AGRICULTURE REPORT - It's Apple Season in America By Mario Ritter Broadcast: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Apples are the second most valua

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Broadcast: August 3, 2003 (THEME) VOICE ONE: I'm Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program People in America. Today we tell about a man known as Johnny Applese

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VOICE ONE: Im Faith Lapidus. VOICE TWO: And Im Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program People in America. Today we tell about a man known as Johnny Appleseed. Many people considered him a hero. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Johnny Appleseed Johnny App

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PEOPLE IN AMERICA - How Johnny Appleseed Grew Into a Folk Hero FAITH LAPIDUS: Im Faith Lapidus. STEVE EMBER: And Im Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today we tell about a man known as Johnny Appleseed. Many people c

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'As American as Apple Pie' Welcome back to Words and Their Stories from VOA Learning English! Each week we explore the roots and meaning of common American expressions. Today lets talk about apples. The saying as American as apple pie describes thing

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Twenty-six years after Johnny died, an author wrote an article about him in Harpers New Monthly Magazine. It was called Johnny AppleseedA Pioneer Hero. Readers all over America enjoyed reading about Johnnys unusual life. Imagine a barefoot man roamin

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After the war ended, Johnny began buying more land. Some of his orchards were less than an acre in size. Others covered hundreds of acres. He took care of his orchards all by himself for most of his life. Sometimes he needed help for certain jobs. Wh

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In the early 1800s, shiploads of new immigrants arrived on Americas East Coast every week. They came from Germany, Ireland, Scandinavia, and other areas. Thousands of them moved west, taking over Native American hunting grounds. The pioneers chopped

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A good apple is a nickname for someone who is a good person. Johnny Appleseed was a good apple. Sometimes he helped settlers build cabins or chop trees. He knew they were struggling to make new lives for themselves in the west. If people couldnt pay,

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The first newspaper in the Northwest Territory was published in 1793 in Cincinnati, Ohio. But frontier settlers rarely got a chance to see a newspaper or any book besides the Bible. Most cabins were built far apart, and settlers didnt get many visito

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Johnnys orchards kept him busy year-round. Every fall, Pennsylvania farmers took their newly picked apples to the cider mills. So thats when seeds were plentiful. Johnny usually collected a couple of bushels of them from the mills. During the winter,

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When he was twenty-three years old, Johnny made his move. No one knows why he finally decided to head west. Maybe hed heard that the Holland Land Company was selling land in Pennsylvania. Maybe hed heard promises that treaties with the Native America

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The main road through Longmeadow was busy. People traveling to and from Connecticut and New York brought news. In 1783 Johnny learned that the Revolutionary War was officially over. The colonies had finally gotten what they wantedindependence. Now al

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It was September 26, 1774, in Leominster, Massachusetts. Colonists were just beginning to pick newly ripened apples from their trees. Nathaniel and Elizabeth Chapman were celebrating. Their first son was born that day. They named him John, but someda

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Johnny Appleseeds real name was John Chapman. He earned his nickname by planting thousands of apple seeds in Americas Midwest. For this, he became a legend during his own lifetime. Johnny Appleseed was best known as an apple lover, but he was many ot

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In 1800, the census counted 5.3 million people in the United States. Pennsylvania was getting too crowded to suit Johnny. When he was twenty-six, he led a horse across the Pennsylvania border into Ohio. It was carrying a load of apple seeds. He plant

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