SUNDAY, May 30th at 1:30pm: TEA TIME with L. Frank Baum Continues

 

TEATIME with L. Frank Baum continues in the Fireside room with Corwyn Allen, Rik Merlin, Kayden Connell, Gloriana Maertens, and Caledonia Skytower, live on stream.

TODAY: from AMERICAN FAIRY TALES ~ The Capture of Father Time, The Dummy That Lived, The King of the Polar Bears, and the Introduction from SEA FAIRIES (which we'll read more from in our final session next week)

Lyman Frank Baum (May 15th, 1856 – May 6th, 1919) was an American author best known for his children’s books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its sequels (14 novels in all). His prolific output included 55 novels, 83 short stories,  over 200 poems and at least 42 scripts.

Baum sought to create a uniquely American mythology separate from any European roots. In typically Yankee fashion, he accomplished this by creating a melting pot of story archetypes, mixed and brewed into a somewhat satirical, sometimes glib, very tongue-in-cheek concoction that still manages a certain quaintness.

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SUNDAY, May 23rd at 1:30pm: TEATIME with L. Frank Baum

TEATIME with L. Frank Baum continues in the Fireside room with Corwyn Allen, Rik Merlin, Gloriana Maertens, and Caledonia Skytower, live on stream.

Lyman Frank Baum (May 15th, 1856 – May 6th, 1919) was an American author best known for his children’s books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its sequels (14 novels in all). His prolific output included 55 novels, 83 short stories,  over 200 poems and at least 42 scripts.

Baum sought to create a uniquely American mythology separate from any European roots. In typically Yankee fashion, he accomplished this by creating a melting pot of story archetypes, mixed and brewed into a somewhat satirical, sometimes glib, very tongue-in-cheek concoction that still manages a certain quaintness.

TODAY: from AMERICAN FAIRY TALES ~ The Glass Dog, The Enchanted Types, and The Queen of Quok.

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TUESDAY, August 5th at 7pm: L. Frank Baum's AMERICAN FAIRY TALES

Our Faerie has returned from her travels!  And she's brought L.Frank Baum, the Master of Oz,  with her!

Tonight Faerie shares selected tales from Baum's 1901 collection of twelve fantasy stories "American Fairy Tales."

Most people don't realize how huge the Frank Baum canon really is.  Like Arthur Conan Doyle, and J.M. Barrie, the entirely of Baum's work tends to be overshadowed by what is considered his magnus opus.

He is best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a host of other works (55 novels in total, plus four "lost" novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of scripts, and many miscellaneous writings), and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen. His works anticipated such century-later commonplaces as television, augmented reality, laptop computers (The Master Key), wireless telephones (Tik-Tok of Oz), women in high risk, action-heavy occupations (Mary Louise in the Country), and the ubiquity of advertising on clothing (Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work).

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