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The yellow brick road is a fictional element in the 1900 children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by American author L. Frank Baum. The road also appears in the several sequel Oz books such as The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904) and The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1913).

The road's most notable portrayal is in the classic 1939 MGM musical movie The Wizard of Oz, loosely based on Baum's first Oz book. In the novel's first edition the road is mostly referred to as the 'Road of Yellow Bricks'. In the original story and in later films based on it such as The Wiz (1978), Dorothy Gale must find the road before embarking on her journey, as the tornado did not deposit her farmhouse directly in front of it as in the 1939 film.

Road's history[edit]

The following is an excerpt from the third chapter of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, in which Dorothy sets off to see the Wizard:

...'There were several roads near by, but it did not take Dorothy long to find the one paved with yellow bricks. Within a short time she was walking briskly toward the Emerald City; her Silver Shoes tinkling merrily on the hard, yellow road-bed '.

The road is first introduced in the third chapter of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The road begins in the heart of the eastern quadrant called Munchkin Country in the Land of Oz. It functions as a guideline that leads all who follow it, to the road's ultimate destination—the imperial capital of Oz called Emerald City that is located in the exact center of the entire continent. In the book, the novel's main protagonist, Dorothy, is forced to search for the road before she can begin her quest to seek the Wizard. This is because the cyclone from Kansas did not release her farmhouse closely near it as it did in the various film adaptations. After the council with the native Munchkins and their dear friend the Good Witch of the North, Dorothy begins looking for it and sees many pathways and roads nearby, (all of which lead in various directions). Thankfully it doesn't take her too long to spot the one paved with bright yellow bricks.

Later in the book, Dorothy and her companions, the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman and Cowardly Lion discover that the road has fallen into disrepair in some parts of the land, having several broken chasms ending at dangerous cliffs with deadly drops. In the end of the book we learn the road's history; unlike in Walt Disney's prequel film Oz the Great and Powerful (2013), the Emerald City and yellow brick road did not exist prior to Oz's arrival. When Oscar Diggs arrived in Oz via hot air-balloon that had been swept away in a storm, the people of the land were convinced he was a great 'Wizard' who had finally come to fulfill Oz's long-awaited prophecy. Since the recent fall of Oz's mortal King Pastoria, and the mysterious disappearance of his baby daughter Princess Ozma, Oscar immediately proclaimed himself as Oz's new dominant ruler and had his people build the road as well as the city in his honor.

In the second Oz book, The Marvelous Land of Oz, Tip and his companion Jack Pumpkinhead, likewise follow a yellow brick road to reach Emerald City while traveling from Oz's northern quadrant, the Gillikin Country.^[1] In the book The Patchwork Girl of Oz, it is revealed that there are two yellow brick roads from Munchkin Country to the Emerald City: according to the Shaggy Man, Dorothy took the longer and more dangerous one in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.^[1]

In the classic 1939 film, a red brick road can be seen starting at the same point as the yellow brick road and is entwined with it, despite seemingly going in a different direction. This version of the road does not exist in Baum's books. Also, at the cornfield where Dorothy meets and befriends the Scarecrow, there is a fork in the yellow brick road leading in different directions. Luckily they choose the correct one of the three branches that leads to Emerald City.

In Disney's 1985 live action semi-sequel to the 1939 movie Return to Oz, Dorothy returns to Oz six months after being sent back home to Kansas from her first visit. Upon her second arrival she finds the yellow brick road in ruins by the hands of the evil Nome King who also conquered the Emerald City. In the end, it is presumed that after she defeats him and saves the city and its citizens, the road is restored as well.

