It's Dr. Seuss's Birthday!

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Theodor Seuss Geisel was born on this day(March 2) in 1904. He was a grandson of German immigrants and Seuss was his mother's maiden name. In 1925 he was a senior at Dartmouth college. The local police chief caught Geisel and some friends partying with a pint of bootleg gin. This caused him to be fired from his editor-in-chief job at the Dartmouth humor magazine. He then continued to do cartoons for the magazine using different pen names and Dr.Seuss was born. His first book was "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street" in 1937 and went on to write more than 60 books. Some interest facts about the author are that he dabbled in "unorthodox taxidermy" creating such creatures as the "carbonic walrus" and "the Mulberry Street unicorn". Some cultural commentators feel that Seuss's use of the phrase "A Nerkle, a Nerd, and a Seer-Sucker, too" in his book "If I Ran the Zoo" may have been when the word "nerd" was first used. Just steps away from The Amazing World of Dr.Seuss Museum in Springfield, Massachusetts is the Dr.Seuss National Memorial Sculpture Garden. It has bronze sculptures of characters like the Grinch, the Lorax, and the Horton Elephant. The garden has had more than 3 million visitors since in opened in 2002. He died on September 24, 1991 of throat cancer. Picture is courtesy of Flickr.com