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Mapping Imagined Worlds: Oz

The town of Lorgnette resides on the edge of Winkie Country. A small town, with only a hundred residents, it was once a farming village but now is known primarily for it’s production of the Emerald City’s green eyeglasses. When the Emerald City was first being built, the Great Wizard of Oz noticed a need to protect the eyes from such an amazing sight, he ventured into Winkie country and came across a small village. In this village a family known as Glass lived. They were skilled eyeglass makers. The Wizard showed the Glass man a piece of what the Emerald City was being constructed out of and asked him for eyeglasses that could help protect his citizens vision while being in the presence of the beauty of the city. The Glass man took the piece of the city and started fashioning some eyeglasses. A skilled man, he quickly gave the Wizard what he asked for. However, he was not able to return the piece of the city, for he was known to be a clumsy man and had shattered the piece into many