Real yellow brick roads[edit]

The actual road is believed to be one in Peekskill, New York, where L. Frank Baum attended Peekskill Military Academy.^[2] According to a local legend, the Yellow Brick Road was derived from a road paved with yellow bricks near Holland, Michigan, where Baum spent summers.^{[citation needed]}Ithaca, New York, also makes a claim for being Frank Baum's inspiration. He opened a road tour of his musical, The Maid of Arran, in Ithaca, and he met his future wife Maud Gage Baum while she was attending Cornell University. At the time, yellow bricks paved local roads.^[3] Yellow brick roads can also be found in Aberdeen, South Dakota; Albany, New York; Rossville (Baltimore County), Maryland; Montclair, New Jersey (Parkhurst Place and Afterglow Way); Bronxville, New York (on Prescott and Valley roads); Chicago, Illinois; Liberal, Kansas; Sedan, Kansas and Chittenango, New York, as well as a school in Abington, Pennsylvania, and abroad in Sofia, Bulgaria. In addition, portions of U.S. Route 54 within the state of Kansas have been designated 'the yellow brick road'.^[4]

Two direct, and the only published, references to the origin of the Yellow Brick Road came from Baum's own descendants: his son Frank Joslyn Baum in To Please A Child and the other by Roger S. Baum, the great-grandson of L. Frank Baum who stated, 'Most people don't realize that the Wizard of Oz was written in Chicago, and the Yellow Brick Road was named after winding cobblestone roads in Holland, Michigan, where great-grandfather spent vacations with his family.'

Dallas, Texas makes a claim that Baum once stayed at a downtown hotel during his newspaper career (located near what is now the Triple Underpass) at a time when the streets were paved with wooden blocks of Bois D'Arc also known as Osage Orange. Supposedly, after a rainstorm the sun came out and he saw a bright yellow brick road from the window of his room.

The Vision Oz Fund was established in November 2009 to raise funds that will be used to help increase the awareness, enhancement, and further development of Oz-related attractions and assets in Wamego, Kansas. The first fundraiser is underway and includes selling personalized engraved yellow bricks, which will become part of the permanent walkway (aka 'The Yellow Brick Road') in downtown Wamego.^[5]

In popular culture[edit]

• Inspired the title, artwork, and title song of Elton John's 1973 album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.
• Inspired the title of the song by American musician, artist and poet Don Van Vliet, also known as Captain Beefheart, on his 1967 album Safe as Milk.
• Inspired the title of the 2010 horror film YellowBrickRoad.
• A song by Arctic Monkeys is called 'Old Yellow Bricks'.
• Commenting on the song 'The Sweet Escape,' singer Gwen Stefani stated that it would put her 'on the yellow brick road to the No Doubt record I might do.'^[6]
• Oprah Winfrey has referred to her success as a 'yellow brick road of blessings' during both the announcement of the decision to end her talk show and the farewell episode.^[7][8]
• In the video game Wizard101, there is a sidequest named 'Yellow Brick Road' in which players check up on Dorothy Gale. It is followed by the quest 'Not in Kansas Anymore'.
• Angus and Julia Stone also referred to the Yellow Brick Road in a song of the same name.
• The American band Breaking Benjamin also referred to the Yellow Brick Road in their song 'Home'.
• In 'Gypsy', a song from Lady Gaga's Artpop, she sings 'So I just packed my baggage and / Said goodbye to family and friends / And took a road to nowhere on my own / Like Dorothy on the yellow brick / Hope my ruby shoes get us there quick.'^[9]
• The band Muse use a sample of 'Follow the Yellow Brick Road' in the outro of their 2015 song Reapers.
• Inspired the title of the famous ice cream shop Yellow Brick Road in Brick, NJ.^[10]
• Eminem used 'Yellow Brick Road' as title to the track number 4 from his album Encore, which portrays his childhood.
• The road also appears in LEGO Dimensions, where the main characters: Batman, Gandalf, and Wyldstyle arrive at and they encounter Dorothy and her group along with the Wicked Witch of the West. Later, fragments of the road were summon to help the trio reach Foundation Prime's palace.
• In the song: 'Down where I am' by Demons & Wizards, the Yellow Brick Road is mentioned in the refrain: 'Farewell to you Yellow Brick Road'.
• There are several references to The wizard of Oz and the yellow brick road in the Stargate franchise, Particularly in Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis
• The expression 'Where is the yellow brick road when you need it' or 'I see the yellow Brick road' has transiently passed into and out of the vernacular, the 'yellow brick road' being analogous to 'light at the end of the tunnel', the phrase can be used optimistically, sarcastically, or cynically.

