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Brought up in Eastern Pennsylvania, I was years ahead of y'all in knowing about Groundhog Day.

Now, it is a movie, an annual tongue in cheek celebration and, probably, a big commercial event where there is some money to be made out of a humble old fashioned custom.

The usual modern travesty made over from some nice old folklore.

There is nothing special about Punxsutawney other than the groundhog. They made it up and appropriated it.

Not many people know about groundhogs anyway.

They are grumbly, generally unfriendly cusses better left alone.

I understand that the 'hog did not cast nor see his shadow.

Groundhog Day: Punxsutawney Phil Did Not See His Shadow

Spring is just around the corner!

In Punxsutawney anyway.

Labels: history, holidays, Pennsylvania