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The Groundhog Grinch

By Mary Ellen Pollock-Raneri for Hometown magazine Welcome Groundhog Day. Bring your cheer Cheer to all folks, far and near.

Groundhog Day is in our grasp So long as we have hands to grasp.

Punxsutawney will always be Just as long as we have we.

Welcome to Punxsy, while we stand Heart to heart and hand in hand. (inspired by How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss) ome on, Mary! It will be fun!” my friends Amy and K.D. were positively determined to drag me to Punxsutawney for Groundhog Day. “Last year, we had a blast! We went to the weather center and visited all these shops!

It was amazing! Man, there are all kinds of places to hang out!

You guys have to go.

We’re not taking ‘no’ for an answer.”

“Oh yay,” I thought.

“Just what I want to do. Go back to my hometown and celebrate a groundhog.”

I could have thought of a million things I would rather tackle – things like catching up on reruns of Judge Judy or The Doctor Phil Show. Maybe I could clean out my closet. Anything but drive two

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hours and walk around in the freezing wind and snow. Anything but see ice sculptures or wood carvings. Anything but try to find a parking spot near a snow bank on a crowded street. Heck! I spent my first 18 years in Punxsutawney. I didn’t need to sightsee on a frigid day in February just to pay homage to a rodent. Yes, I was a Groundhog Grinch. I was Bill Murray’s character in the famous movie about the woodchuck. All I wanted to do was sit in my warm home at the top of Mount Crumpet and sneer and ignore the whole festivity.

See, I never really thought much about Groundhog Day. Even though I was born in the Adrian Hospital and grew up in a little neighborhood just outside of town, the holiday was rather inconsequential to me. Yea, I liked going to the Groundhog Assembly when I was at the high school, and I relished getting the rest of the day off; however, I never joined in any of the festivities. I remember that there was always a Groundhog Day dance at the high school, an event in which I would never dream of participating.

Shy and quiet, I preferred a good book rather than participate in that type of social affair. I suppose that if I had to pick one thing I might want to attend, it would be the Groundhog Day breakfast because they probably served pancakes. My mom, on the other hand, figured that we had cereal in the house to eat in the morning. Why on earth would we pay for a breakfast?

Then too, my father, a Pennsylvania State Trooper, always worried about crowd control up at the old Gobbler’s Knob, a historic site that was only a stone’s throw from our home in Fairview. When I was a small child, my mother would trek up Elderberry Hill with me and some neighborhood kids until we reached the original, little burrow that sat in a small wooded area near the top of Woodland Avenue. Usually, the summertime pilgrimage took place just as the elderberries ripened on their bushes. Climbing the steep road on the way to the groundhog’s rustic home, we picked the tiny purple fruit alongside the road and swung our half-filled plastic buckets of berries as we hiked. I guess I felt that the groundhog was more of a quiet neighbor than a holiday celebrity; hence, I just never participated in the hoopla that took place in February.

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By Jennifer Skarbek Smith youth and adulthood, Brown was immediately for Hometown magazine drawn to the idea of raising and training dogs.

According to Brown, the pleasant demeanor of espite the common belief that canines her dogs, Reba and Dusty, both Golden Reare natural enemies of those who brave trievers, made her choose the temperate breed the elements day in and day out to deas  her  focus  when  she liver the mail, veteran started her project in 2005. postal  carrier  and  Punxsy Thus,  Brown  bred  Dusty, resident  Peggy  Brown  has who  delivered  a  litter  of always had a special place in puppies in December of that her  heart  for  man’s  best year, and chose to keep one friend. She loves to share her female puppy, Sara, to use passion for dogs with others as her training subject. in order to bring them happiWhen  Sara  reached  one ness and comfort. year of age, Brown enrolled Brown,  who  retired  from her in classes at the Clarion the Punxsutawney Post OfCanine  Obedience  Club. fice after a 25-year career as Located in Knox, the facila rural route mail carrier, was ity is a nonprofit organizaaware that she didn’t want to tion  that  offers  obedience spend  her  retirement  years Peggy Brown and Sadie, one of her training to dogs so that their just being idle. therapy dogs. Submitted photo. owners  can  be  educated “I was getting ready to reabout  and  responsible  for  their  pets.  Sara tire,� said Brown, “and I thought that I needed caught on fast to directions, prompting Brown a project.� to enter her into obedience shows in Knox, Because she has always been an animal lover Westmoreland County, New Castle, and Erie and has had a plethora of experience in caring – shows in which she could display her abilifor  the  pets  she  has  owned  throughout  her

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Sara was received by the Brown  commented, multitude of patients who “It  was  around  this were  thrilled  to  pet  her, time that the club told some of whom were reme about therapy dogs minded of their own pets and  I  thought  that  I that  were  waiting  for might be interested.� them at home. Although Therefore,  Brown the  majority  of  people provided her dog Sara whom  Sara  encounters with additional training are overjoyed to make her that earned her a Theracquaintance, Brown alapy Dog International ways keeps in mind and certificate,  or  TDI,  in respects the fact that some October 2007, as well individuals  have  a  real as a Canine Good Citifear of animals and prefer zen title. to  just  look  at,  but  not “Any  dog  can  be  a touch,  her  dog.  Brown therapy dog if trained has noticed similar reacright,�  Brown  added. tions  in  small  children, The training can be exsome  eager  to  befriend tensive  and  the  dog Sara and others a tad hesmust be tested for the itant. necessary  temperaSo that kids would feel ment and proper obedicomfortable around Sara ence skills. However, it Sadie, a certified therapy dog, makes herself or other dogs, Brown then is the inherently gentle comfortable as she visits with Punxsutawney began  doing  dog  safety nature  of  Golden  Re- Area Hospital patient Lindsay Reed. Submit- demonstrations  at  local trievers  that  makes ted photo. preschools  and  daycare them excellent therapy dogs. centers. It is important for children to know Brown said that the concept of therapy dogs how to approach an unfamiliar dog so that a is rather new to the public and therefore somerelationship can be established and no one betimes  confused  with  a  service  pet.  She  excomes a victim of a bite. Likewise, Brown also plained that a service animal is a dog that is educates  second  graders  from  around  the trained to assist a single person with a disabilcounty as part of the safety demonstrations at ity in daily living tasks; whereas, a therapy dog Jefferson County’s AG Days, an annual event provides comfort to people in hospitals, perheld at the Brookville Fairgrounds in conjuncsonal care or nursing homes, schools, and other - Continued on page 14

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Groundhog Grinch

carved around a parking meter, and we lumbered with our bags from our parking spot on the side of the Pantall.

Continued from page 2 My husband and my friends scurried into the Not wanting to be deemed a party pooper, I hotel, eager to escape the cold, but I remained decided to do the dreaded Groundhog Day outside a bit and studied the side entrance of road trip. We reserved a room at the Pantall the old building in the gray afternoon light. I Hotel for one night, packed our bags, and thought about Reba Hamilton’s little art stublew out of town on a frosty Saturday in Febdio where I took painting classes as a child. It ruary. was formerly located near there, across from Happy to be on any Barclay Square, adventure, my husalongside the stone band, Phil (no relation hotel. Hesitating for a to the groundhog), moment on the snowsteered the family covered sidewalk, I cruiser northward. He was flooded with dressed for the blusmemories of all the tery weather and days I looked out on looked like a crazed the park from my Elmer Fudd in his red paint-splattered easel. and black plaid shearFeeling a little nostalling sheepskin cap. As gic, I shook it off and I glanced in the rejoined my group in rearview mirror, my the Pantall; however, friends were posiwarm memories of tively ecstatic about my childhood art lesour expedition to sons stayed with me a Punxsutawney, Pennbit that day. I could sylvania. Munching still recall squeezing on a bag of Combos, the tubes of oil paint they giggled and on a flimsy, paper snacked. His mouth palette and fondly refilled with the cheesy membered my pretzel bites, K.D. teacher reaching over babbled about his plan my shoulder to corto buy a couple of Mary Ellen’s friend, Amy, shows off her home- rect or recolor my woodchuck souvenirs. made groundhog wear. Submitted photo. brush strokes.