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Notes[edit]

1. ^ ^abL. Frank Baum, Michael Patrick Hearn, The Annotated Wizard of Oz, p 107, ISBN0-517-50086-8
2. ^Banjo, Shelly (31 May 2011). 'Historian Believes if You Follow the Yellow Brick Road, You End Up in Peekskill'. Wall Street Journal. Dow Jones & Company. Retrieved 25 August 2014.
3. ^'Facts & Triva About Ithaca'. VisitIthaca.com. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
4. ^'K.S.A. 68-1029'. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
5. ^'Wamego Community Foundation'. Thewcf.org. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
6. ^'For The Record: Quick News On Rihanna, Luda, Lady Sov, Kelis, Nas, Harry Potter, Angelina Jolie & More'. MTV News. MTV Networks. 14 December 2006. Retrieved 25 December 2006.
7. ^'Oprah Announces Plans to End The Oprah Winfrey Show in September 2011'. Oprah.com. 20 November 2009.
8. ^'Oprah Signs Off After 25 Years of The Oprah Winfrey Show'. Oprah.com. 25 May 2011.
9. ^Lady Gaga (2013). Gypsy (Music). Berlin, Germany. Retrieved 24 October 2013.
10. ^https://www.facebook.com/pages/Yellow-Brick-Road-Ice-Cream-Shops/121800102317

Further reading[edit]

• Dighe, Ranjit S. ed. The Historian's Wizard of Oz: Reading L. Frank Baum's Classic as a Political and Monetary Allegory (2002)
• Hearn, Michael Patrick (ed). (2000, 1973) The Annotated Wizard of Oz. W. W. Norton & Co. ISBN0-393-04992-2
• Ritter, Gretchen. 'Silver slippers and a golden cap: L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and historical memory in American politics.' Journal of American Studies (August 1997) vol. 31, no. 2, 171-203. online at JSTOR
• Rockoff, Hugh. 'The 'Wizard of Oz' as a Monetary Allegory,' Journal of Political Economy 98 (1990): 739-60 online at JSTOR

Arthur Raymond (Ray) Halbritter (born 1951) is the current Nation Representative and CEO of Oneida Nation Enterprises. A member of the Oneida Indian Nation's Wolf Clan, he is a former ironworker.

Biography[edit]

Ray Halbritter, Nation Representative of the Oneida Indian Nation Inc. since 1975 and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of its enterprises since 1990, has led the Oneida people to an economic and cultural renaissance during the past 30 years. His accomplishments include achieving federal government recognition of the Nation’s traditional form of government, creating numerous health and social programs for Nation Members, constructing new housing, and establishing education and culture programs. Halbritter earned his law degree from Harvard Law School and a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from Syracuse University.

An avid golfer, Halbritter passed the Players Ability Test, making him a golf pro apprentice, the first stage to become a member of the Professional Golfers Association.^[1]

Oneida Nation[edit]

Under Halbritter’s leadership, the Oneida Nation endowed a professorship at Harvard Law School for teaching American Indian law,^[2] sponsored the “True Spirit of Thanksgiving,” the first-ever American Indian-sponsored float in the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade,^[3] and earned the 2007 Condé Nast Johansens “Most Excellent Resort” award for all resorts in the U.S. and Canada.^[4] As one of the donors to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian, the Oneida Indian Nation of New York had the fourth floor named in its honor. The Oneida Nation also hosts the PGA TOUR Turning Stone Resort Championship, the first regularly scheduled green PGA TOUR event to be held on tribal lands, which was honored for Best Branding and Signage in 2009.

The Oneida Nation’s businesses include Turning Stone Resort Casino, Yellow Brick Road Casino, Point Place Casino, the SavOn chain of convenience stores, and a media operation that encompasses Indian Country Today Media Network, the largest native national weekly newspaper in the U.S. and a media production company.

