It’s Groundhog Day!
Laura Young
ECB Publishing, Inc.
The second of February has been celebrated as Groundhog Day at least since 1886, when a newspaper in Punxsutawney, Penn., reported on townsfolk getting a ceremonial winter weather prediction from a local groundhog named Phil. Every year afterwards, a group there has been making a dawn trek to Gobbler's Knob for the traditional forecast from the legendary Phil (or likely his distant relative).
Nowadays, of course, viewers can tune in to the ceremony via www.v