News - International Wizard of Oz Club

As news of our friend Sally’s death spreads across the Oz community, we share the collective sorrow at our great loss. Just Monday Sally sent us her academic credentials in the hope that her par...

By Jane Albright One advantage for Oz collectors of having a collector chair an Oz Club convention, is that you won’t leave empty handed. And I’m a collector. “Yes” to the usual sticker-and-butt...

Of course we have more presenters!  Here are three, starting with our Oz Club President, Ryan Bunch. Ryan Bunch takes the podium Friday afternoon to share his understanding of the controversial Saturd...

While by there very nature Oz conventions are experienced as live events and destination settings to explore, we will take the opportunity to watch three films together in Aberdeen.  We’ll start Sunda...

We’ve put the fun into fundraising for an interactive Saturday evening program July 19. Our Aberdeen Recreation and Cultural Center ballroom will be decorated to an Emerald City theme; everyone is enc...

One highlight of the Oz Club’s annual convention is the announcement of that year’s award winners. Three annual contests solicit entries for original Oz fiction, research, and artwork. The Club’s L.Fr...

After a full day of programming at the KO Lee Library, our group will cross the street to the Aberdeen Recreational and Cultural Center for Friday’s dinner and our evening program. The venue will be c...

The International Wizard of Oz Club is pleased to offer outstanding presenters on our 2025 convention program–all with unparalleled expertise in L. Frank Baum and his Aberdeen years.  Michael Pa...

Matilda Jewel Gage was born April 22nd, 1886, making her not yet three years old when her father’s sister, Maud Baum, Maud’s husband Frank, and their two sons moved to Aberdeen. Unlike the Baum boys w...