The Milwaukee County Zoo's Nigerian dwarf goats — stand-ins for the groundhog the zoo hasn't procured yet since the death of Gordy two years ago — made their spring prediction this Groundhog Day.
For the second year in a row, there will be no groundhog headliner at the Milwaukee County Zoo's Groundhog Day ceremony. The zoo's former groundhog ambassador, Gordy, died two years ago ...
the Groundhog Day blizzard of 2011 saw nearly 20 inches of snow sweep the city. Sixteen of those inches fell in under 24 hours, marking one of the snowiest one-day periods in Milwaukee history.
OK. So it is hard to deny that Groundhog Day is kind of a fun and silly holiday, but NPR's Avery Keatley offers a perspective on why the holiday is unique and important to American culture.
PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. — The crowd started piling into Gobbler's Knob at 3 a.m. on Sunday, happy to wait more than four hours in freezing cold to see the celebrity groundhog Punxsutawney Phil emerge ...