Clad in the true spirit After checking in, of the holiday, Amy sported groundhog winmy husband and my buddies bustled about in ter-wear especially constructed for her by a the lobby of the place; they studied every colleague at her elementary school. School groundhog / Punxsutawney postcard on the teachers always have gobs of creativity and little wire racks and totally enjoyed the other this time was no exception. Her workplace souvenirs on display. Thrilled to be in the hub buddy made her a groundhog winter cap and of the little town, Amy, K.D., and Philip groundhog mittens, complete with buck teeth shared postcard treasures that they’d discovand little foot pads. I, on the other hand, reered and swapped ideas on how to spend the mained undecorated for the event and sat quiafternoon. etly in my faux leopard fur coat and leather We all agreed to get a bite to eat in the Coach gloves. It was going to be a long weekend Room, the nearby restaurant attached to the considering that the main groundhog event on hotel. The smell of sauerkraut, pork, and hot Gobbler’s Knob had taken place the day bedogs tempted us, and my companions practifore. Wondering what we could ever find to cally ran into the dining room, ready for a do for 24 hours in my little hometown, I good feast. On the other hand, I was greeted sighed. by a flood of memories as well as the aroma As we blew into town, I studied the streets of the buffet. The dining room of the Coach filled with bundled-up tourists in boots, House was actually the room in which I took wooly hats, and parkas. I knew it was going dance lessons as a youngster in the late ’50s to be a cold visit. Wishing I was in the sunny – even before I attended elementary school.

Bahamas sipping a drink with an umbrella, I Eyeing the front of the room, near the big tried to hide my gloom and directed the group window, I could practically see my teacher, to our hotel. Snow was piled up along the Mr. Wagner. His thick hair always hung in curbs of the streets; hard, frozen, white front of his eyes as he showed us how to tummounds barricaded the sidewalks from the ble, spin, or tap. Once an area where long, red street. Here and there, an icy pathway was - Continued on page 6

As early as 1889, Punxsutawney area residents were getting weather information from the U.S. Weather Bureau in Washington, D.C. Appropriate flags were flown to describe weather conditions. In 1900, the coded flags were flown from the top of the newly built East End School Building (later to be named the Mary W. Wilson School). The information was a benefit to farmers and the general public. (photo from Hometown files)

Throughout the centuries human beings have attempted to produce weather forecasts based on weather lore and personal observations.

As seen in this late-19th-century drawing, meteorological instruments had been refined. Information was collected from weather stations and studied. A forecast was telegraphed to weather bureaus and to town newspapers. Submitted photo.

It’s All About the Weather (Forecasting)

By S. Thomas Curry of Hometown magazine ritten records of life and activity in the Punxsutawney area offer evidence that people living here had a desire and a need for information about the weather and the changes that affected their life – on their farms, for their businesses and work, for their leisure moments, and for their need to travel.

At first, people became weather-wise from observation: reading the signs of

change seen in the sky, in animal life, and in the plants around them. There were few meteorologists, but folk nonetheless learned to expect a particular kind of weather at a particular time of year. Meteorological instruments would later be refined and important data calculated.

The U.S. Weather Bureau was established in the 1870s to gather information for weather forecasting. It was through the telegraph that important weather signals were sent to weather stations and to communities where weather changes might af-

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fect people’s decisions for work and leisure.

In August 1889, the weekly Punxsutawney News announced that “Punxsutawney is abreast of the times and her neighbors. The United States Weather Signals are displayed now.” The flag signals were displayed from a pole in Punxsutawney’s downtown area. On a regular schedule the News advertised that “We get the indications now shortly after they are sent out by the Weather Bureau.” As a weekly paper, the News conveniently displayed the signals in the office’s window.

A few stores offered free cards to customers to explain and interpret these signals.

On Wednesday, November 27, 1889, the newspaper announced the following: “The cold wave flag was ordered displayed Monday morning, and by Tuesday morn-

in 1900, weather information was telegraphed to punxsutawney weekly newspapers in the morning from the pittsburgh office of the u.s. weather bureau. appropriate weather signal flags were flown from a pole atop the east end school building (later to be named the Mary a. wilson school building). for the benefit of the public, the papers would periodically publish an explanation of the flag code: no. 1, white flag, indicates clear or fair weather. no. 2, blue flag, indicates rain or snow. no. 3, white and blue flag (parallel bars of white and blue), indicates local rain or snow. no. 4, black triangular flag, refers to temperature. when placed above no. 1, 2, or 3, it indicates fair weather (warmer), but when placed below, fair weather (colder). no. 5, white flag with a black square in the center, indicates a sudden and decided fall in temperature and is usually ordered at least 24 hours in advance of the cold wave. when no. 5 is displayed, no.

4 is always omitted.

ing there was a considerable drop in the temperature.”

Several years after the Mary A. Wilson school building was completed in 1890, in the East End section, weather flags were flown from a pole above the school’s tower. Information was supplied to Punxsutawney by telegraph by the government weather station in Pittsburgh.

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Groundhog Grinch Continued from page 4 dance mats sprawled on a wooden floor, now the room was filled with hungry visitors who dined at tables with white cloths. It’s funny. I started to kind of enjoy myself. I don’t think it was the excitement of Groundhog Day activities that attracted me, but rather the remembrances of my youth and the people who touched my life.

Following our meal, a stroll down Mahoning Street only served to rekindle more memories of my adolescence. Even as we tried on tall black top hats in a souvenir shop and laughed at ourselves, bought gaudy, groundhog necklaces, and perused recipe books, childhood memories reached out their hand to greet me. I reflected on all the times my father treated me to a sandwich or a doughnut in Ruth and Harry’s, and I recollected gazing at the shiny baubles in the window of Paul Beatty Jewelers. As we passed the building that housed the former five-and-ten-cent store, I recalled running into the place to buy the latest 45 record by the Beatles. I even remembered the counters of multi-colored peeps that were sold there around Easter.

Mom and Dad bought me a scrawny, bluetinted chick right there in Murphy’s when I was just a kid; I named it Yankee Doodle.

“Where did you guys hang out?” K.D. broke up my reverie as we crunched on the packeddown snow along Mahoning Street.

I really didn’t know what to say. My folks never “hung out” that much, except for frequenting a few local restaurants; plus, I had left Punxsy to go to college before I was 18.

I tried to remember a couple places that might be a good time for them.

“Let’s walk down this way,” I directed the tourists, and we made a left and headed down the street past the old post office.

Of course, that afternoon we hit all the hot spots in town for a few libations: Cookie’s Caboose, the Punxsy Hotel, and the Pantall’s

Coach Light Bar proved more than welcoming establishments for a few weary, thirsty travelers. I was actually having more fun than I thought I would, but a large part of my enjoyment came from memories of the places nearby. As we walked down South Findley Street, I remembered when my mom and dad used to take me for fish dinners in the Findley Hotel that sat neat the old A&P. Sometimes, on a hot summer day filled with cleaning the car and mowing the lawn, my father would stop in there for a short beer, and I would have a root beer. Then, too, how could I ever forget all of my childhood visits to the Jefferson Theatre, a movie house that was located on the same block, practically next to Cookie’s. I could almost see the tall, stern, gray-haired usher who carefully scrutinized tickets as we walked up the steep hall to the lobby.

