September 26, 1774 or 1776 or 1783 (Who knows, I wasn’t there.) –
Frontier missionary and pioneer nurseryman John “Johnny Appleseed” Chapman was born in Leominster, Massachusetts on this date. After collecting apple seeds from cider presses in western Pennsylvania he embarked on a long trek westward, walking barefoot, planting a series of apple nurseries from Pennsylvania to central Ohio and beyond.
It was more than two centuries, however, before The Beverly Hillbillies first aired on CBS-TV (on this day in 1962).
The lengthy lapse between these watershed events has never been explained.
The Haus of Dcaligari 