About the first thing I saw at the memorial was Sam-I-Am running towards me
bearing a big plate of green eggs and ham. Here you see him from both sides.
Also running toward me were Thing One and Thing Two.
All of the above are part of Horton Court, which features a full-sized Horton
the Elephant and Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose as well as several Cat In The Hat
characters, all springing out of a giant walk-through book.
This kid seems to have the right idea.
After all that fantasy, here's a little reality; Dr. Seuss at work at his drawing table.
Although it's a little strange to call a sculpture reality. It's a question of how
many levels of fantasy you're dealing with at any time. That's the Cat in the Hat,
his muse, standing behind him. You can see the whole thing in the background of the
previous picture. Note the chair legs and what's in back of the chair. Maybe there's
always a level of fantasy involved when you talk about Dr. Seuss.
At the far end of the quadrangle from Horton Court is a small sculpture of the Lorax
standing on a stump inscribed "unless". The Boston Globe had a photo of this when
it did an article about the dedication of the memorial the weekend before we were there.
After I tried to photograph the other sculptures, I saw why they featured this one:
the others are very hard to photograph because there's always something else in the
background. This one is easy to isolate against a big lawn.
Back at the Horton Court end of the quadrangle there's another book, this one standing
open upright with the text of Oh the Places You'll Go on it and a big bronze chair,
the Storyteller's Chair, in front of it. The Grinch and his dog (with fake reindeer
antlers tied on its head) stand next to it. I tried talking with the Grinch.
Arlene tried out the Storyteller's Chair
... So did I...
This beautiful building is at the other end of the quadrangle.