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Punxsutawney Phil represents the evolution of a story that is believed to have originated long before modern technology with the Romans and was passed along to the Germans. Pennsylvania’s earliest German settlers appear to have continued a similar tradition substituting a groundhog for a hedgehog and reestablishing the prognosticating ritual in Jefferson County, PA.

Phil’s evolution for the new decade finds him beckoning cyber visitors to witness his forecast along with the thousands packing Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney and millions around the globe catching the event on television and radio.

The Pennsylvania Tourism Office, under the state Department of Community and Economic Development, is dedicated to inspiring travel to the State of Independence. For more information, go to visitPA.com or call (800) VISIT PA.

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Pennsylvania Tourism Office: http://www.visitpa.com/index.aspx

A YouTube sensation: http://www.youtube.com/PAgroundhog

Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/visitPA

Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=groundhog&w=27320047%40N03

Tweeting: http://twitter.com/visitPA

Evolution of a story: http://www.visitpa.com/media-room/groundhog-day/download.aspx?id=2617

Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney: http://www.groundhog.org/

State of Independence: http://www.visitpa.com/facts-and-history/index.aspx

1/29/2010