"I cannot understand why you should wish to leave this beautiful country and go back to the dry, gray place you call Kansas," the Scarecrow tells Dorothy in L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." "That is because you have no brains," Dorothy responds. "No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home." Although the line, "There's no place like home" is better known today for its use in Victor Fleming's 1939 big screen musical adaptation of the text, the novel's sentiment is one that's hard to dismiss when stepping through the entrance of Pontiac's Raleigh Michigan Studios. It's here...
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