means recounts the life of john chap man, also know as johnny appleseed. he died in 1845 and was a great land speculator paving the way for future settlers. the 45 minute event took place at the johnny appleseed education center and museum in ohio. >> welcome. i'm the directer of the johnny appleseed society here at urbana university here in ohio. we are located in the johnny appleseed education center and museum in historic bailey hall here at the university. we are hear to listen to howard means talk about his new book, his 10th book, and he wrote an biography about johnny appleseed or john chapman. the name of the book is "johnny appleseed, the man, the myth, and the american story. " i welcome howard. [applause] >> thank you, thank you very much. my book was published five daying ago, and i've done tapings with some of the syndicated radio shows, but this is the first live event for johnny appleseed, and, of course, it can't happen in a more appropriate place not only because we're in the museum. joe was one the first people i contracted after simon ag

chapman, appleseed, whatever you call them. contact him through every tree, every leaf, every rock, every of these great and small, every atom of creation. how could he not tauro enjoy? johnny's famous loneliness may not have been so lonely after all as william dean howells once wrote quote, it is believed was true and we are in this world surrounded by spirits, evil or good some of which are evil or good behavior with our company, then harmless, loving half crazy man walked with the angels of god. i can also see henry david thoreau and chapman commit two children new england living deliberately in nature. indeed at the very moment william wirth's cabin in fort worth was digging the foundation for his famous cabinet. for all of his intellectual independence, he never cut the lifeline. boldin was within easy walking distance of the world you do with a. even if he was rhapsodizing on life in the west, he was still carrying laundry home to his mother. not so chapman. from her early 20s on, yet no tether last. in an article for the

that is johnny appleseed to me. and that is what i have to say and i would be glad to take any questions anyone has. i think there will be some. i am going to throughout the first question. i've been somewhat criticized in printing on this medium and i perhaps rightly so for suggesting you is almost certainly insane. does that strike those of you who know the story as almost as well as i do as completely over-the-top? does anyone want to venture an opinion on that? yes? >> i think that the impression that we have of john is probably a lot like a lot of people in our lives that aren't of the norm and at the same time operate in society. not certifiably insane but maybe instead just someone who operates differently. may be an artistic ers and. >> that might've been the wrong word. that might've been the real problem. is a word that i threw around to catch that perhaps. now it is in print, 12,500 copies. what am i going to do? [laughter] questions? we have a mic over here. who would like to start out with a question? >

by the 1970s so-called johnny appleseed traipsing around the countryside. the expectation of a new utopia. the phrase johnny appleseed the pot gets use something like 10,000 hits on google. so this constant reinvention continues into our own time and our distinctly modern interest in scaling back, going local and conserving this wonderful creation we have been handed. two centuries before there was a simplicity movement john chapman created a life style that was simplicity itself. it was the consumption that would drive the national economy back to a barter system. snuff, the occasional tool, the suite and board books, that was all the earth's resources he seems to have needed. johnny didn't merely live in on the land. he barely touched it even though he walked it constantly. it is a gift to be simple and free. when we find ourselves in the place just write it will be in the valley of love and the like. could there be a better summary of john chapman's life? what a fragile creations deserve is. chapman and appleseed were there too coddling major as if she w

by the mid-1970s, the so-called johnny appleseed or black or otherwise trading around the countrysidewith the expectation of the new utopia of the stone. the phrase johnny appleseed of pot will still get you something like 10,000 hits on google amazingly enough. [laughter] and so the constant reinvention continuance in your own time and the distinct modern interest in scaling back going local and preserving a wonderful creation we have been handed. two centuries before there was some positive movement, john chapman created a lifestyle of simplicity itself. a level of consumption or drive the national economy back to the system of wide practice. snuff, the occasional toole, the rear wheel or night under a rented room, the board books, the was ought earth's resources he seemed to have needed and the books he recycled fairly well. johnny didn't merely live likely in the land he barely touched it even though he walked constantly it is the gift to be simple, the gift to be free, to is the gift to come down where you ought to be it goes. and when we find ourselves in the place just write it

demeans every appleseed contains the genetic serial for every variety of apple never made. sophie planted appleseed -- if you have a delicious ale apple and save the season pentagram, your chances of getting a kill apple out of the trees are about one and 100,000. apple trees when you plant it had to do great battle with this canopy is a vigorous 70 feet sometimes and take 30 years to produce crop. he was different to your bootlegger. apples were privately printed use of making hard cider vinegar. he wasn't selling apples. it was the dollar store business. pile them high and watch them play. sold them for pennies. not a bad model. any other questions click let me say just one little pitch at the end. i want to close by saying how lucky i've been at this book, let a genie wasn't for my publisher simon & schuster simon & schuster, editor alice mayhew were bound and determined to be not only good, the beautiful boat. i think i think the cover is a beautiful cover. they did everything just right. the maps add enormously to the story and best of all for my point of view, they're

survival, the blow does need someone to show it how to live better and as he always was in life, johnny appleseed is out there even now as the razor thin line between president, future command and myth and the imagined ready to lead the way. .. >> he discusses to this tur blen period. from angela stent. >> i'm angela stent. i'm director for the center of eurasian, and east european studies at georgetown university and it is my great pleasure to introduce you to frederick kempe, author of "berlin, 1961:kennedy, khrushchev and the most dangerous place on earth." he had a distinguished career as a journalist. his last position being the editor of the european "wall street journal." he's the author of a number of books, among them sibeerion odyssey and a book about his own family and germany and his own thoughts about a unified germany. so i think this will be a very interesting discussion. fred, most people when they look back at the 45-year cold war think about the cuban missile crisis when it did come to the brink of a war with the soviet union was the most dangerous moment in that cold war. you t

my junior high was johnny appleseed junior high school in north central ohio where johnny appleseed 200 years ago or so used to go around -- it was a peculiar life he lived. he went around in a country that was totally forested planting apple trees. he became a legend. to each his own. i remember at junior high school, high school, i remember so many teachers that would come to our plays. i played basketball in eighth grade and played baseball and basketball in high school. i would see teachers, not just the coaches but teachers come to the games, the friday night basketball games or the tuesday afternoon baseball games or the school plays on saturday. part of the community cheering on their students, not showing favorites but caring particularly for those students that were a little shy or a little less talented, that might need a bump up from their teacher and encouragement from their teacher. the same goes for miss jackie geary who taught reading for 45 years in dayton. she was a mate remark of a family of educators. her husband mike is a professor at the university of dayton, one of