By Emily Mayer Groundhog Day is a custom brought to the United States with the arrival of German immigrants, particularly the Pennsylvania Dutch of Pennsylvania. Deutsch is the German word for Germans ...

The first official Groundhog Day was celebrated in this country in 1887, but the tradition goes back many, many more years than that.

Every year, on Feb. 2, millions of Americans ignore their local weather forecasters — with all their radar, satellite imagery and scientific data — and instead turn to a ...

The Massachusetts state groundhog made its prediction along with Punxsutawney Phil and Chuckles, Connecticut's state ...

The following El Paso Times articles agree, the groundhog’s Feb. 2 predictions don’t pertain to El Paso weather.

Another Groundhog Day has come and gone. Punxsutawney Phil’s prediction of six more weeks of winter this year may not have ...

Hey, Punxsutawney Phil, we sure need some of your levity right now. It’s so cold, Republicans switched their slogan to “Make ...

Groundhog Day predictions about the coming of spring put the spotlight on Punxsutawney Phil every Feb. 2, but celebrating the ...

Every year on the second day of the second month, Feb. 2, groundhogs come out of their burrows and offer a fun prognostication: if they see their shadow, the legend says there will be six more ...

Historians today tell us that the ancient Celts arrived at the shores of Britain around 1,000 BC and lived there during the Iron Age, the Roman Age and the post Roman era. Living on an island with ...

Although some traditions have become more popularly celebrated in the U.S., many days have been designated their own strange ...