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Walking the Johnny Appleseed Trail with Isaac Fitzgerald

5/14/2026 • 29 min

Isaac Fitzgerald grew up taking long walks with his father in rural Massachusetts. And on those walks, his father told him stories about legendary figures like Johnny Appleseed. As an adult, Isaac decided to retrace his path, and learn the true story behind this mythical character he’d grown up with. Isaac is the author of American Rambler: Walking the Trail of… Play episode

A Syrian Seed Library, Under Siege
The Paris Sewer Museum
National Ice Core Lab (Classic)
Weekend Road Trip: The Mark Twain Stump
Enchanted Woods (Classic)
Haw Par Villa (Classic)
AO Mailbag: Who Gets to DJ on a Long Road Trip?
The Lunchbox Museum
The Places Behind the Star Wars Franchise
Smith Court (Classic)
The Merchant’s House and the Not-So-Secret Passageway
The Emma Crawford Coffin Race
Rita’s Place
Wonder in Your Backyard: The Aztec Ruins
Garden Week: Cementerio Municipal José María Azael Franco Guerrero
Garden Week: Underwater Sculpture Gardens
Garden Week: A Floating National Park
Garden Week: A Sound Garden
Garden Week: Alnwick Poison Garden
Bone Vinyl (Classic)
The World’s Biggest Social Studies Assignment with Paul Barbato
Bean There, Baked That
When In Rome… Accidentally Break the Rules?
When Kelly McEvers Was In Over Her Head
Thomas Merton's Hermitage (Classic)
A Short, Strange Trip
Wonder in Your Backyard: Crabby Steve’s
Jerry’s Hat Museum (Classic)
AO Mailbag: Best Movie to Watch on an Airplane?
Ganvie Lake Village (Classic)
Tasting the World’s Most Unique Honeys with Marina Marchese
Was It All A Hoax?
Deadly Beard
The Farewell Spit
Exotic Feline Rescue Center (Classic)
Alone on the Alaskan Frontier
Meet the Man Visiting 800 Museums in LA
Alice Austen House
The Barbican
Tell Us: What Rules Have You Broken?
Old City Hall Station (Classic)
The Blue That Upended the Art World
The Hummingbirds of Mexico City
Thomas Edison’s Last Breath
Your Spring Break Travel Stories
The Red Book (Classic)
The Family That Tried To Escape History
AO Mailbag: How Shlubby Is Too Shlubby On an Airplane?
The Amargosa Opera House

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