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2006 Winkie Convention and Oz Collectors Fair
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The 2006 Winkie Convention and Oz Collectors Fair celebrates the one-hundred-fiftieth anniversary of the birth of L. Frank Baum with one of the strongest Oz programs ever put together on the West Coast. Expect a program with a variety of presentations to help us celebrate L. Frank Baum's wide-ranging contributions to Oz and children's literature.
We also honor the fiftieth anniversary of the first television broadcast of the MGM movie, The Wizard of Oz. Special guests include Margaret Pellegrini and Clarence Swensen, two of the little people cast as Munchkins in 1939, and John Fricke, the Emmy-award-winning historian of Oz and the beloved movie.
Celebrated writer Sherwood Smith, author of a completely new series of original Oz novels, will address the conventioneers about her experience in developing the books. Robert A. Baum, great-grandson of L. Frank Baum, and Patrick Maund and Peter Hanff, will read from original documents to give us insight into the vivid and creative imagination of L. Frank Baum as an author.
We will also pay special tribute to John Dough and the Cherub, Baum's non-Oz fantasy novel of 1906 in honor of its centennial. In addition, in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the expiration of copyright in The Wizard of Oz, we may acknowledge how publishers and illustrators to interpreted Oz in wonderful new ways after 1956.
Our new auction coordinator and auctioneer will be Bill Thompson. He is pulling together some exciting things to offer, including some of Baum's Boy Fortune Hunters Series titles, Copp-Clark Canadian issues of the Oz books with color plates, some Christmas Stocking Series books, and some of Ruth Plumly Thompson's pamphlet-format stories. The auction each year showcases the breadth of L. Frank Baum's influence on American children's books and collectibles, and our auction in 2006 will be another celebration of the sesquicentennial of his birth.
The great popularity of our Saturday morning seminar on collecting, collectors, and booksellers will result in our scheduling one or more seminars for Saturday morning in 2006. In addition, we are planning to encourage sellers of books and collectibles to plan on being accessible for many more hours than has been possible in recent years.
Winners will be named in our traditional Oz costume contest, and in competitions for original Oz fiction, research, and art work. Oz quizzes for children, adults, and Oz masters will also be part of the weekend. Bring your curious finds to the Oz Collectibles Road Show where experts help collectors identify what you have and what it may be worth in today's market. Expect to see a newly revived Oz treasure hunt on Sunday morning, too. If you have questions or suggestions about the program, please email to the Chair of the Program Planning Committee, Lynn Beltz (ferrywa@televar.com). Direct questions about reservations to Registrar, Peter Hanff (phanff@library.berkeley.edu).
The beautiful seaside Asilomar Conference Grounds (in Pacific Grove on the Monterey Peninsula in California) serves once again as our Ozzy Oasis, but space is limited, so register early!
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