Michigan Quarterly Review, October 1st, 2005
Theodore Roethke's childhood home at 1805 Gratiot Avenue in Saginaw is filled with family furniture and possessions that local supporters have tracked down and returned. On the back porch, the day I visited, his father's galoshes stood next to a chair where you could imagine he'd just sat to take them off. At the Hoyt Library in Saginaw are boxes of Roethke memorabilia including a photograph of Ted and his sister, June, sitting on the ground in front of his parents and ranks of other nurserymen at a convention.
But for happy discovery, nothing equaled the contents of the folder brought to me ...
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