep8 ай бұрын
Johnny test “Johnny applesauce”
@bellissimo90488 ай бұрын
Wow I’m from Leominster Massachusetts (it’s pronounced lemon stir btw) and I didn’t even know he was a well known name in the rest of the country!
@cristlejohnson49008 ай бұрын
In Girl Scout camp, it was a superstition that singing the "Johnny Appleseed song" would make it rain.
@ginnyjollykidd8 ай бұрын
Back in the 1940's and earlier, it was common for women to sew dresses from flour sacks, and the companies selling the flour even gave pretty patterns to the sacks for this practice. I can see how a coffee sack would be as good a clothing as any other.
@rebasack218 ай бұрын
I knew that the apples he grew were not really edible and almost soley used for booze. I didnt know about the religious angle or the extreme hate for grafting. I think i assumed he grew from seeds since keeping any cuttings to graft with from dying while traveling would have been near impossible considering he walked everywhere and even a wagon train would be very slow.
@SpachelForeman8 ай бұрын
you should talk the Mabinogion branch 2 and talk more about King Arthur, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Norse, and English Mythology. Talk about Tam lin and Thomas the rhymer, and Fionn mac Cumhaill. Talk more about elves, fairies, Tylwyth Teg, and the Tuatha De Danann and the Daoine Sidhe.
@zehavathezamboni8 ай бұрын
That painting of Johnny Appleseed makes it look like he’s Lincoln wearing a disguise
@VictoriaGates8 ай бұрын
Swedenborgs books are super fascinating. I can see why Johnny followed it.
@masonsellers51908 ай бұрын
To be honest it’s been a minute since I heard the name Johnny Appleseed
@ericacook28628 ай бұрын
Fort Wayne here. Fun fact about his grave: it's actually one of a dozen or so graves claiming to have his grave, but ours is the oldest one on record. I was taught that we can't know for sure that it is his, but we can show it respect as if it were for the good he did in life. Another little fact about him is that when he would visit families with children, he would make dolls out of dried apples for the little girls because usually there weren't extra materials to give little girls toys to play with. He would take the dried-out apples and make them little old ladies in scraps he had or found so they would have something to play with. There's also a Jonney Apple Seed festival every September here, but that's become a cash grab. It's still cool to see, though, because it's all period, and everyone involved in booths and alike must be in period clothes and sell period items.
@katherinevallo23268 ай бұрын
I learned about Johnny Appleseed in school. Of course, I later learned when I was a teen that he planted cider apples from my history teacher.
@raccoonvallie8 ай бұрын
The earliest memories I have is Jonny appleseed and Paul bunion
@TDay-uk6dq8 ай бұрын
wow, mr. beast really caught a stray
@Goz867 ай бұрын
Johhny Appleseed is from Leominster MA. (Pronounced Lemon-sta. Its a massachusetts thing we dont pronounce our Rs) . His shrine is on Johnny Appleseed Lane. Ive been there a few times, its a nice setup that the town did for him. I went to JA school for 3rd and 4th grade.
@3ch1dna078 ай бұрын
My oldest son is training to be a forest ranger and they say that Johnny Appleseed was the first eco terrorist. They said that he probably ruined more habitats by introducing a foreign plant than helped.
@thecrippledpancake94558 ай бұрын
Ruin is a strong word here
@RoseWaltz8 ай бұрын
not too mention that apples don't grow true to seed - you need to graft cuttings onto a host tree to ensure you get good apples
@agentorange818 ай бұрын
The last thing anyone worried of back then was eco systems if he was a eco terrorist he wasn't alone at all
@Vicus_of_Utrecht8 ай бұрын
@@agentorange81The history of Life was being foreign. "Invasive" species is a rtarded term. Hell the only actual ecoterrorists are those trying to ban the essence of Life, CO2
@y345vash96 ай бұрын
🙄
@iamcoolalot8 ай бұрын
that johnny appleseed cartoon thing unlocked a memory holy shit
@NinuFulMetal8 ай бұрын
Being from a smaller area, i had heard about johnny appleseed. The basics anyway.
