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March 07th, 2014

3/7/2014

Penny Jacobs Johnston

7/22/2014 12:51:07 pm

Jennifer, I ran across this article today. Dorothy Martindale Jacobs was my paternal grandmother. I tried to print off a copy of this article but to no avail. I sure would like to have a copy of the article and picture if at all possible. Thanks for your consideration. Look forward to hearing from you.

Penny Jacobs Johnston

7/22/2014 02:21:01 pm

Finally got it to print. thank you.

Jennifer Naze

7/23/2014 03:46:20 am

Dear Ms. Penny Johnston,

Thank you so much for reading the blog!

I'm really glad you were able to print the blog about your Grandmother Dorothy.

It was a fun experience learning about the relationship your Grandmother had with Mr. Baum and how he changed "his" Dorothy to match your Grandmother's appearance.

I hope that you have a wonderful day and take care!

EJ Broekhuis

12/28/2014 11:25:16 am

Hello Penny.
I'm hoping you will re-visit this blog. I'm trying to find any descendants of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Stickley, as I recently purchased their GR residence, and am trying to put together the history of the property in order to begin some restoration work. Any correspondence, photographs, or oral history would be appreciated.

Thank you.

EJ Broekhuis

Brad Hietikko link

12/14/2016 08:43:03 am

Hello cousin Penny.

Here is more to the story -

http://halfpuddinghalfsauce.blogspot.com/2016/12/john-wood-blodgett-and-wizard-of-oz.html

http://halfpuddinghalfsauce.blogspot.com/2016/12/mr-stickley-builds-his-dream-cottage.html

Dawn Jacobs

1/22/2018 06:25:02 pm

I am a great granddaughter to Dorthy

Brad Hietikko link

5/30/2019 08:55:24 am

A new documentary on the origins of Oz and Dorthy. In it the Great grandson of Baum basically concludes that the inspiration for Dorothy was probably a conglomerate of people he knew. The name Dorothy more than likely came from his wife's sisters child that past away at 5 months. My(Our) Dorthy meet Baum when his Dorthy had already been written.

"What's your name?"

"Dorothy," was the answer. "Well, my little girl is named Dorothy, too, and from now on she's going to wear a blue hair ribbon just like yours."

If any of my relatives can contact me with what you might know or have, please do.

The "Dorthy" in the documentary was a Dorthy Gale is featured as being the inspiration. Based on her own denials in the 1970's she was not the muse for Baum.

The documentary - https://www.wzzm13.com/oz

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