Seeds of Kindness:

             A Tale about Johnny Appleseed

      John Chapman, the real life Johnny Appleseed, was born and in Massachusetts in 1774. He was a simple man with a kind heart with a vision of apple blossoms across the country. By the age of 25 he operated nurseries in New York and Pennsylvania. Soon after he left the Northeast and explored the Northwest Territory. There he planted apple trees and sold them for very little or exchanged them for used clothing.

      Money did not worry Chapman. He worked alone, never married and kept life simple. Walking barefoot, he carried his belongings with him and gathered food along the way, all in an effort to spread apple trees around the country. As the country became increasingly settled he was able to lodge in settlers homes, entertaining his hosts with his stories and listened to him read from the Bible. Accounts very but it is believed that he died around the age of seventy when he was struck by pneumonia.