@brianadiaz9268 ай бұрын
Awesome video as ALWAYS! Have you ever read the villains by Disney series? If not there is a great read and interesting story line laced in each one. Would also make a GREAT video or series😊
@amyeaton8828 ай бұрын
So, I don't know if you are aware or not, but David Crocket was a real person. He died at the Battle of the Alamo and is considered an American hero. While there were legends made up about him killing a bear when he was a toddler, he was a real person. He was originally from Tennesse and was a frontiersman, and a politician. A couple of his belongings along with his hat and rifle are currently on display in the Alamo.
@agentorange818 ай бұрын
Ok that one sunny refrence made me a fan , 😂
@aryah668 ай бұрын
I would love to see you do a video on Paul Bunyan!
@bigoa3998 ай бұрын
I was Johnny Appleseed in CYT Milwaukee's Great American Tall Tales production
@doll93408 ай бұрын
17:36 I can't break away from The Human Centipede series lol
@penguin-schluppstudio8 ай бұрын
I'm a resident of Ontario, Canada. It's pronounced On-Terry-Oh. Dw, you were close. ❤
@DPWFG8 ай бұрын
I was just about to comment
@haileydurovick38468 ай бұрын
I was scrolling so hard to find if someone corrected him. I’m from Alberta. But damn that hurt hearing Ontario pronounced like that. I actually wasn’t even sure if he was saying Ontario and it was something completely different 💀
@penguin-schluppstudio8 ай бұрын
@@haileydurovick3846 I was also thrown off at first, but once Canada was mentioned, I knew what he meant.
@DPWFG8 ай бұрын
@@haileydurovick3846 yeah, I had to look at a map to see if he was randomly talking about a specific city in Ohio.
@lalacoe86788 ай бұрын
You got a giggle out of me with the Jon Solo died of hemorrhoids.
@IAmNotDiluc8 ай бұрын
Im not gonna lie i thought Johnny appleseed was a fever dream that i just made up in my head when i was like 7 because i heard it once and never again until this day.
@jostoney65015 ай бұрын
Thanks so much for the Johnny Appleseed video! I learned about him six decades ago and primary School don't really talk too much about him other than he was wandering around the countryside putting apple seeds. Now I know the whole story and it's a lot better than they told us in elementary School😊
@Fruitflyonyourwall8 ай бұрын
Only British people call it the American War of Independence. It was the Revolutionary War, that’s how it’s taught throughout the USA
@blackknowledgewisdomempowement4 ай бұрын
I first learned about Johnny Appleseed when I was 6. Ain’t NOBODY told use about him making booze…Nobody!😅😅😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@ms.donaldson25334 сағат бұрын
My Grandson's great (way back) grandfather went to Ohio in 1800. Johnny Appleseed's nursery failed because his tree sprouts got eaten by animals. At least that is what the book says on Johnny
@pipermeh33508 ай бұрын
Wow. Totally forgot about Johnny Appleseed. I learned about him in elementary school. I remember being mad at him because I have always hated apples so much. I did love coloring all the activity pages about him tho.
@yolman258 ай бұрын
Nice to see you back with your regular content. It's rare when mythology and reality collide like this
@monikaalee90838 ай бұрын
I live in the Leominster area and the town is ALL about Jonny Appleseed. Stores, plazas, schools are all named after him. lol. ❤ also this is one of my fav channels. Never stop posting 😊
@monikaalee90838 ай бұрын
I just fan girl squealed that you hearted my comment. lol. 🤣🤗🙃🥰
@constipatedinsincity44248 ай бұрын
Hey Playboy 👋 I have something that once belonged to him. John Chapman planted Hemp across Kentucky Ohio and Tennessee
@ElicBehexan8 ай бұрын
I heard about him so long ago I really don't remember the first time. I do know I saw the Disney version. I was pretty aware the apples he was growing wouldn't have been fun eating - without a LOT of sugar anyway. Oh, while she may not have nation-wide legends about her, Penelope Stout might be an interesting subject for a study... I mean, she was shipwrecked, scalped and partially disemboweled and lived to a ripe old age, some suggest over 100.
