welcome. my name is joe b. thacker, but the johnny appleseed society in urbana, ohio. we are located for this program in the johnny appleseed education center and museum and historic daily hall here at the university. we are here to listen to howard means talk about his brand-new book. this is his 10th book in its written a biography of johnny appleseed or john chapman and is here to tell us all about the book. the book is johnny appleseed, the man, that s an american story. so i welcome howard. [applause] thank you, thank you very much. my book was published only five days ago and since then i ve done taping sessions with some of the nationally syndicated radio shows. this is the first live event for johnny appleseed and it couldn t have been in a more appropriate. not only because we are in the newly renovated johnny appleseed center, joe dusek was one of the first people i contacted after simon and schuster agree to publish the book here before it written a word o