February 2nd, 2009
Happy Groundhog Day!
Groundhog Day, one of the more bizarre American holidays, is a major industry in the town of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. This is where the legendary Punxsutawney Phil makes his annual prediction on how much longer winter will last. Every year, ten to forty thousand people crowd the inappropriately named “Gobbler’s Knob” to see men in top hats yank a rodent from a tree stump and share its predictions with the crowd. This scene will be familiar to anyone who has seen the movie Groundhog Day. Although allegedly set in Punxsutawney, most of it was actually filmed in the quaint town of Woodstock, Illinois.
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