@bunyipdragon94998 ай бұрын
I hadn't heard of her so I googled the name. It'll be hard to do a story on her as there are so many variations of her story. Also many historians seemed to have debunked any factual details in all the stories regarding dates of battles and much more. Even withstanding all that she sounds very interesting 💜
@ElicBehexan8 ай бұрын
@@bunyipdragon9499 I think it would interesting, and going through all the different stories, trying to find the real one. I think the story in "Four Women in a Violent Time" might be the closest. I did read one where her future husband rescued her. And, lots of 'facts' to debunk there.
@bunyipdragon94998 ай бұрын
@@ElicBehexan absolutely it'd make for a good Jon Solo story. Some of the different versions are incredible. Whoever she was and whatever she went through she was certainly inspiring. Thank you for mentioning her 💜
@ElicBehexan8 ай бұрын
@@bunyipdragon9499 What do Rex Stout, Johnny Depp and I have in common? We are all related to her. My mother was a Stout. I've known about Rex Stout (descended from an older son) for over 40 years. I discovered Johnny Depp on a list of descendants just a few years ago. I tell people that one great-grandparent came in early settlement days and the other 3 great grandparents had immigrated here. My father's father's side of the family came with William Penn. His mother's mother's side of the family came from the Bahamas.
@JennieOkami8 ай бұрын
My first introduction to Johnny Appleseed was the Disney version when the Disney channel would have a movie on Sundays. It's kinda funny that I never heard of him before, considering my dad was born and raised in Ohio
@AntoinettexKitten8 ай бұрын
When the world's overrun with too much land who's it time for? John Chapman
@Wolfbane3828 ай бұрын
9:45 So that's where the writers of that god-awful movie got their idea.
@thehowlinggamer57848 ай бұрын
He's got one of the most beautiful Disney shirts endings of all time.
@mooncat64918 ай бұрын
I’m related to him. I did a project on it when I was a kid.
@eileenchapman62087 ай бұрын
Yes he’s in my family tree. Hi cousin 👋🏻
@moe_chi8 ай бұрын
John henry was and is my absolute favorite
@LuckyStone8887 ай бұрын
I am from Masachusett so Jonny Appleseed is jpart of our education.
@OmooOmoo8 ай бұрын
I am a cider Maker by trade and talk about John Chapman in the tasting room. People still make cider today on the East Coast of America from the apples he planted
@shewolf871Ай бұрын
They say an apple day keeps the doctor away. I say an apple day will keep anyone away if you throw it hard enough.
@grapeshot8 ай бұрын
Supposedly he planted an orchard down by Old Man's Cave in the Hocking Hills State Park🍏🍏🍏
@tell-me-a-story-8 ай бұрын
Sounds like a really good guy. Not so much of a messed up past if you ask me.
@ShroomedMisterCraft8 ай бұрын
Gebbers owns most of Johnny's land now. Gebbers is a mean rich old man here in okanogan county Edit: you didn't mention that in Washington state all the apple orchards he planted became his land by state law and so he was one of the richest land owners with the most land in all of the state. When he died that land got bought and began to be sold and passed on. Because of all this johnny Appleseed is really well known in Washington State.
@SangoProductions2138 ай бұрын
Why does it have to be a "sanitized tale that masks the tragedies of westward expansion"... and not just a tale about Johnny? Not everything needs to fit into some grand narrative.
@tempestnova67152 ай бұрын
You know I find it really annoying that you and other people keep on saying "Westward expansion bad!!! Because Colonialism!!!". You do know that many people traded with the Native Americans (I'm shortening it to Indians for the rest of this comment) not just for goods but for land too right? Also just like how there were bad people among the settlers there were also bad people among the Indians. There were tribes that preyed upon other Indian tribes as well as preying on peaceful settlers. Dumbing it down to "WHITE MAN BAD!!!" is just being extremely disingenuous.
@jorynickila77608 ай бұрын
I'm not going to lie..... Applejack and apple Brandy are absolutely scrumptious! But I got to warn you. The Hangover is brutal!!!😳
@anthonyminimum4 ай бұрын
Why do you have ol’ “Crusin’ down the street in my Six-Fo” Eazy-E skeleton in the background ?
