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William Kerrigan

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William Kerrigan spent his earliest years in the midwest, where he tasted bitter disappointment when he lost the role of "Johnny Appleseed" in the first grade pageant to a boy named Hal. After spending decades in the wilderness of the American West and South, he returned to Ohio to take a position as a professor of History at a small liberal arts college. That relocation renewed his interest in the legendary apple tree planter, and his book, Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012), is the culmination of fifteen years of research in libraries and local historical societies from Massachusetts to Indiana. At times he followed Chapman's path across the landscape by foot, bike, and kayak.

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The Origins of the American Vegetarian Movement

One of the many issues I explored in Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard was the question of John Chapman’s alleged vegetarianism. While I discovered some evidence that Chapman was not a vegetarian in his earlier years, he probably adopted a vegetarian diet later in life. In my efforts to contextualize Chapman’s alleged abstention from […]

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American Enlightenments: Pursuing Happiness in the Age of Reason (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History)

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“It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Wild Fruits: Thoreau's Rediscovered Last Manuscript

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“An average horse can produce only about half a horsepower for any extended period.”
― David E. Nye, Consuming Power: A Social History of American Energies

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however, the farmers' problems became the bankers' problems, and the insurance companies', and the USDAs. Suddenly, everyone was interested in helping the farmer become modern.21”
― Deborah Fitzgerald, Every Farm a Factory: The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture

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