Tomorrow is the first day of September. How did this happen!? Time is certainly a strange thing in the world we inhabit right now. I feel like spring lasted for two years, but summer has gone by in a blink. Even so, I’m ready to embrace September—and embracing September means embracing all things apple related!…
Do you know the apple man? He was born John Chapman on September 26, 1774, in Leominster, Massachusetts. Of course most of us know Chapman as Johnny Appleseed, the American pioneer who planted large numbers of apple trees along the early frontier. Did Chapman really wear a tin pot as a hat, a coffee sack…
Why do we associate apples and teachers? I did a little snooping, and the most logical explanation I have found is that, before public-funded education, families often had a barter system with teachers so their children could go to school. Thus, it wouldn’t be uncommon for a teacher to get a crate of apples for…