@capnthrash22408 ай бұрын
I love your videos, Jon, but I winced just a bit when you mispronounced "Leominster".
@airjordon77348 ай бұрын
Love you and your videos Jon always got me watching since 2018 😂
@EBThisThat8 ай бұрын
Being a native Hoosier, the name John Chapman is *very* familiar. He's one of my favorite folklore legends. John Henry is another, close to Paul Bunyan and Babe and Pecos Bill (I wrote on Pecos). My roommate's mom actually knew John Henry, no lie.
@TWSTDSHDW7 ай бұрын
Judging by the graphics, I'm guessing The Oregon Trail is an older game?
@KiraBKADestroyerOfWorlds8 ай бұрын
Apple seeds are not poisonous. People may think that, bc there are naturally occurring traces of arsenic in them, but i eat an apple every single night, seeds and all; if they were poisonous I'd have been dead a long time ago.
@jesussaucedo8133Ай бұрын
A simple Google search says yes they are, but only if crushed and eaten in large amounts. So yes, youre half right.
@DustyB16 күн бұрын
You do not eat an apple with full seeds every night
@boxier7gaming8 ай бұрын
Hey Jon Solo can you cover The Girl With The Green Ribbon and its origins?
@Homeostasis.Restored4 ай бұрын
I am guessing Johnny Appleseed read this passage: "A single seed brings forth a tree, shrub, or plant that takes up its own space. From each tree, shrub, or plant, there come seeds, in some cases thousands of them. Assuming these to be planted and to have sprouted, they take up their spaces; and if from each of their seeds new generations arise again and again, after a few years the whole world is full. ... Figure on a thousand seeds coming from one, and then multiply a thousand by a thousand ten or twenty or a hundred times, and you will see. There is a similar image of eternity in these processes. Seeds reproduce year after year, and the reproductions never cease. They have not paused from the creation of the world to the present, and they will not stop forever. These two facts are obvious indications and eloquent signs that everything in the universe was created by an infinite and eternal God." ~ Emanuel Swedenborg's: Divine Love & Wisdom 4:318 (Dole Translation)
@casli988 ай бұрын
The first time I heard the name Johnny Appleseed was in the animated show Johnny Test. I forget the name of the episode, but in it, the titular Johnny Test learns about the story of Appleseed, which inspires him to become "Johnny Applesauce" when the lunch lady refuses to serve applesauce to the kids.
@alianna01308 ай бұрын
This isn't where I first heard about him but my first thought was his planting the trees for apple cider might be the inspiration for Johnny Applesauce giving all the kids applesauce. XD
@KiraBKADestroyerOfWorlds8 ай бұрын
None of that sounds like that story is being depicted accurately.
@littlepixy28 ай бұрын
I'm from Fort Wayne, Indiana where they have an annual Johnny Applesead festival...near his burial site... Which confused me as a child being told he's a mythical character lol
@kenjr.ostrum73608 ай бұрын
Disney was where I first heard of Johnny Appleseed. But this episode is so awesome too. Thank you good sir.
@olgagachaphoenix91308 ай бұрын
Oh cool!!!
@baskawilki19758 ай бұрын
I know I must have read a book, or watched a video, or something when I was little. But the main thing I remember about Johnny Appleseed from when I was a kid is that my brother dressed up as such for several years for Halloween
@jesussaucedo8133Ай бұрын
Ooof. This aged poorly for that Mr. Beast reference. 😂
@KristopherRiddle8 ай бұрын
Thats my 7th great uncle
@kirtisawant92886 ай бұрын
So basically a missionary planting some apple seeds along the way.
@zombiepiecesgaming50188 ай бұрын
Yeah, I watched you die in every conceivable way. Except for you, Francine, you just kept dying from dysentery. Couldn't stop drinking that mud water, could you? -Roger Smith 👽
@eyescream87438 ай бұрын
The modern day Swedenborgianism is called The New Church, they are located in Bryn Athyn, PA. I know a lot of people there.