That evening, as we drove through Elk Run en route to dinner, I glanced at my folks’ friends’ house (the Takash’s) that sat across from the old Speer Carbon plant. Remembering all the New Year’s Eves we spent with them, just talking, snacking, and listening to

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polka music on their stereo, I smiled and pictured Marie Takash with her red hair and big grin. I felt happy she had been part of my childhood.

Later, as we settled in for dinner at the Anchor Inn, not only was the fare delightful, but I was simply content to revisit a restaurant where I dined so many times with my folks.

I could still remember eating spaghetti there – my dad’s and my favorite meal. He always asked for a big spoon to twirl the pasta and, as a child, I always imitated him.

To top off the evening’s activities, some kind folks signed us in at the Eagles back in town.

It may have been because I remembered that my father had once belonged to that club, or perhaps because I remembered a friendly, familiar face when we got there. Whatever the reason, ALL of us had a great time with great people and great music. Even I – the Grinch who previously had a “Grinchly” attitude toward the whole experience – admitted that the visit had been very enjoyable.

Tired from all the activity and ready to turn in, we finally returned to our rooms at the Pantall about midnight. At that point, I was

glad that I’d visited my hometown for Groundhog Day. I loved the old-fashioned stone hotel and everything about the place. It was, well, just part of the whole experience. I didn’t care about the cold weather or about being a tourist anymore – I actually relished all the stuff we had done. Even more than visiting my hometown, I had strolled down Memory Lane and had stopped at so many long-forgotten establishments. Yes, the Sonny and Cher tune “I Got You, Babe” that Bill Murray awoke to every morning in the film Groundhog Day stopped playing in my head, and I felt grateful for the time I spent in Punxsutawney that special weekend.

Back at home, Sunday evening, I loaded some photos into my computer, and wrote a bit in my journal about our Groundhog Day adventure – the best one I’d ever had. I’m not sure exactly why. Maybe my buddies’ enthusiasm rubbed off on me a little. Or, maybe my hometown’s passion for the holiday touched my heart. Then too, maybe fond childhood memories served as gentle hosts during my visit and welcomed me back to Punxsutawney with open arms.

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Through the playful exaggerations and the colorful words of Clymer Freas in the early 1900s, Punxsutawney came into national prominence as “the Weather Capital of the World.” On the pages of the Punxsutawney Spirit, the young city editor created images about the Punxsutawney Weather Works where “made-to-order” weather was produced for the world by the Punxsutawney Groundhog each Groundhog Day. (postcard courtesy of the Punxsutawney Area Historical and Genealogical Society)

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Weather (Forecasting) Continued from page 5 in 1900, local residents were reminded that “People who will familiarize themselves with the flag display, and are within seeing distance, can read the forecast for the next twenty-four hours. The forecast will be the same as that which at present we get in the evening papers, but when read from the flag signals at the school house, will be about eight hours earlier.”

From a tradition of weather folklore of a “human kind” surrounding a hibernating animal called a groundhog and shared for years by many rural farmers – their forefathers among them – the developing community of Punxsutawney moved into an era of weather stations and a government weather bureau to inform folk of weather changes – thus feeding the always-present curiosity about weather, climate, and its effects on people.

Through this curiosity, Punxsutawney would produce a “groundhog business” and emerge as “The Weather Capital of the World!”

On Groundhog Day, February 2, the “eyes of the world” (as the old saying goes) are on Punxsutawney – a saying more true these days because of the advantage of modern technology providing cable and satellite television, computer streaming, and smart phones with digital images.

Before the modern “tech life” and the “instant news” that can electronically take the faithful “Groundhog Watchers” to Punxsutawney for the anticipated weather prognostication from the “Seer of Seers,” the printed word of newspapers kept the

focus on Punxsutawney – neither by photographs nor with powerful visual imagery, but with words.

In the early 1900s, when the Punxsutawney celebration became widely known, “the story” was reported with pride. The Punxsutawney Spirit was the vehicle to send the “weather prophet’s” message to the world, especially after the newspaper had expanded from a weekly to a daily newspaper patterned after those of the bigger cities. (Later, as technology continued to march forward, “word of Phil’s prediction” was transmitted to radio stations.)

The electric telegraph (think Greek: tele meaning “distant” and graph meaning “write”) was the principal means of transmitting the information beyond Punxsutawney to newspapers in cities and small towns.

People around the country began to learn about the Punxsutawney Weather Works and the midwinter observance of Groundhog Day. With the improvement of transportation by the opening of two major railroads to Punxsutawney in the late 19th century, more people could reach the town for the many developing activities.

The extension to the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railroad to Pittsburgh in 1898 provided more convenience for travel to parts south and west. (Prior to 1898, the north-south railroad line ended at Clayville, west of Punxsutawney.) The Pennsylvania Railroad connected Punxsutawney travelers, for business or pleasure, to points southeast and east toward Harrisburg.

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For the climax of the special summer 1909 Old Home Week celebration in Punxsutawney, Clymer Freas created a “weather parade” to present to the public the “57 varieties” of weather supposedly produced at the Weather Works for Groundhog Day, according to Freas’s descriptive imagination.

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Horse and buggy travel was improved by “horseless carriages” before 1910. On the undeveloped rural roads of the area, automobiles became popular for private travel, and drivers and their passengers were not restricted by train or trolley schedules.

February’s unpredictable weather would prevent many of the interested folk from attending in person the official “shadowcasting” from Gobbler’s Knob by the “only long distance weather prognosticator.” However, on an often sunny and warm day in late August each year, the organized “groundhog watchers” from among Punxsutawney men used the summer Groundhog Hunt and Feast to tell the story to many invited visitors, including prominent businessmen, dignitaries, and newspapermen – and weathermen from established weather stations of Pittsburgh and Harrisburg.

Among the celebrated visitors was Col. Frank Ridgeway, the government’s chief

meteorologist at the U.S. Weather Bureau’s Pittsburgh station. Ridgeway came to Pittsburgh in 1896 from the Harrisburg office. From his many visits to the summer feasts, a respectable “competition” developed between the folklore of weather and the science of weather. In addition, a strong bond grew with the skillful editors of the Punxsutawney Spirit.

For many years in the early 1900s, Clymer Freas’s fanciful interpretation of the local Groundhog Day event brought Punxsutawney its attention and national recognition. Freas was the Spirit’s young city editor who named the “groundhog watchers” the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club in 1899.

Freas’s effortless and playful imaginings about the Punxsutawney Groundhog’s weather “prognostications” from the “Weather Works” brought the town its national prominence as “The Weather Capital of the World.”

