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Co-handlers John Griffiths and Ben Hughes with Punxsutawney Phil, AKA: Seer of Seers, Prognosticator of Prognosticators, Weather Predictor Extraordinaire, National Treasure, and Most Photographed Pennsylvanian. Punxsutawney, PA, 2010.
Credit: Courtesy of The Punxsutawney Groundhog Club
In the past century new rituals have grown up around Ground Hog’s day, a celebration that began as good natured banter between the Punxsutawney Spirit and Pittsburgh Gazette in the early 1900s.