@SteveFuller-w3n8 ай бұрын
I'm from the glenview il branch, but have many relatives in brynathen many of them are 1st and 2nd cousins of mine. Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal's father was part of the new church in PA and went to school with my aunts and uncle
@Kit_Kal_20168 ай бұрын
Tbf all he did was plant the trees and move on, not really his fault that people decided to use the apples to get drunk lol. Judging by the way he lived he probably liked the bitter apples
@SteveFuller-w3n8 ай бұрын
To be fair
@juliusnovachrono43708 ай бұрын
This is quite a cool video, Jon.
@notmyfirstlanguage8 ай бұрын
Dude, it's even crazier than that... "Leominster" is actually pronounced-I kid you not-lemon-stirr." Johnny Appleseed was born in a town called LEMON(ster)!
@laroyabutler83888 ай бұрын
Your videos are THE BEST 🙌🏾
@davidfitzpatrick65358 ай бұрын
Uh Jon Ontario is pronounced "ON-TEAR-IO" Weird? Yes but remember its Canada where we measure and weigh in imperial we distance in metric and in language we throw in a bit of French just because.
@raynereisinger8268 ай бұрын
As a Midwestern I remember kinda learning abou him in school but the first time I GENUINELY think I learned about him was when I started dating my current husband. He grew up in Fort Wayne and when I'd visit before I moved here his family told me all about him. Here in Fort wayne he has a park that once a year host the Jonny Appleseed festival, complete with pioneer cosplay and pioneer themed vendors/shows. Its always super fun. Also we have the tin-caps here the local minor league baseball team with Johnny apleseed as our mascot. A giant mascot man with large bare feet and a tin cap on his head. His family told me the popular version of his story because it is a large part of the Fort Wayne community.
@craftynerdybookish8 ай бұрын
First introduced to Johnny Appleseed in Kindergarten when we went on the field trip to the apple farm. This was when I found out apple juice makes me nauseous.
@musiclover01ization7 ай бұрын
This was a great video. It's been a while since I watched your stuff and I really enjoyed your dive into the story of Johnny Appleseed.
@almaschotanus8 ай бұрын
I'm from the Netherlands and I was introduced to Johnny Appleseed by you.
@hunternorth88178 ай бұрын
There you have it ladies and gentlemen. John Chapman, the world's first vegan! 😂
@pyjamallamam79798 ай бұрын
Honestly I love your accent so much, the way you said “Ontario” is adorable 😂❤ As a Canadian from Ontario I approve.
@glitchtyr73418 ай бұрын
Funnily enough the first time I ever heard of Johnny Appleseed was from a Rap battle between him and Paul Bunyan by Freshy Kanal last year I believe (I actually highly recommend it, it's really good) I had never heard of him before then. I'm glad I was able to have the real story explained to me first by you!
@Porkypigyt8 ай бұрын
oh i saw that freshy kanel is great
@ceanasteinbrecher88488 ай бұрын
It’s so funny how you pronounced Leominster (Lemon-Stir) and Concord (Con-curd)
@peterschadenberg90458 ай бұрын
I first heard of Johnny Appleseed when I as a little kid saw an episode of Barney, they were namedropping fairy tales and Johnny Appleseed was one of them. The little kid version of me was thinking: Who the F is this Johnny Appleseed?
@Evilnor78 ай бұрын
I've heard the man had a particularly problematic relationship with a girl he adopted. He attempted to groom her into the perfect wife, but when she ran off, he swore off women until the afterlife. Not sure how well constant traveling would've worked for raising a rebellious child, but who knows. Maybe it's apocryphal.
@lashonnakennybrew48478 ай бұрын
Jon solo I truly love all of your amazing folklore messed up origin videos on all kinds of video game characters folklore and I wonder if you ever might do some stuff about anime stuff explain one day you doing some anime stuff would be awesome too on the channel and Greek mythology and Norse mythology videos😊❤❤❤ we love you so much ❤
@BakedAlaskanBear8 ай бұрын
I’m from Indiana and he was a huge deal when I was in elementary school. I use to go to school in a small town about 45 mins away from Fort Wayne.