After Freas left Punxsutawney in 1910, the dexterous and smooth words of Spirit editor W.O. Smith continued the imagery - Continued on page 12

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Mine. Pratt was willing to work hard and was While the family lived at Anita, the Pratt’s motivated to improve his status. It was a time older daughters were married. Ida married when a large number of Scots were coming Samuel P. Lindsey, and the couple moved to to the Punxsutawney area. In 1885, Robert Sykesville where he worked in the mines and Strang, of Scotlater became a land, arrived at foreman at HelWalston with his vetia. Mary befamily which incame Mrs. T.M. cluded a comely Pettigrew and daughter, Marmoved to Revloc, garet, who became Indiana County, Pratt’s James where her husfound a wife. band was a mine James and Marforeman. At this garet Pratt began time, the artistic their married life in abilities of Walston. When the James’s son, Rochester and William W. Pratt, Pittsburg Coal and about 14 years Iron Company acold, received pubquired the Walston lic recognition for Mine and began his talents. At the developing a new County Teachers’ mine at Adrian, Institute held at James moved his Reynoldsville in family to the new December 1910, community. As an student artwork English-speaking was displayed miner James had and judged. In the an advantage over country schools miners who had to category, young conquer the lanWilliam Pratt, of guage barrier before they could Bill Pratt’s drawing depicts the groundhog’s prediction S p r u c e d a l e climb the ladder to as the top news story of the day. (from the Punx- School, received sutawney Spirit, Groundhog Day, February 2, 1946) the first award in success. drawing.

His In 1902, while teacher was Miss Teresa Stratiff. living at Adrian, Delancey Post Office, James Shortly thereafter, James Pratt moved his Pratt and 44 other men took the mine forefamily to Punxsutawney. William had graduman’s certificate examination. James passed ated from the eighth grade and found work at the test and secured a first-class certificate. the Walston mine. Living in Punxsutawney The certificate enabled James to apply for a gave William the opportunity to become insupervisory position. A pit-boss opening at volved in the social life of the town, which inthe High Florence mine gave him an opporcluded his joining the Iroquois, a young tunity with the John McLeavy Mining Commen’s social club. pany. McLeavy, a man who had begun his William recalled this time in his life in a career as a miner, was now the owner of his February 24, 1961, letter to Martha McGee own mining company and was doing quite of McGee’s Mills: “Can you imagine a lad well with his mine at High Florence. who had recently broken into Punxsutawney By 1907, the Pratt family was living at society, being forced to come down North Anita. James was developing his supervisory Findley Street every afternoon with coal dust skills – including training miners and building on his face? I had such lofty ideas even then, morale and spirit-de-corps – that are part of a and I traveled all the back alleys. I’d go home, manager’s responsibilities. In March 1908, he wash off the grime, then don white tie and was selected to serve on a committee of the tails and go to an Iroquois dance.”

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Continued from page 10 of the Groundhog Day activities to keep the “eyes of the world” on Punxsutawney amid the growing interest and challenges of many communities to obtain the limelight of media attention around Groundhog Day. In September 1906, the Spirit became a daily newspaper and became a stronger voice for the Groundhog Day tradition and took on all rivals in maintaining Punxsutawney’s uniqueness in weather predicting.

Freas’s imagination and colorful exaggerations were obvious in the written report about the 1907 Groundhog Day: “As we go to press, the lookouts on Groundhog Knob ... return with glowing accounts of the proceedings at the official weatherworks today ... a rift was riven in the overhanging clouds, and Bre’r Groundhog sallied forth casting a shadow which shot through a shimmering sheen and sent a shaft of effervescent and effulgent rays athwart the cities of Punxsutawney and Lindsay with a rebound against John Hoffman’s tower on the South Side which knocked his onion theory to smithereens.”

[Note: Lindsey, or Clayville, was consolidated into Punxsutawney in mid-1907.]

Clymer Freas reported that the weather was not only forecast from the Knob, but also was actually “manufactured” at the “official weather works” at Canoe Ridge, an elevation two miles from Punxsutawney.

While the men of early weather science were recording information with barographs, thermographs, and hygrographs sent into the upper atmosphere, at the Punxsutawney Weather Works Freas was reporting observations from “shadowscope stations” by “shadowgraphers” with a ”silhouetteoscope.” About the 1908 forecast he wrote: “The weather schedule committee members viewed the spectacle through the 300-inch shadowscope at the top of the weather pinnacle. The shadow made by Bre’r Groundhog’s physiognomy was inclosed in a deep purple penumbra.”

During the Old Home Week celebration of August 1909, Freas organized the major event of the week’s schedule of parades.

He designated Friday, August 27, as “Groundhog Day.” With Pennsylvania Gov. Edwin S. Stuart observing as a distinguished guest, thousands of visitors were presented many floats to graphically describe the “57 varieties” of weather produced at Punxsutawney Weather Works.

Leading the parade was an 8-by-12-foot float constructed over a delivery truck.

Ten feet tall with an oblong dome on the top, the work – an attention-grabber to all – was purportedly a replica of the “laboratory” that Freas claimed was on Canoe Ridge.

Freas dubbed his special weather parade the “Circumgyratory Pageant of the Astrologers, Horoscopists, Magicians, Soothsayers, Prophets and Meteorological Attaches of the Punxsutawney Weather Works.”

About the float the Spirit reported that “The upper structure or dome is made of transparent material, so that the spectators had a good view of Bre’r Groundhog in his laboratory.” Astronomical equipment included a six-foot telescope, a “Shilligraph instrument to record disturbances as far distant as Saturn,” a barometer, a thermometer, a chronometer, and a “tubincular orifice through which the flag that wigwags the signals for weather is projected and interpreted to the meteorologists” (August 28, 1909, edition of the Punxsutawney Spirit).

Years and years have gone by since those early celebrations and summer feasts and hunts. Many swills of that special elixir have been downed by Punxsutawney’s famous groundhog to guarantee longevity far into the 21st century.

The crowds on Groundhog Day at the Knob have become larger, and the event is a bigger media event than ever imagined.

And thousands more make a “virtual visit” through technology in order to join the faithful “groundhog watchers” who are able to attend in body and exuberant spirit for the chance to hear in person the word from the Punxsutawney Groundhog, or Bre’r Groundhog, or Punxsutawney Phil, as the media now tags the area’s favorite groundhog.

After all, it’s all about the weather, and what is ahead for the next six weeks. The application of new science and technology to produce modern computer-based weather forecasts continues to require human input and some uncertainty.

Human eyes are often confused.

Why not turn your eyes to Punxsutawney and its Weather Prognosticator of Prognosticators on the Knob? Let him look for his shadow with his centuries-old special powers. Let us trust his action on our behalf – especially those folk who exist in the “Groundhog Zone,” that special portion of the world where exists the believers of “forecasting” and having fun in mid-winter.

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For Brown, the visits to PAH have been extremely rewarding as well and have validated her initial reasons for getting involved in pet therapy. She is simply delighted to see people’s faces light up when her dogs greet them. “I enjoy sharing my dogs with other people,�

Brown  said.  “They  have  so  much  love  to share.�

A couple occasions at the hospital stand out in Brown’s mind as particularly memorable experiences. The first was the time when a female  cancer  patient,  who  barely  had  any energy to move, got out of bed and stooped down to hug one of the dogs. This act was proof that Brown and her canines were bringing joy to an otherwise painful period in someone’s life. Another instance was when a young woman invited Sadie onto her hospital bed, and the dog acted as if she didn’t want to leave when the visit was over. “They really had a bond,� Brown said of the patient and her dog.

Since she first started her project, Brown has extended her range of coverage to include facilities  outside  Punxsutawney,  including Bethany Place in Indiana. In order for the dogs to travel with ease, Brown mentioned that her husband, David, has built a special platform that fits into the backseat of their vehicle where Sara and Sadie can ride contentedly and look out at the surroundings. “They  go  everywhere  with  us,�  Brown added.

