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History festival features apples.
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Vindicator (Youngstown, OH)
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September 17, 2007
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Byline: Angie Schmitt
Sep. 17--LISBON -- Folks here have a special way to commemorate the coming of fall, and it's all about apples.
The village celebrated its 40th annual Johnny Appleseed Festival over the weekend, complete with crafts, carnival rides and a gamut of apple-flavored treats.
The event, celebrated the third week of September in this historic town, pays tribute to John Chapman, a Massachusetts native who traveled through Ohio, Pennsylvania and Indiana planting apple trees between 1774 and 1847.
Beaver Creek resident Sonny Reynolds, 54, portrayed Chapman in this year's festival, sporting a burlap sack and a tin pot for a hat, as legend describes. ...