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Oz travels? Take your passport
A small Oz Passport appeared on the market some years back. It’s intended as a little pocket notebook, selling for $3-$6 depending on where you find it. But a pocket notebook isn’t quite e...
Beyond Oz: the Club’s 2019 calendar
The Oz Club’s calendar for 2019 celebrates our publication of Bibliographia Baumiana in two ways. Images and textual points from Baum non-Oz books used in the calendar come from the new collect...
Ruth Plumly Thompson honored with historic marker
Ruth Plumly Thompson: New State Historical Marker in West Philadelphia Commemorates Children’s Author of 19 Oz Books The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission recently approved an offici...
Oz en pointe in Kansas City
Kansas City Ballet premiered a lavish new ballet of The Wizard of Oz. Since KC is my hometown, I was there for opening night, but also for a number of local events designed to promote the production. ...
Performances, Presentations and an Oz Auction; It Can Only Be an Oz convention
OzCon International (Aug. 10-12) offered a wonderful program packed with enough great Oz activity to appeal to all kinds of Oz fans. The year marked the centennial of The Tin Woodman of Oz, so our fri...
MGM 50th Anniversary Merchandise on Display
The new Oz Club exhibit at the Oz Museum in Wamego, Kansas, offers a sampling of merchandise from the 50th anniversary of the 1939 MGM film. 1989 was a big year for the Oz collectibles market. Not onl...
…And then Ozma got married…
The Oz Club’s board of directors’ meeting and OzCon International timing gave me a perfect excuse to stay in the Los Angeles area and attend the unforgettable wedding of Emma Ridley. In 1...
IWOC Board Meeting 2018
The Oz Club’s board of directors met Thursday, August 9, 2018. These annual all-day meetings give us time to hear from each officer, editor, appointee, and committee chairman. It’s our chance to lear...
Bill Thompson receives 2018 LFB Award
Bill Thompson was presented with the 2018 L. Frank Baum Memorial Award Aug. 11 in Pomona, California. The auction Bill led had just ended before dinner, so his expertise and energy was top-of-mind for...