Not only has Brown brought happiness to countless individuals through her therapy dogs and volunteer work, she has exuded a contagious interest in dogs that has found its way into  the  lives  of  a  couple  of  her  personal friends,  Barbara  McCullough  and  Brenda Kromer, both of whom have started training their dogs in obedience and therapy. On top of that, Brown’s daughters, Valerie Couch and Kim Mekeal, have devoted much time and energy to dogs after witnessing the devotion of their  mother.  In  fact,  Couch  takes  her  dog, Oslo, to the Cathedral of Learning on Pitt’s main campus every Thursday night for therapy service, and Mekeal has worked for several  years  as  an  animal  behavior  specialist training service pets.

As Brown works with her dogs, she utilizes a reward system to get them to obey commands.

Although it is Sara and Sadie who get the treats when they heed their owner’s calls and directions, it is possibly Brown who gets the biggest reward from her hard work and dedication. “When I started my project,� Brown said, “I just wanted to see how far I could go.�

To observe Brown’s loving interaction with her dogs and to hear the incredible difference they have made in the lives of many, it is clear that she has indeed gone far; her project was a success. • • •

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John Adams Second President 1797-1801 State Represented: Massachussets Party Affiliation: Federalist Fact(s): His son, John Quincy, became president. He was the first Vice President.

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James Madison

Third President 1801-1809 State Represented: Virginia Party Affiliation: Democratic-Republican Fact(s): At age 33, he drafted the Declaration of Independence. He constructed his mountain top home, Monticello.

Fourth President 1809-1817 State Represented: Virginia Party Affiliation: Democratic-Republican Fact(s): louisiana and Indiana became states during his term. He helped form the Bill of Rights.

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Eighth President 1837-1841 Seventh President 1829-1837 State Represented: New York State Represented: Tennessee Party Affiliation: Democratic-Republican Party Affiliation: Democratic-Republican Fact(s): He gave us the word "OK" or "Okay" Fact(s): He was in the war of 1812. which was an abbreviation for the name of his He studied law.

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Tenth President 1841-1845 State Represented: Virginia Party Affiliation: Whig Fact(s): loved to play the violin.

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Eleventh President 1845-1849 State Represented: Tennessee Party Affiliation: Democrat Fact(s): He died from exhaustion and hard work soon after he left office.

Twelfth President 1849-1850 State Represented: louisiana Party Affiliation: Whig Fact(s): He served in the Mexican War. He died while President.

William Henry Harrison Ninth President 1841 State Represented: Ohio Party Affiliation: Whig Fact(s): He was the first president to die in office.

Millard Fillmore

Thirteenth President 1850-1853 State Represented: New York Party Affiliation: Whig Fact(s): He had eight brothers and sisters. His wife started the White House library collection.

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James A. Garfield Twentieth President 1881 State Represented: Ohio Party Affiliation: Republican Fact(s): Died in office.

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Fifteenth President 1857-1861 State Represented: Pennsylvania Party Affiliation: Democrat Fact(s): He was elected five times to the House of Representatives.

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Benjamin Harrison Twenty-Third President 1889-1893 State Represented: Indiana Party Affiliation: Republican Fact(s): He was the same height as James Madison. His grandfather was president.

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The three plays chosen to entertain audiences represent a variety of comedy styles including a chuckle-filled look at love, the slam-bang fun of classic farce, and a "blast from the past" about some “good ole folks” in the middle of nowhere in the deep South.

First up will be “Almost, Maine,” where people in a remote, mythical town in the middle of winter find themselves falling in and out of love in often unexpected and hilarious ways.

John Cariani's whimsical romantic comedy “aims for the heart by way of the funnybone.”

Kathy S. Dinsmore is directing the local production of the most frequently produced play in the United States in 2014; it proved to be a “real crowd-pleaser” with critics and audiences alike.

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weeks at Sawmill Theater in Cook Forest. Patrons are reminded, however, that PTAG season tickets are good only in Puxsutawney.

The season will conclude in the fall when another Guild stalwart, Terry A. Fye, returns as director with “a blast from the past.” In keeping with the group’s milestone anniversary, the October production will be “Faith County” by Mark Landon Smith. A favorite with local theater-goers when it was originally staged in 1996, the show takes us to a little town in the middle of nowhere in the deep South. Here, the beehive hairdo is still the rage, and Saturday night tractor pulls are the social events of the week. Set at the annual summer fair, “Faith County” bubbles over with lots of “Hee Haw” style humor and plenty of surprises.

With preparations underway for the first show, PTAG is now conducting its patrons' campaign. Those who wish to be part of the fun of the Guild's 40th Season by helping to underwrite the costs of high-quality, live stage performances in Punxsutawney can enroll as a patron, a sponsor, or a benefactor, according to the amount of their gifts and the number of tickets they wish to receive. Business owners can elect to buy advertising in the Guild’s programs at reasonable rates for great exposure year round. (See the ad with the enrollment form on page 12 of this issue.)

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Dr. Alley lives in State College, with his wife Cindy, and has two daughters. He will become the 12th inductee into the Hall of Fame joining other well-known individuals such as Dr. Joel Myers, the founder of AccuWeather; meteorologist Jeff Verszyla of KDKA-TV; and last year’s inductee, the late Tim Samaras of storm-chasing fame.

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A Coal Miner Continued from page 11 Brody’s Clothing Store, which had relocated from Anita to Punxsutawney. Later he worked for S.C. Goheen at his Men’s Furnishings Store, where he learned the importance of dressing well. William continued to spend his spare time drawing and writing. He joined the Central Y.M.C.A., and in April 1916, he won second place in the Camera Club’s exhibition of snow pictures. The judges for the contest were E.T. White, John W. Frampton, and Carl Fisher.

During his early 20s, William wrote screenplays for the new cinema industry and was able to sell two of them. He sold Only Cop in Town to the Edison Company and Her Slumbering Hero was purchased and produced as a silent movie by the Christie Film Company.

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This quatrain was written by Bill Pratt and was taken from his letter to Martha McGee, dated February 24, 1961. He stated this short verse would bring $40 from some of the best magazines.

at Fort Benning, Georgia, during World War I. After the war he returned to Punxsutawney.

James Pratt’s career took another step forward in September 1919. He became connected with a new coal operation – being opened by the Pratt Coal Company – about four miles east of Punxsutawney and one mile south of Winslow station on the Pennsylvania Railroad. James Pratt had joined H.G. Bowers, W.A. Bowers, I. Ray Bowers, Frank McCall, and Irwin Simpson to form the Pratt Coal Company and to open the mine. The new company issued a contract for 40 houses, which would become the new town of Pratt.

James Pratt was now an investor and a superintendent of the Pratt Mine.

William continued to hone his drawing and writing skills. As he told Martha McGee, “There is nothing I enjoy more than to invent something and put it on paper. I’m always at it.” He used rhyme to tell stories and wrote quatrains, four line poems in which he expressed his style of humor.

In 1929, the Wall Street crash had a deleterious effect on James Pratt. The Pratt Mine was one of the Punxsutawney area businesses that failed during the depression.

William Pratt moved to New York City where he first found work with the B. Altman Company and later in the public relations department of Abercrombie and Fitch, an upscale sporting goods store. He continued to write. He became a regular contributor to the Saturday Evening Post and other periodicals and was paid for his submissions. His sister Jessie left her work as a stenographer for the Freas Brothers to marry Samuel X. Jordan, owner of the Jordan Store, a landmark in Punxsutawney for many years. And, his younger brother, Edward, learned the surveyor’s trade and later became an engineer and road builder for the railroad.

