By Emily Mayer Groundhog Day is a custom brought to the United States with the arrival of German immigrants, particularly the Pennsylvania Dutch of Pennsylvania. Deutsch is the German word for Germans ...
Groundhog Day was on Sunday, one of our more unique holidays where we get a seasonal weather forecast from a beloved rodent. The main one is Punxsutawney Phil in Pennsylvania, but Georgia also has ...
As a quick refresher, here are the two possible outcomes. At the Groundhog Day celebration in Gobbler's Knob, Pennsylvania, Punxsutawney Phil, "Seer of Seers, Sage of Sages, Prognosticator of ...
While much of the Groundhog Day attention falls to Pennsylvania's Punxsutawney Phil, groundhog predictions also happened right here in Massachusetts. At Mass Audubon’s Drumlin Farm Wildlife ...
Punxsutawney Phil emerged from his burrow on Gobbler’s Knob on Sunday to make his annual weather forecast during the 139th Groundhog Day. Phil saw his shadow, forecasting six more weeks of winter.
The Groundhog Day ritual — a remnant of German folklore that took root in western Pennsylvania more than a century ago — declares that if the groundhog in question emerges from his den and ...
The need for so many buses is why the local schools, where the sports mascot is the Chucks, close when Groundhog Day falls on a weekday. Keith Post, his wife and a friend have watched the ...
In an annual tradition, Punxsutawney Phil made that prediction when he saw his shadow during the annual Groundhog Day on Feb. 2 in central Pennsylvania. That means winter will end on March 16.
Groundhog Day is Feb. 2 every year. It's a tradition that derives from a superstition that if the weather is sunny and a groundhog emerges from its den to see its shadow, it will return to its ...
Punxsutawney Phil is back at it again celebrating Groundhog Day on Sunday, surrounded by onlookers in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. Will the household name forecast an early spring or six more weeks ...
Phil looked to the skies and then speaking in groundhog ease, directed the president to the proper scroll which reads. What *** way to start *** Sunday fun day. You always said you'd make it here ...
On Sunday, Feb. 2, a.k.a. Groundhog Day, crowds headed to Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pa., to find out what the famous groundhog would see when he emerged from his hole. And in this year's ...