That time I met Nancy Reagan in the White House:
https://laterdaysoftennesseewilliams.blogspot.com/2013/10/chapter-8-gauntlet-and-honors.html
That time I met Jackie Kennedy Onassis and actually ESCORTED HER into Jean Babette Stein and George Plimpton's Party -- when Truman Capote insulted Jackie -- and I felt the shiver go up Jackie's spine:
https://laterdaysoftennesseewilliams.blogspot.com/2013/10/chapter-23-uptown-soiree.html
And REMEMBER, Laura Bush was a LIBRARIAN -- The GOOGLE of Pre-Internet Days!!!
>>> AND LIKE GOOD LIBRARIES, HERE IS ANOTHER AMERICAN TRADITION -- A FOLK TALE BASED IN TRUTH -- WHOSE ANNIVERSARY WE CELEBRATE TODAY:
The Legend of Johnny Appleseed
John Chapman, better known as “Johnny Appleseed,” was born in Massachusetts on September 26, 1774, and September 26th is celebrated as Johnny Appleseed Day (along with March 11th, the day of his death). His father, Nathaniel Chapman was a Minuteman who fought in the Revolutionary War and served with General George Washington. John’s mother, Elizabeth, died shortly after the Declaration of Independence was signed. Nathaniel Chapman remarried after the war and had 10 children.
John and his half brother Nathaniel, Jr. journeyed west around 1792, just about five years after the Constitution was ratified. They lived as vagabonds, living off the land and taking odd jobs. Their father and siblings joined them in Ohio in 1805 where they started a family farm.
The Legend of Johnny Appleseed
Johnny Appleseed’s legend begins when John Chapman left the family farm and signed on as an apprentice for an orchardist named Crawford. After that, fact and fiction become intertwined. There are anecdotal reports of “Johnny Appleseed” appearing here and there over the middle Atlantic states, with key sightings in Pennsylvania. It’s likely that Chapman had combined his love of itinerant travel with his skills as an apple orchardist, and roamed the young United States looking for opportunity, locating landowners interested in planting apple orchards or starting cider mills.
MORE: https://www.farmersalmanac.com/legend-johnny-appleseed-20706?
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