Over the Hedge by T Lewis and Michael Fry for May 27, 2014

It’s Verne: the good witch!

A flying Verne,COOL !

And he was born in Chittenango, NY which holds an OZfest every year. Story has it that he got the name Oz from his two drawer file cabinet: top one was A-N and the bottom one O-Z.

Mostly spot on, except Baum didn’t play baseball. He formed and managed the team. Thank goodness Verne didn’t get to Baum’s newspaper career and his controversial editorials calling for the extermination of the local Sioux!

verne, I dont think your in the neighborhood any more. tap your shell 3 times and say, theres no place like home…..

The lion costume was made of real lion.

I cannot defend that Sioux editorial completely, but it should be noted that, at one point, what it seems to boil down to is, “Since we Whites have done everything possible to destroy them, their society, and their dignity, maybe we should at least have the decency to give them warriors’ deaths.”