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Jordan Zinovich's "John Chapman's Harvest" Airs May 6, 2004

"John Chapman's Harvest"

Jordan Zinovich, Radio BION


Autonomedia editor Jordan Zinovich has written a radio play loosely based on the life of American icon Johnny "Appleseed" Chapman.


"John Chapman's Harvest" is a picaresque scramble through the mind of Chapman's 21st century avatar.  Written as a four-voice radio play — with the Narratrix creating the world, Mercury providing itineraries, and Pomona as nurturing divinity — Chapman moves from the Rocky Mountains to Amsterdam to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, with stops on the barricades at Quebec City and at the lost anarchist utopia of Fools' Paradise.  En route he surveils 18 extraordinary varieties of heritage apple in a search for knowledge and satisfaction.


 
"John Chapman's Harvest" will be broadcast on BION Radio, a community radio micro-casting project in Bushwick, Brooklyn, run by the transmission arts organization Free103point9.


The show will air at 7 pm EDT on May 6, and will be web-cast at www.free103point9.org