Halbritter is executive producer of a Grammy-nominated record album, Raccoon & Crawfish, and a 3-D animated exert short film, the animation of which won a Silver Davey Award, given to the best work by small firms worldwide. It was screened at Cannes Film Festival, as well as winning numerous awards in the U.S. and abroad, including top animation honors at Moondance Film Festival and Big Bear International Film Festival. Halbritter produced the World of American Indian Dance, which aired on NBC, in addition to interactive animated material on Oneida history that is used at the Utica Children’s Museum. He assisted Disney with native music background for the Walt Disney World July 4 Celebration.

Through its enterprises, the Nation has earned national and international recognition and honors, including Four Diamond ratings from AAA for the resort’s luxury hotels and one of its restaurants. It was named as the Academy of Country Music’s Casino of the Year. All three of Turning Stone’s championship-caliber golf courses were listed in Golfweek magazine’s list of Top 100 courses in the country, in addition to receiving multiple other golf awards. (A full list of golf awards is attached.) The Nation’s Atunyote Golf Course hosts both the Turning Stone Resort Championship and the annual Notah Begay III Foundation Challenge charity event, which Tiger Woods won in 2009.

Service[edit]

Halbritter is chairman of the Turning Stone Resort Championship and the Upstate New York Empowerment Fund, the charitable arm of the tournament, which has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for dozens of Central New York charities and civic groups. He serves on the boards of directors of the Environmental Media Association and the Harvard Native American Law Board. He is a member of the Recording Academy; the National Advisory Council for the American Indian Program at Cornell University; the National Congress of American Indians; and United South and Eastern Tribes.

Recognition[edit]

Halbritter was named one of Temple Adath Yeshurun’s Citizens of the Year in 2008. He also won the “Person of Achievement” Award from The Post-Standard (Syracuse), the Paul Harris Fellow Award from the Rotary Foundation, an award from the Rome Area Chamber of Commerce for “Outstanding Contribution to the Economic Vitality of the Community,” and the Central New York Sales & Marketing Executives Crystal Ball award, presented for business vision, commitment to improving the lives of his people, and the Nation’s economic contributions to Central New York. Syracuse University gave him its Distinguished Entrepreneur Award, and SU Basketball Coach Jim Boeheim presented Halbritter with the Coaches Vs. Cancer Basketball Award and honored him as Fan of the Year in 2009.

Washington Redskins Protest[edit]

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Halbritter has been leading a vocal protest against the name of the NFL Washington Redskins team, calling it racially insensitive. On January 31, 2014 he met with the Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights at U.N. headquarters in Manhattan^[5]

Criticism[edit]

Critics inside the tribe have accused Halbritter of being a dictator, a heavy-handed leader who 'answers to no one,' according to Doug George-Kanentiio, the co-founder of the Native American Journalists Association.^[6] Halbritter's initiatives have been criticized by some Oneida, who say he has violated the Great Law of the Haudenosaunee by embracing gambling. They also fault him for selecting his own clan mothers and for creating a 'men's council,' both unheard-of practices in Haudenosaunee tradition.^[7]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^Official Approved Bio supplied by the Oneida Indian Nation, 2009
2. ^'Harvard Law School Announces Oneida Indian Nation Professorship'. Harvard University. Retrieved May 28, 2012.
3. ^'For Sixth Straight Year, Oneida Nation Float to be Featured in Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade'. Oneida Indian Nation. Archived from the original on 2014-01-28. Retrieved 2014-06-20.
4. ^'Condé Nast Johansens Luxury Hotel Guide Announces Winners of their 2007'(PDF). GLODOW·NEAD COMMUNICATIONS, LLC. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2012-05-12.
5. ^http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/01/24/redskins-name-debate-reaches-united-nations/
6. ^Vargas, Theresa; Shin, Annys (November 17, 2013). 'Oneida Indian Nation is the tiny tribe taking on the NFL and Dan Snyder over Redskins name'. Washington Post.
7. ^'Christian Peacemaker Teams' Oneida Report'. 2014-06-20.

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