Groundhog Day is a German tradition. When Germans came to Pennsylvania they continued its tradition. The Groundhog is known as a hedgehog or a badger. Many people use groundhog instead of hedgehogs. This animal can predict the weather just by looking at its shadow. If the groundhog sees its shadow then there will be 6 more weeks of snow.
The original Groundhog day was celebrated on February 2, 1886. Groundhog Day is celebrated through out the united states of America and in many other places. The very first groundhog day was made when a group of spirited hunters who dubbed their self's. They made a club called "The Punxsutawney Groundhog club." A member of the club used additional to proclaim Phil. The punxsutawney was the only official weathering groundhog. Phil's fame began to spread through out ht newspaper.
Most people also call the groundhog a woodchuck. Their are many people that call a groundhog by many other names. Every year many people celebrate groundhog day. They celebrate that day because people would want to see if there's going to be 6 more weeks of snow or not. Groundhog day is not a federal holiday, and nobody gets of work.
Why do we honor the groundhog on groundhog day? We celebrate it because many animals can predict the arrival of spring, according to ancient belief. That is how a groundhog and many other animals can predict the arrival of spring time. In some places they call groundhog day candle mas day accrued mostly between winter and spring. their are many people that don't believe that a groundhog can predict the weather. Even if they don't believe in it we still carry on the tradition, even though its not a federal holiday.
Many scientist have been working whether a groundhog can predict the weather or not for many years. Phil the one who came up with the idea about the groundhog, was 39% right. at the time. He was mostly right about a groundhog predicting the weather. groundhog day is a holiday, but isn't a federal holiday. Even though groundhog day is popular in punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.
In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, was a big attraction, because of the original groundhog day. Many people go their to look at its history of hear about it.Like many people, club members, news reporters and many other kind of people go their. Every year on February the 2th, Phil and his predicting see if the groundhog can see or not see his shadow. If the groundhog sees his shadow then there will be six more weeks of winter. If the groundhog doesn't see its shadow, the n spring is on its way.
Most people celebrate early in the morning, mostly like a morning festivals. They celebrate till the groundhog mainly comes out of its burrow.
Well that's mainly all about groundhog day, and all about its history, where its tradition came from.
New Year's Resolution is mostly about when people decide on many things they are going to do for the year. For instance , students decide on making better grades, or try hard enough to get good grades. Some students who come from other schools will try to make good friends and make better grades. If the student wasn't doing any good or making bad friends they will eventually move and start all over, just by trying to make better friends. Not many new students move just because they where doing bad at their old schools, they mostly move because many parents looking for jobs have to move from place to place, or they just didn't feel good where they lived.
