Do schools teach about Johnny Appleseed nation wide or is it a dumbass Indiana thing?

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We spent a good portion of first grade learning about Johnny Appleseed I think, and I just figured out that he wasn't a made up legend like Paul Bunyon. But now I'm wondering if this is a dumbass Indiana thing or what.
 
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I've heard of Johnny Appleseed but never really learned anything about him in school. He played his most significant role in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Ontario so that may be why. As someone who lives outside those areas I guess he is like of those regional folk heroes some kids are taught about more then others depending on location.
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I've heard of Johnny Appleseed but never really learned anything about him in school. He played his most significant role in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Ontario so that may be why. As someone who lives outside those areas I guess he is like of those regional folk heroes some kids are taught about more then others depending on location.
 
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I learned about Johnny Appleseed in first grade, too. Not Indiana.

None of the fun stuff, just that he was some dude who planted apple trees.

Better than government school:
 
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BeepBoopBeepBoop said:
He actually existed. Dude actually helped plant a lot of apple orchards and brought the gift of delicious apple cider to many Americans.
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Solid Snek said:
I learned about Johnny Appleseed in first grade, too. Not Indiana.

None of the fun stuff, just that he was some dude who planted apple trees.
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It feels like we spent a lot of time on him based on just hte amount of stupid worksheets and coloring pages I found in a box full of old childhood stuff. Of course, all of it seems to amount to "he was some dude who wore a pan on his head that wandered around throwing appleseeds, and that's why we have apples" which I guess explains why I thought he was just some made up fairytale to explain apples to kids for all these years.

The little bit of research I did just now it looks like he preached the gospel while he planted orchards too? They didn't teach us that in school...
 
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He was huge in my school and it was far away from Indiana. We even had an apple cider day when we pressed apples in honor of him. It was very big deal.
 
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In both Maryland and California I heard about Johnny Appleseed, and I adored him. :biggrin:

I'm very certain he is a nation-wide subject.
 
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I think I learned about him in first grade and then never heard a thing about him after that. I just assume that beyond knowing how to read, anything I learned before they decided I was ready to understand fractions was just time-wasting bullshit.
 
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The little bit of research I did just now it looks like he preached the gospel while he planted orchards too? They didn't teach us that in school...
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Check the video I edited in.

He didn't just preach the gospel. He preached the gospel of an ascetic volcel cult leader named Swedenborg, whom both Victor Hugo and Immanuel Kant threw shade at.
 
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Taught in NY as late as the early 2000s. Yes he was a real person, but his planting of appleseeds wasn't purely philanthropic; at the time, you could claim unowned land for yourself if you planted enough crops on it. So, he was basically an early real estate mogul.
 
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I definitely remember learning about Johnny Appleseed in the mid-atlantic state in which I was raised and even then was wondering why the hell we were learning about him
 
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He preached the gospel of an ascetic volcel cult leader named Swedenborg [...]
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I think Swedenborg lost his virginity to a "mistress", then went volcel later. Not sure about that though.

Also Swedenborg didn't intend to found a religious movement himself (he published anonymously before he was discovered), and he wasn't too fond of asceticism.
 
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Way too much was taught to me than I could use.

t. from the Indianapolis metro area
 
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