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A BIT OF OZ IN FAYETTEVILLE; OZ AUTHOR'S MOTHER-IN-LAW WAS ACTIVIST MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE.(SERIES: OZFEST)(Neighbors Madison)

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From: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
Date: 20040603
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Byline: Sally Roesch Wagner

Only 15 minutes from Chittenango, on the drive to Syracuse, you pass what is possibly the most important public Baum site in the United States.

The Matilda Joslyn Gage House, at 210 E. Genesee St. in Fayetteville, is the only home in the country open to the public where L. Frank Baum - author of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and more than a dozen other "Oz" books - spent considerable time.

The homes where he lived - in Chittenango; Syracuse; Aberdeen, S.D.; Chicago; Coronado, Calif.; and Los Angeles - all are destroyed or privately ...

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