28 julho 2017

How Groundhog Day Got Started

Groundhog Day wasn’t always about shadows.  At first “the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club,” involved large groups of visitors prowling the hillsides, hunting the groundhogs for dinner. The club was dreamed up by a local newspaper editor, one Clymer Freas. At the time the train from Pitsburgh to a nearby coal plant flashed through Punxsutawney. No one really came to visit little Punxsutawney, they just passed through. So locals wanted a way to make people stop. Groundhog hunts were already a thing, so Freas began using flashy descriptions for the groundhog hunts, hoping to draw larger crowds.

The tradition morphed into an over-the-top weather forecast soon enough, and in 1886, Punxsutawney Phil became the “Seer of Seers, Sage of Sages, Prognosticator of Prognosticators, and Weather Prophet Extraordinary.”

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