"The celebration of the child's imagination – and the lack of that creative spark in the father (in the Mulberry Street book) – was a very pointed critique of how adult society often tries to tame inventiveness," Michelson said. Geisel's upbringing and the community here sparked much of his own imagination. "We first experience the world through a specific locale, and most good writers can transform their own specific memories into a universal feeling that resonates with all readers because of a certain universal attachment to our surroundings." Where people come from – including the street, house and room where they first lived – is often at the core of who they become, says Northampton-based children's author Richard Michelson. "His childhood was very important – the impressions, the people he met, the things he saw," McLain said.
Most of Geisel's books have a connection to Springfield because his childhood here was key in forming the images that appear in his books, according to McLain. McLain, director of the Lyman & Merrie Wood Museum of Springfield History. Geisel, author of "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street," which marks its 75th anniversary this fall, lived on Fairfield Street in the Forest Park section of the City of Homes.īut it's likely he walked or rode the trolley past Mulberry Street on his way to Classical High School on State Street, says Guy A. Seuss never lived on Mulberry Street, but oh, to think of all the things he saw growing up here a century ago. This is a classic that will never fade with age.SPRINGFIELD – Dr.
His ode to the imagination of a child is as fresh and exquisitely outlandish today as it was when first published in 1937. "Say! That makes a story that no one can beat, / When I say that I saw it on Mulberry Street." Time and again, Marco tops himself until he is positively wound up with excitement and bursts into his home to tell his dad what he saw on Mulberry Street. Marco's story grows ever more elaborate as he reasons that a reindeer would be happier pulling a sled, then that a really unusual sight would be an elephant with a ruby-bedecked rajah enthroned on top. No, wait! Maybe it should be a reindeer in that harness. Or better yet, the zebra could be pulling a blue and gold chariot. Imagine if he had something more to report, say, a zebra pulling the wagon. His father has instructed him to keep his eyes peeled for interesting sights on the way to and from school, but all Marco has seen is a boring old horse and wagon.
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