i was one of the 5-year-old who learned about johnny appleseed from the disney treatment, and this is the appleseed i still knew after being 5 years old when a friend suggested i take on this project. as nearly two dozen years between now and then might suggest, i didn't exactly jump at the idea. other work had priority, and why take on a biography of such a known quality. i nibbled off and on, and as i did, the story was richer and richer until i guess i felt compelled to jump into it. it was first of all the obvious discrepancy between john chapman and johnny appleseed, the man and the myth. robert price whose papers will soon be hope of the archives of this museum and learning center, price tackled the subject matterfully half a century earlier, but i've been able to add to that story. what's more than need is far greater now, and that's the legacy of the disney version which is basically all but obliterated him from the memory. i was able to do polling for this book. only 58% of adult americans thought johnny appleseed ever existed, had any historical reference, and only one in fo

the beginning was when to refer to title character as john chapman and which refer to them as johnny appleseed. in general, chapman refers to the historical figure i'll appleseed to the myth that he became. the two were so intertwined that the distinction gets misty and sometimes a little worse than misty i'm afraid. that is generally what i'm trained to hold to hear in these comments. back to where we are -- urbana the city and the danube university, and so if you know actually are bursting with chapman appleseed's connections. urbina was very chapman met with attorney john chance to discuss possible legal proceedings concerning one of his orchards. one of the very where moments when the historical figure stepped out from behind the curtain and lets us have a good look at him. for the record, chapman paced the room only to tincher doneness. john janus for his part went to this college grows in 1850 is the only sweden affiliated college best of the alleghenies, a dream -- both lament of a dream long held by john chapman. the first president of the college, my williams, was well acquainted with

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

means looking at the lifeless land speculator and evangelist john chapman who became known as johnny appleseed. for more information, visit the website at howard means.com. >> up next on booktv, subway discovers what took to the role. evangelicalism provided by a trip of good versus evil in north and south america as a politically mediated resolution between the two sides became unrealistic due to the inclusion of religion in political affairs. this lasts about an hour. >> 150 years ago today, the firing on fort sumter in charleston harbor launched for bloody terrible year as we know as american civil war. we realize the impact of that conflict has been felt in almost every area of our culture cents. it has shaped our nation in ways good and bad end remains a focal point for controversy, discussion and dispute for millions of people. if you have any doubt about that, consider that just yesterday the placement of an historical plaque denoting the union burning of the lancet during the civil war was protested by the naacp because of its location in the middle of atlanta civil rights district was

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