• By Sue deGuzman
• Posted Friday, August 18, 2023

North Carolina’s own Johnny Appleseed to speak at Lewisville Branch/Historical Society program

In 1999, Tom Brown met a man selling heritage apples at the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds Farmers' Market and learned that there once was a 'lost' apple variety called the Harper’s Seedling. His search for this apple took him to neighboring counties and eventually finding 300 apple varieties, a total that would grow to more than 1,000 in North Carolina and surrounding states.

Learn more about how Brown continues to search for lost apple varieties to preserve our agricultural heritage for others to enjoy in the future at Lewisville Historical Society Presents: Heritage Apples with Tom Brown on Monday, Sept. 11 at 6 p.m. at the Mary Alice Warren Community Center in Lewisville.

Lewisville Historical Society Presents is a bimonthly program of the Lewisville Historical Society and the Lewisville Branch Library. Participants do not need to be members of the society to attend. For more information, contact the Lewisville Branch at 336-703-2940 or the Lewisville Historical Society at 336-766-5842.

Heritage Apples with Tom Brown
Monday, Sept. 11 at 6 p.m.
Mary Alice Warren Community Center
7632 Warren Park Drive Lewisville, NC 27023
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All Forsyth County Public Library programs are free and open to the public. Photo Caption: Tom Brown at Tom's Heritage Apple Orchard. Photo by Merrikay Brown, president of the Lewisville Historical Society.