The connections between Finger Lakes and Racine explain why the author of the Wizard of Oz grew up on Finger Lakes and why the actor who played the Wizard of Oz went to school at Finger Lakes (Cornell). It's because the "men behind the curtain" live in Racine and join the Sphinx Head Society at Cornell, which is why the Wizard of Oz held it's premier in Kenosha in 1939, the same year that Frank Lloyd Wright built an "Emerald City" complex in Racine consisting of the Johnson administration building, the Johnson research tower and Wingspread conference center which spawned many of the most important institutions of the 20th century ranging from the first nuclear arms control agreements and the international criminal court, to NPR and the curriculum for American schools.

It explains why SC Johnson made the biggest donation in Cornell's history the same year that Joe Biden spoke there, and why Biden went to Racine to endorse a rigged referendum the same year that he stole the presidential election.