CANASTOTA MAYOR: "WE GOT YOUR YELLOW BRICK ROAD'.(News)

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From: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
Date: 20050212
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Byline: Robert A. Baker Staff writer

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CORRECTION: FEBRUARY 19, 2005

A Feb. 12 story about the yellow brick road in Canastota misspelled the name of L. Frank Baum historian Kathleen Sorbello DiScenna.

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Yes, by golly, there was a yellow brick road in Madison County.

It's not, as you might have guessed, in Chittenango, birthplace of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" author L. Frank Baum. It's six miles away in Canastota, where a crew repairing a water main in front of the municipal building on Feb. 4 jackhammered their way a few feet into Peterboro ...

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