In 1938, with Europe at war, the Punxsutawney Spirit reported that the groundhog cast the blackest shadow in his history. By 1942, the groundhog’s shadow had begun to dim as more countries fell under the control of the Third Reich. In 1943, the Punxsutawney groundhog failed to appear, and the tradition of his annual prediction was in danger of vanishing. The community, with the

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By their February chatter You would think it is a matter First and foremost in the minds of everyone.

I’ll admit its give me fame in distant places, And that Quarryville has tried to ape my style, But I’m wearied with the same old group of faces And the notes their owners annually compile I have often thought of luring Doc Lorenzo from his curing To complain about it stirring up my bile.

I’m afraid the world will think I’m one-track minded; That I live in a prognosticating trance, When the truth is I am anything but blinded To your antics and your uncle’s and your aunt’s.

I could talk on many topics That are hotter than the tropics, If my audience would give me half a chance.

From my hilltop I’ve observed the world in action And I’ve listened to the chitchat from below.

Thus I’ve figured to the very smallest fraction Many answers to the thing I shouldn’t know.

But I’ll pull myself together And say this about the weather: You should button up for six more weeks of snow.

– Bill Pratt This poem – one of the many groundhog poems by Bill Pratt that appeared in the Punxsutawney Spirit – was published for Groundhog Day, February 2, 1946.

Chamber of Commerce and the Punxsutawney Lions Club in the lead, joined together to revitalize and update Punxsutawney’s Groundhog Day celebration.

William Pratt, now signing his work as Bill Pratt, contributed to the new image of the groundhog by providing artwork and poetry for the Groundhog Day editions of the Spirit throughout the 1940s. Perhaps his bestknown Groundhog Day drawing appeared in the February 2, 1946, edition of the Spirit. It was titled “On Top of Today’s News” and clearly proclaimed the Punxsutawney groundhog’s prediction as the number-one story of the day. That edition also contained a poem – “Me and My Shadow,” written by Bill Pratt.

Throughout the 1940s, Bill Pratt’s rhymes were published daily as “Prattles” by W.O. Smith in the Spirit. Each Groundhog Day, the readers of Smith’s newspaper were treated to a new Pratt drawing and a poem. Pratt also promoted Punxsutawney by displaying a groundhog in a window at Abercrombie and Fitch’s flagship store in Manhattan for Groundhog Day. James and William Pratt – a miner and his son – not only worked in coal industry, but also contributed to the richness of Punxsutawney’s history.

(Editor’s Note: The resources used in the preparation of this article are available at the Punxsutawney Memorial Library, in the Mengle Memorial Library: Jefferson County Punxsutawney Spirit Collection – A Collection of POWER Library: Pennsylvania’s Electronic Library, and the Punxsutawney Area Historical and Genealogical Society This article has been prepared by PRIDE – Punxsutawney Revitalization: Investing, Developing, Enhancing. PRIDE is a nonprofit organization that brings together residents, business people, community leaders, and civic organizations in order to improve the business districts in Punxsutawney. PRIDE is working to develop a Coal Memorial for the Punxsutawney Area. Forms for ordering memorial tiles are available at the Punxsutawney Area Historical Society and online at punxsycoal.org. Comments on this article may be directed to PRIDE, P.O. Box 298, Punxsutawney, PA 15767.)

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tand-up comedian Seth Knorr draws his material from a variety of sources: current events, marriage and children, off-the-wall topics, and everyday life experiences. The wide array of material allows everyone to have a great time at his shows! Since childhood, he has enjoyed telling jokes to friends, family, and anyone else who would listen. More than a decade ago, Seth started performing for audiences.

He was a finalist at the 2014 Clean Comedy Challenge.

Seth will perform in the heated Celebration Tent in Barclay Square at 1 p.m. on Sunday, February 1.

Joe wos’s “once Upon a toon” shines a spotlight on creativity! This fun and interactive program blends original stories and live cartoon illustrations into an unforgettable and entertaining experience that children and adults of all ages will enjoy.

“Once Upon a Toon” combines the performing, literary, and visual arts to create a unique performance for all ages. Joe delights his audience with heartwarming and hilarious renditions of folk tales and fairy tales – always with a twist! Each turn of the

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tale and stroke of the pen produces a new drawing, and all drawings are given to the audience. Joe has been performing for more than 25 years nationwide.

Joe Wos will perform in the heated Celebration Tent in Barclay Square on the following days and times: Sunday, February 1 (noon, 4 p.m., and 4:30 p.m.) and Monday, February 2 (8 a.m. and 9:30 a.m.).

Master balloon artist Dennie Huber has been twisting balloons since he was 12 years old. Starting, as many do, by making balloon puppies and giraffes, Dennie has, over the years, built a reputation for his various balloon creations and his wacky balloon character hats with big 3D eyes, wings, feathers, and legs. His act includes entertainment for the entire family. Dennie has performed in Punxsutawney for many years during the town’s Groundhog Festival and Groundhog Day Celebration.

Dennie will perform in the heated Celebration Tent in Barclay Square on the following days and times: Sunday, February 1 (11:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.) and Monday, February 2 (8:30 a.m. and 1 p.m.).

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Hog Ball Tournament

double-elimination Hog Ball Tournament – think dodge ball – will be held at the Punxsy Community Center on Saturday, January 31. Five-person teams can compete in two age groups.

Team check-in for players ages 9 through 15 will begin at 11 a.m., and the tourney for this group will start at noon. Team check-in for players ages 16 and older will start at 2 p.m., and the tournament for this group will begin at 3 p.m.

The registration fee for the event is $25 per team. The wearing of team colors or

costumes is encouraged, and a “Most Creative Team Costume” award will be presented in each age group!

To pre-register for the Hog Ball Tournament, please contact the Groundhog Club in person at the Club’s headquarters, located at 200 W. Mahoning St., Punxsutawney, or send an e-mail to the Club’s director (director@ghogclub.com). Participants can also register at the community center on the day of the tournament.

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ow taking orders for corsages ($5), boutonnières ($5), and “I love PXY” (with a heart symbol for the word “love”) T-shirts ($10). Flowers and T-shirts will be delivered Friday morning, January 30 – the start of Groundhog Day weekend.

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sutawney Weather Discovery Center and Groundhog Club Scouting programs. Katie Laska and Jennifer Roberts give the proceeds to a different organization yearly.

Please place orders by calling (814) 5906868 or the Weather Discovery Center at (814) 938-1000.

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Groundhog Day Birthdays! cooper ritchey Cooper Ritchey of Timblin will turn 11 years old on Groundhog’s Day 2015. According to his mom, Becky Ritchey, Cooper loves football, school, hunting, and his two pets – his dog Reese and his cat Blizzard. Having been born on Phil’s special day sits well with Cooper, who thinks that he has the best birthday ever since he will never have to go to school on that day! daVyn andrew carulli Davyn Andrew Carulli has been a North Carolinian since his family moved to the Tar Heel State when he was four years old. (He moved to Virginia when he was three and lived there for a year.) Nonetheless; the young, but accomplished, baseball player has a special relationship with Punxsutawney – he was born there on Groundhog Day, February 2, 2002.

Even though he has lived away from Punxsutawney for most of his life, sharing his birthday with Phil’s special day has remained a unique experience for Davyn. To ensure that he retained a “Phil frame of mind,” Davyn’s grandmother, Karen Farcus, always sent him groundhog pencils, groundhog coloring books, and information about Groundhog Day, so he could share his special day – and Phil’s! – with his North Carolina classmates.

