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Baum was a New Yorker by birth and a Midwesterner by choice.

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I did not know about his being from New York. His values were certainly mid-western. :)

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L. Frank Baum did move his family to California, after he became famous. Specifically to a tiny, orange orchard-surrounded village called Hollywood, where he was one of the pioneers of that newfangled technology, motion pictures. I researched his life when I was working on a novel, and discovered he called his California home "Ozcott" ... sadly, it no longer exists.

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Wow, this is very interesting. So he moved to my neck of the woods after all. :) LOL Thanks for pitching in with your comment, Mark. :)

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