And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street - Springfield, MA
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Mulberry Street is in Dr. Seuss's boyhood hometown of Springfield.
Waymark Code: WMCZ94
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 10/29/2011
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"All the long way to school
and all the way back
I've looked and I've looked
and kept careful track,
But all that I've noticed
except my own feet
was a horse and a wagon
on Mulberry Street"
--Dr. Seuss
And so begins a tale of a young boy's imagination that turns a horse and a wagon on Mulberry Street into a fantastic extravaganza.
Theodor Seuss Geisel was born on March 2, 1904. His first children's book is "And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street". Mulberry Street, the location for this story, is less than a mile from his boyhood home on Fairfield Street. The illustrations for this book contain Springfield imagery. A Mayor Fordis Parker look-alike is on the reviewing stand for the parade. The police officers riding red motorcycles, the traditional color of the iconic Indian Motorcycles manufactured in Springfield.
There is now a plaque near the site of one of the original homes on Mulberry Street acknowledging Mulberry Street as the the locale for the story. It is inscribed:
This was the site of one of Mulberry's Street's oldest
houses, Circa 1830. Mulberry Street was memorialized in
"AND TO THINK THAT I SAW IT ON MULBERRY STREET"
the first book authored by Springfield native
Theodore Geisel, known as Dr. Seuss