In addition to being an incredible baseball player – he has played every year since T-ball and has been an all-star the past two seasons – Davyn is a Steelers fan and loves football. And it goes without saying, almost, that Davyn, like most preteen boys, loves his Xbox and video games!

candy (reed) KlotZ “I was born on the 100th anniversary of Groundhog Day – thanks Mom and Dad! – so I feel like I have a pretty special connection with Phil’s big day,” said Candy (Reed) Klotz, a Punxsutawney native daughter who works as a pharmacist in Wellsboro.

Candy takes every opportunity to spread the word about her hometown’s most famous resident. “I always enjoy the questions and comments I get when people find out where I am from and when my birthday falls,” she said. “I love sharing my knowledge of Groundhog Day with new people that I meet.”

Candy, who was born on Groundhog Day 1987, enjoys making do-it-yourself projects and likes collecting groundhog items – of course! theodore “teddy” tucKer Theodore Tucker – everyone knows him as “Teddy” – will turn 100 years young on Groundhog Day 2015! Teddy was born on Phil’s special day in 1915 in the small town of Elmora, Pennsylvania. He is a veteran of World War II and participated in three invasions during the war.

After serving in the Army, Teddy worked in the coal mines for several years before being employed

by Penelec, the company from which he retired. For many years, he enjoyed beekeeping.

Teddy and his wife, Stephanie, have enjoyed 68 years of marriage. When asked whether he might offer any advice to those seeking a long life, Teddy said he feels that hard work, the type that kept him busy and active, is a big factor in living a long life.

Molly Mattis If it had been up to members of the medical staff present at her birth, Molly Mattis – born in Cochranton on Groundhog Day 1990 – might have been christened “Philamina” Mattis! “My mom has always told the story that when I was born, the nurses at the hospital jokingly asked her if my parents were going to name me Philamina,” Molly said. “No offense, but I’m pretty glad they named me Molly instead!”

“I have always loved being born on Groundhog Day,” she added. “During icebreakers, I was often asked to say something interesting about myself. My fun fact was always that I was born on Groundhog Day! “Ever since I was little, I’ve been obsessed with Groundhog Day,” Molly continued. “Growing up, I didn’t have cable, so I didn’t get the full coverage on PCN of the festivities at Gobbler’s Knob.”

The lack of cable television didn’t deter Molly, however. “I had a deal with my junior high and high school librarian that I would come in early on my birthday to the library,” she said, “and I would watch PCN, by myself, in the library before school started.”

Molly made her first pilgrimage to Gobbler’s Knob before she became a teenager. “My first trip to Punxsutawney for Groundhog Day was on my 12th birthday,” she remembered. “My dad wanted to take me that year because it was a Saturday and because the date was 02/02/02.”

Molly made her last trip to the Knob six years later – in 2008 on her 18th birthday. It was a memorable pilgrimage, to say the least! “My parents rented a 12-passenger van and borrowed my grandpa’s Mercury Mountaineer,” she recalled, “and I took 17 of my closest friends to the greatest winter party on the planet.

“I love being born on Groundhog Day,” Molly enthused. “I love how fun and original it is, and that it is has local ties. I love sharing the history of Groundhog Day with people and helping people appreciate the holiday and the anticipation of spring.” Spoken like a true zealot!

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your local and community-minded businesses! n Raymond March won the December 28 Hometown Steelers Football contest.

The score of the Steelers versus the Bengals game was 27-17, and Mr. March guessed the perfect total point score of 44.

He chose to redeem his gift certificate at the Punxsy Pizza Hut. Play to win the Super Bowl contest inside today’s Hometown magazine! n punxsutawney Hometown magazine’s holiday giveaway winners were pam Hankinson and Becky Hockenberry. Pam will redeem her gift certificate at County Market, and Becky will redeem

By the staff of Hometown magazine and the Chamber of Commerce rom the staff of Hometown magazine and the Chamber of Commerce and the Community Calendar at Punxsutawney.com, here is a list of events and happenings coming up in our area: n Groundhog Day 2015 is nearly here!

The day itself and the days leading up to Phil’s fateful prognostication are filled with a variety of activities and events. To maximize both your fun and your time, please refer to the special groundhog Day Supplement in this issue of Hometown magazine. Revel with gusto, but remember to be safe, to dress warmly, and to support

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He was born at DuBois Regional Medical Center, DuBois. His maternal grandmother is Marge Stewart of Latrobe, and his paternal grandparents are Don and Jan Bosak of Punxsutawney. Parents and grandparents are pleased with and proud of the family’s new addition.

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hers at Gimmicks Restaurant. Congratulations to both winners and best wishes for a happy and healthy 2015! n Feb. 1: weather channel Meteorologists Autograph Sessions, at the Punxsutawney Weather Discovery Center, 201 North Findley Street, Punxsutawney.

Times to be announced. n Feb. 2: groundhog Day! Lots of activities around town, leading up to the annual Proclamation at Gobbler’s Knob. See the guide inside this issue for a list of activities and map of town. n Feb. 2: groundhog Day Breakfast.

8:30-11 a.m. Pancakes and sausage. The public is welcome; no reservation needed.

Only $3. Mahoning Hills Social Center, 19298 Route 119 Highway North, next to Longview Elementary School, near Punxsutawney. (724) 286-3099 n Feb. 3: First tuesday community Meal, 5 to 7 p.m., Punxsy Presbyterian Church, free and open to the public. n Feb. 5: Senior Life with morning bingo, 10:45 a.m., Mahoning Hills Social Center. n Feb. 5: ticket deadline for Sweetheart Luncheon on Feb. 12, Mahoning Hills Social Center. n Feb. 6: winter Queen’s court, at Punxsy Area High School, during the evening basketball game. n Feb. 11 & 18: 2015 AARp tax Aide, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Mahoning Hills Social Center. Appointments are necessary for free tax preparation. Call (724) 286-3099. n Feb. 12: come & get All Shook Up! 1-2 p.m. Join us as Elvis impersonator Kelly Hylton puts on a show the King would be proud of. Giveaways and drawings that will melt your heart. two Lick Valley Social center, 450 Franklin Street, Clymer. To sign up for the show, please call (724) 254-9820. n Feb. 13: Blood Drive, noon to 5:30 p.m., American Red Cross, at IUP Punxsy Campus. n Feb. 13: community Meal, 5 to 6 p.m., First United Methodist Church, free and open to the public. n Feb. 14: Valentine’s Day! Treat your sweetheart to a gift or treat from one of Hometown’s advertisers! n Feb. 16: presidents’ Day. Some businesses may be closed in observance. n Feb. 17: Blood Drive, 12:30 to 6 p.m., American Red Cross, at SSCD Church. n Feb. 17: Shrove tuesday/Mardi gras. Also known as Fat Tuesday, the day before Lent begins. n Feb. 18: Ash wednesday. Begins the Lenten season before Easter. n Feb. 19 & 20: pAHS Dramatics club play, “An Evening of One Acts,” 7 p.m., PAHS auditorium. n punxsutawney Area community center activities include: Senior Strength, SilverSneakers, Pilates/Yoga, AM Men’s Basketball, Cycling, Virtual Golf, and Batting Cage. Register for 2015 Spring T-Ball and Coach Pitch ball. For information, call PACC at 938-1008 or stop at in the center at 220 N. Jefferson Street. n punxsutawney Area Memorial Library offers programs and services for adults and children. Stop by and see what’s happening at the library.

Activities and dates are subject to change.

We welcome your news! Please remember Hometown works a month ahead. Nonprofit organizations are welcome to send their events to: hometown@punxsutawneymagazine.com. For-profit events can be listed in Around Town, six lines for $25.

