Chittenango

I love a dance studio.

What's the two like are better competing in Chittenango when we go? There's two.

Yeah.

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So I was born and raised in upstate New York, or central New York, sorry, that's my New York City geographic bias coming through.

Was born in Saratoga Springs, grew up in Chittenango, went to Chittenango High School.

I graduated from Cornell.

And my family is still largely here.

Mm-hmm.

And then last year, 2025, we were in Chittenango, which was so much fun.

And then this year, 2026, was in New York City.

Welcome to New York.

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when I was at Stella Park in Chittenango on Sunday, I, there must've been a football game on Sunday.

Yep, that's r- that's right there.

And it was right there.

It was exciting

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Chittenango, I mean-

They a good football team?

But he also wrote 41 other novels, uh, 83 short stories, and over 200 poems, and several scripts, because he absolutely loved the theater.

Born in Chittenango, New York, Baum initially pursued a career in theater as a producer and a playwright before moving into journalism and later writing children's literature.

In 1897, he published his first book, Mother Goose in Prose, followed by Father Goose.

Father Goose became, like, a bestselling children's book, which established Baum as a successful children's author.