which started as a groundhog hunting club. Freas is credited with starting the holiday on Feb. 2, 1886, after he wrote an article in the Punxsutawney Spirit that claimed the groundhog Punxsutawney ...
Pennsylvania Germans settled in the area, and in the late 1880s, they started celebrating the holiday by picnicking, hunting and eating groundhogs. Members of Punxsutawney Groundhog Club, organized in ...
The Punsutawney Groundhog Club explains how the first time “Weather Wags” recognized Groundhog Day was in 1886, although the first official trek to Gobbler’s Knob was the following year.
which started as a groundhog hunting club. Freas is credited with starting the holiday on Feb. 2, 1886, after he wrote an article in the Punxsutawney Spirit that claimed the groundhog Punxsutawney ...