EARLY FEMINIST HAD INFLUENCE IN "OZ'; MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE HAD AN IMPACT ON THE VIEWS, WRITINGS OF HER SON-IN-LAW, L. FRANK BAUM.(Neighbors Madison)

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From: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
Date: 20030605
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Byline: Sally Roesch Wagner

If you are in Chittenango for the OzFest, you need to travel only 10 minutes to Fayetteville to visit a unique Oz site - the only house open to the public in the entire country where L. Frank Baum spent time.

The road from Frank's birthplace in Chittenango to his marriage to a young Cornell student from Fayetteville took him through a childhood in Mattydale. Frank was traveling as an actor when his life was transformed. He fell in love.

Maud Gage, the youngest daughter of the suffrage leader Matilda Joslyn Gage, was attending Cornell. ...

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