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Johnny Appleseed Festival: Bag Pipes 2:21 minute video October 2, 2009 by Carl Jylland-Halverson on YouTube.

Location of the Johnny Appleseed Park in Fort Wayne, Indiana is shown on this Google Map

Since 1974, the Johnny Appleseed Festival is held the 3rd weekend in September in the 31 acre Johnny Appleseed Park, named in 1973 according to the City of Fort Wayne Parks & Recreation, where the two day event draws over 300,000 visitors from all over the Midwest. See the Johnny Appleseed Festival History. NOTICE: some sources say the festival started in 1974, others 1975. Ladonna Huntley James had no idea the seeds she was planting when she launched the first Johnny Appleseed Festival in 1975. Now, 47 years later, the 90-year-old marvels at how it has grown into one of Fort Wayne’s largest festivals, drawing hundreds of thousands of people every September. The festival was actually an idea conceived by Huntley James and the late Phyllis Florea, who was co-founder and president of The Settlers, as part of the 1976 Fort Wayne Bicentennial Commission. Copied from the first few lines of 90-year-old co-founder of Johnny Appleseed Festival proud of city's growth by Terri Richardson posted September 12, 2022 in The Journal Gazette newspaper which is now online behind a paywall. The same article was published as 90-Year-Old Co-Founder Of Johnny Appleseed Festival Proud Of City by NewsReporter September 13, 2022 on digitalIndianaNews.com.

September 15, 2023 post by the Johnny Appleseed Festival, Inc. on Facebook:

Coming to Johnny Appleseed Festival? Download our new app and get access to full schedules, maps, fun and more! Now available in the iOS and Google Play App Stores or at https://grandstandsites.com/gs?c=Johnny_Appleseed_Festival

This is our NEW Johnny Appleseed Festival, Inc. OFFICIAL Facebook page. We lost access to our OLD page back in March...

Posted by Johnny Appleseed Festival, Inc. on Monday, August 8, 2022

Monday, August 8, 2022 post by the Johnny Appleseed Festival, Inc. on Facebook: [ https://www.facebook.com/johnnyappleseedfest1 - notice the 1 at the end of the URL ]

This is our NEW Johnny Appleseed Festival, Inc. OFFICIAL Facebook page. We lost access to our OLD page back in March due to a hack and have exhausted our resources to recover it. Please spread the word - share this page as fast as possible so we can recover as many of our 17,000+ fans as possible!

Johnny Appleseed Board of Directors

March 22, 2017 post by the OLD Johnny Appleseed Festival no longer active Facebook page:

This past Monday, 3/20, Jeopardy on CBS mentioned the Johnny Appleseed Festival, however, Jeopardy got the Answer wrong. They're statement was "Pies are in abundance at this Huntertown Indiana Festival that could also be called the John Chapman Festival".

We'll Alex it's Fort Wayne Indiana not Huntertown. The Huntertown address we use is for our PO box, for mailing purposes only. For all of our festival fans, we promise we are still safely located in Fort Wayne and we don't plan to go anywhere anytime Soon.

Alex Trebek, we'll take "The Best 1800 period festival in the United States" for $1,000 please.

Really cool to be mentioned on a national game show!!!

POST COMMENT: We were glad that the contestant still go the answer correct for $800. Whew! 

 

Show #7491 - Monday, March 20, 2017 and Responses for Show #7491 - Monday, March 20, 2017 on J! Archive.com.

See local Jeopardy contestants.

JOHNNY APPLESEED FESTIVAL with KIDS! 2:51 minute video posted Sep 11, 2022 by VOs Travel with KIDS on YouTube
Where to go and what to do at the Johnny Appleseed Festival in Fort Wayne, Indiana. It’s the best fall festival in the Midwest! A festival dedicated to the life and times of Johnny Appleseed. See what vendors offer, watch Civil War reenactors, find the best food and let your kiddos go wild on games! Music by Soltre - www.soltreband.com Homestead chicken and dumplings, Little John’s Root Beer, antiques, vintage, farmers market, homemade home goods, kids games, live bluegrass music, live marching drum line, Johnny Appleseed grave site, where is Johnny Appleseed buried

The Best Fall Festival in the Midwest - The Johnny Appleseed Festival! 5 minute video posted Sep 21, 2018 by Manly Moments on YouTube
Every September the Johnny Appleseed Festival marks the unofficial celebration of Autumn in Fort Wayne, IN. It is, debatably, the best Fall festivals in the Midwest as the sites and sounds of the 1800's are relived while celebrating the life of John Chapman. This video will give you a small glimpse of this amazing event.

September 16, 2023 post by WANE 15 on Facebook:

Every year, the Johnny Appleseed Festival takes attendees back in time to the 1800s. In this video, WANE 15 rewinds to 1987, the 13th year of the festival!

September 26, 2023 post by WANE 15 on Facebook:

JOHNNY APPLESEED DAY | Although Fort Wayne's annual Johnny Appleseed Festival has passed, today honors the man behind the celebration. Check out this archive footage of festival goers describing what they know about John Chapman!

[Anyone know who is the guy at the 0:27 mark who says his great-grandfather built the "basic coffin" for Johnny Appleseed?]

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