Johnny Appleseed trivia

[frogmarch]

You know how in the Disney movie Johnny Appleseed Johnny wore a cooking pot on his head? Apparently John Chapman, the real Johnny Appleseed, did too!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Appleseed?fbclid=IwAR0UxJFwr6RATo8S03vK6-2mKRdGLkuwZPsphCwV35vejEmnsac8DZcFa08

snip:

One cool autumnal night, while lying by his camp-fire in the woods, he observed that the mosquitoes flew in the blaze and were burned. Johnny, who wore on his head a tin utensil which answered both as a cap and a mush pot, filled it with water and quenched the fire, and afterwards remarked, "God forbid that I should build a fire for my comfort, that should be the means of destroying any of His creatures."

I think Dennis Day was wonderful as the narrator in the movie and as the voices of Johnny Appleseed + The Old Settler + Johnny's Angel. It makes me happy that Johnny in the movie was drawn to resemble Dennis Day, who I remember from the Jack Benny TV show and always liked.

Here's the song "There's a Lot of Work to Do" from the movie: