Can you tell me anything about the item shown in the enclosed photograph? The photograph is of a hardcover book titled “The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People.” It was ...

In Syracuse, down a stretch of West Onondaga Street, is a shattered house. Missing windows, broken porch steps and peeling paint blanket this house that is almost invisible behind a thick wall of ...

McGroarty’s “Los Angeles from the Mountains to the Sea” in the Pasadena Museum of History’s library is full of interesting biographies of Southern Californians. One of these is Lyman Frank Baum, the ...

Born Lyman Frank Baum (no wonder he went by Frank) near Oneida, N.Y., in 1856, the author of “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” and the books that followed started out infatuated by the theater. He and his ...

The Greater Syracuse Land Bank has agreed to sell the Syracuse home where "The Wizard of Oz" author L. Frank Baum met his wife to the International L. Frank Baum and All Things Oz Historical ...

Born in 1856, Frank Baum (his first name was Lyman, but he preferred to use Frank) led a colourful life, involved in the newspaper business, theatre and writing. Most famous for the Oz series, Baum ...

`I have a little cabinet letter file on my desk in front of me. I was thinking and wondering about a title for my story, and I had settled on `Wizard` as part of it. My gaze was caught by the gilt ...

Lions and tigers, and Indians, oh my! Hmmm. That’s not how it goes, you say? Lions and tigers, and bears, oh my! Ok. That's it. This one enduring line from the equally enduring classic book “The ...