Punxsutawney Phil - an actual groundhog and proclaimed "weather predictor extraordinaire" - will be placed on a stage (tree stump) as a crowd waits to see if he will look at his own shadow or not.
In 1886, Groundhog Day was acknowledged for the first time in Punxsutawney by a local newspaper, Weathers Wags, according to the club. In 1887, the first official pilgrimage to see Phil on Gobbler’s ...