FILE - In this May 31, 2002, file photo, children from a local elementary school, dressed as the character Cat in the Hat, perform songs next to a newly installed sculpture of Dr. Seuss characters, Thing 1 and Thing 2, during a memorial dedication in author Theodore Geisel's hometown of Springfield, Mass. Tourism and economic development officials in February 2017 re-branded the western Massachusetts region known as the "Pioneer Valley," which includes Springfield and generally covers the Massachusetts portion of the Connecticut River Valley, as "West Mass." (AP Photo/Nancy Palmieri, File)