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To: Borges

My grandfather used to tell me stories about his father and Johnny and their adventures the hard cider they made.

I was pretty young and thought that jonny appleseed was a make believe character like paul bunyon.

I remember it was in an high school american history class when the teacher said something about him and I realized that no only was he real, but my great grandfather lived in the same county in Indiana as he did.

I wish I had paid more attention to my grandfathers “tall tales” but he was already dead


6 posted on 09/29/2024 2:22:31 PM PDT by algore
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To: algore

This Guy’s grandfather (U.S. President John Tyler) was born during George Washington’s first term as president.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Ruffin_Tyler

You can go ask him—he’s still kickin’!

Do you know what year your Grandfather was born?


9 posted on 09/29/2024 4:14:24 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: algore

“This guy’s...”

Darned autocorrect.

Did not intend to be self-referential!


14 posted on 09/29/2024 4:47:38 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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