Land of oz

'Land of Oz' Theme Park in North Carolina Will Reopen in June

The Emerald City (The Wizard of Oz) by One Horse Town, via Flickr:

Based on the iconic 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz, the Land of Oz attraction park in Beech Mountain has a fascinating story to tell.

These are the official Oz canon, written by L. Frank Baum, who created Oz, and the subsequent "Royal Historians of Oz" These form the basis of the "Famous Forty", "Sovereign Sixty", and "Supreme Seventy-Five" numbering systems. 1. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) 2. The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904) 3. Ozma of Oz (1907) 4. Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (1908) 5. The Road to Oz (1909) 6. The Emerald City of Oz (1910) 7. The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1913) 8. Tik-Tok of Oz (1914) 9. The Scarecrow of…

Munchkin Land - The Wizard of Oz

Apparently somewhere over the rainbow is pretty darn creepy. In the quiet wilderness of Beech Mountain, NC, lies the Land of Oz theme park, a once-abandoned ...

Emerald City

My earliest travels in an Imaginary Land were in Oz. I started with the film but was delighted to find one day that there was a book about Oz. Very different from the film but full of scenes and characters that were just astonishing.

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

see also Emerald Castle "When Morning arrived, the travelers were filled with high spirits as they continued to follow the Yellow Brick Road. Soon they saw before them in the distance a beautiful bright green glow in the sky. "That must be the City of Emeralds!" said Dorothy to her companions. As they walked on, the green glow became brighter and brighter, and it seemed that at last they were nearing the end of their long journey. Yet was late afternoon before the little party came to the…

“Follow the yellow brick road. Follow the yellow brick road. Follow, follow, follow, follow, follow the yellow brick road.” Our futures can at times seem so uncertain and terrifying th…

Wizard of Oz

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