Sheet music for "Pretty Mollie Shannon" In the spring of 1902, a firecracker named Mabel Barrison was cast in The Wizard of Oz . T...

Back before Christmas, I mentioned a forthcoming children's book, Fred Stone and the Frontier Circus , about the early circus careers of...

  Original poster featuring Montgomery & Stone in The Wizard of Oz (1903). Today is the 123rd anniversary of the first performance of Th...

Earlier this year I had the good fortune of becoming acquainted with Fred Stone's granddaughter, Judy Sloane - the daughter of Fred'...

L. Frank Baum, Playwright Guest Blogger Eric Shanower As a playwright, L. Frank Baum seemed to have little patience with editorial interfere...

Guest Blogger Eric Shanower Eric Shanower presenting at OzCon International , July 2024. At  Oz Con International  in July 2024, I gave a pr...

How did L. Frank Baum, the author of  The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,  create the stage show called  The Tik-Tok Man of Oz?  How did Louis F. Go...