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Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation to host virtual event around new PBS film about ‘Wizard of Oz’ writer
Updated Apr 15, 2021;
Posted Apr 15, 2021
Central New York native L. Frank Baum wrote the children s classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
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The Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation will be partnering with PBS on Tuesday night, April 20, for a special virtual event surrounding one of the most beloved stories in American literature.
Following the premier the night before of “American Oz,” a new documentary about Central New York native L. Frank Baum, the author of “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” the Gage Center will hold a Zoom Q&A with filmmakers Randall MacLowry and Tracy Heater Strain, who together wrote, directed and produced the film for PBS’ “American Experience” series.
SYRACUSE, NY (WRVO) – When Kamala Harris is sworn in today as the nation’s first female vice president, it’s a milestone that will not go unnoticed in central New York. It’s a day that Sally Roesch Wagner, a women’s suffrage movement historian and founder of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation in Fayetteville, has been waiting for, for a long time. Though, Wagner said it’s been a much longer wait for Gage, who was a 19th century suffragist.
“I think she would say, ‘Finally. What took you this long? In 1884, I was an elector at large in the Equal Rights Party ticket when we had a woman for president and a woman for vice president and the media said we were the campaign that was raising the most issues. It’s taken you this long to get a vice president and you’ve never had a woman president?’” Wagner said. “She hounds me with her anger and frustration, even from the grave.”