As a Dartmouth grad Dr. Seuss is taken quite seriously around here. He is often the theme of Dartmouth’s winter carnival, many locals have stories to tell (Eve’s teacher met him), and each year to celebrate his birthday they hold a Seusstival! Actually, I don’t really know how long they’ve been doing that since this is the first year we attended. Expecting a carnival-like atmosphere we headed to the local Seusstival yesterday. It was fun, though not quite what I was expecting. We got there just as a local production of The Lorax was ending. We missed the show but we got to see lots of kids running around in great Seuss-ish costumes. The festival had face painting, books for sale, a bake sale, a silent auction, and a near-continuous reading of Dr. Seuss stories, all read by local important people, none of whom I knew. The first story we made it for was read by Hannah Kearney, local resident and Olympic Gold Medalist! I recognized the name but couldn’t, until yesterday, pick her face from a crowd. She did an excellent job reading One Fish, Two Fish. :)

Eve always goes for the face painting, and always requests a cat face :)

Hannah Kearney reading One Fish, Two Fish by Dr. Seuss.

One of the many Dr. Seuss themed cakes in the silent auction. Eve begged me to buy her a cake. Like we need THAT in the house! When we left the auction was up to $150 for this one! (it was the most expensive there)

Back home Eve felt the urge to create. She told us yesterday that she wants to be an illustrator when she grows up.