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elebrity chef Tony Gemignani will share his culinary philosophy, “Respect the Craft,” with Punxsutawney, stopping in town during the tour supporting his recently released book, The Pizza Bible. A book signing – complete with pizza samples and a wine pairing – will take place at the Fairman Center auditorium at 7 p.m.

Wednesday, February 11.

The Pizza Bible is the first comprehensive guide to making the world’s favorite styles of pizza from internationally renowned chef and

and techniques for creating starters, stretching your own homemade mozzarella; and making mouth-watering sausage from scratch – among so much more!.

The event will take place courtesy of IUP School of Culinary Arts, the Punxsutawney Chamber of Commerce, Shadow Vineyard and Winery, and Punxsy Pizza. Admission is $30, which includes a copy of The Pizza Bible, a sampling of featured recipes, wine pairing, and an open forum with Tony Gemignani. For more information, please contact Scott Anthony at (814) 591-1489.

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nICE, WARM QUILTS FOR VETERAnS Quilts were donated to the Veterans of Hillsdale Rehab & nursing Center from the American Legion Ladies Auxiliary in Glen Campbell. Pictured are (front) Mervin Winters, Ron Keith and Janet Deyarmin. (back) Shirley Lockard, Peggy Kovacs, Pat MacCullen and Bonnie Yeager. The material for the quilts was donated by Tim Manners. (submitted photo)

Celebrity pizza-maker Tony Gemignani smiles while making one of his famous pizzas. He will be stopping in Punxsutawney during the tour supporting his recently released book, The Pizza Bible. He will be at the Fairman Center auditorium at 7 p.m. Wednesday, February 11. (submitted photo)

11-time World Pizza Champion, Tony Gemignani, the chef of and owner of eight restaurants: Tony’s Pizza Napoletana, Capo’s, Tony’s Coal-Fired Pizza, and Slice House by Tony Gemignani at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Pizza Rock in Sacramento and Las Vegas, and Tony’s of North Beach, and Slice House by Tony Gemignani in Rohnert Park.

The U.S. Ambassador of Neapolitan Pizza to the city of Naples, he is also proprietor of the International School of Pizza in San Francisco, where he certifies chefs from around the world.

Pizza is one of the world’s most beloved foods, but most pizza books cover only one or two varieties of pie. Tony has spent his life tracking down and perfecting the great regional and international pizza styles and variations and is now revealing the recipes, secrets, and techniques behind his awardwinning pies and acclaimed restaurants.

Whether writing about Chicago deep-dish pizza or cracker-thin pizza or big, fluffy Sicilian pan pizza or classic Neapolitan pizza with authentic char blistering the edges, Tony is all about bringing pizza to the people in all its glorious forms – and teaching all how to turn out five-star, pizzeria-quality pizzas at home.

Covering classic regional favorites as well as renowned pizza sub-specialties like St. Louis and Detroit, the Pizza Bible is a pie master class from a world champion pizzaiolo. With sections on key ingredients and tools, types of flour, and so much more, the Pizza Bible is a complete primer for home cooks from beginner to expert. Featuring over 100 recipes and in-depth instruction on key topics such as making dough and sauce, stretching and shaping dough, baking your own pie, recipes

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(Editor’s Note: “From Our Past,� researched by S. Thomas Curry, features items of interest from past editions of Punxsutawney and area newspapers.)

January 31, 1894 — The patrons of the opera house on East Mahoning Street, on Friday and Saturday nights of this week to  see  James  Young,  tragedian,  are  assured by Mr. Fish that the gallery will be closed and there will be no noise nor confusion from that end of the house, as is very  often  the  case.  (Punxsutawney News) February 10, 1870 —  The  Sheasley well, on the Fullerton Parker property, is good for forty barrels, and is owned by Sheasley & Co. – East Brady Independent The above is one of the wells in which our  Punxsutawney  Oil  Company,  of Messrs.  Altman,  Campbell,  Ernst  and Dinsmore, is interested, and this news of their success will be gratifying. Letters recently received by some of the interested party here indicate that it is considerable above forty barrels. (Punxsutawney Plaindealer)

February 9, 1871 — wHoSE BoyS ARE tHEy? – They  stroll  along  sidewalks.  They  meet  on  the  street  corner.

They  are  no  respect  of  persons.  They snowball old people and little girls. They get angry and shock the ears of passersby with bad language.

If a man stops to talk to them and reason with them, they swear at him, or in some other  way  insult  him.  They  form  in crowds at concerts and all place of entertainment. The crowd is small but select – selected from the worst boys in the community. On Sunday they skate, play ball and  desecrate  the  day  generally.  They have no employment at home or no good books to read. Surely, they need looking after. (Punxsutawney Plaindealer) February 9, 1882 —  The  loss  to  the community occasioned by the open winter is a great deal more than people would suppose. At a small estimate there are two hundred  teams  within  a  radius  of  eight miles of Punxsutawney that would have been employed all winter had there been snow. Averaging the wages at $3.50 per day  it  would  amount  to  $700  a  day  or $42,000  for  two  months  steady  work.

This  is  only  one  item  of  loss.  Is  it  any wonder that this has been a “dull season.�

(Punxsutawney Spirit) February 12, 1902 — A party of about twenty persons from Punxsutawney drove out  to  Web  Sutters’s,  Covode,  Friday night,  to  have  a  sleigh  ride  and  eat  a chicken  and  waffle  supper.  The  roads being badly drifted they had to walk part of  the  way,  and  it  was  3  o’clock  in  the morning before they got home, but they all insisted that they had a good time, just the same. (Punxsutawney Spirit) • • •

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Pennsylvanians can now purchase their 2015 dog licenses from their county treasurers. State law requires that all dogs three months and older to be licensed by January 1 of each year. “If  you  own  a  dog,  you need to get him or her a license,�  said  Agriculture Secretary  George  Greig. “Buying  a  dog  license  is easy and affordable, and it gives  owners  peace  of mind knowing that if their dog gets lost, it’s his ticket home.�

The cost of the annual license is $8.50 – or $6.50 if the animal is spayed or neutered. Older adults and people  with  disabilities are eligible for discounts.

The dog license application  is  simple  and  requests  only  owner contact information and details about the dog  being  licensed  –  such  as  the  dog’s name, age, breed, and color.

Greig offered the following reasons for licensing a dog: 1. It’s the law. All dogs

three months and older must have a current license. 2. If your dog gets lost, a license is the best way to get him back. A license helps animal control personnel and shelters  identify  your  dog  and  get  him back home safely. 3. The cost of a license is less than the penalty for being caught without  one.  Owners  who fail  to  license  their  dogs could  face  a  fine  of  up  to $300  for  each  unlicensed dog. 4. License fees support animal  control.  The  annual fee you pay to license your dog helps keep shelters running and supports the work of  the  Bureau  of  Dog  Law Enforcement,  which  is  responsible  for  ensuring  the welfare  of  dogs,  regulating dangerous  dogs,  and  overseeing annual licensing and rabies vaccinations.

For  more  information,  including a list of county treasurers, please call the Bureau of Dog Law Enforcement Office at (717) 787-3062 or visit www.licenseyourdogPA.com. • • •

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here does one turn for compredures in the Heart Center of Penn Highhensive, 24-hour-a-day spelands DuBois. cialized cardiac care in the Kaushik earned his medical degree region? No need to travel farfrom the Topiwala National Medical ther than DuBois. The Heart Center has College, B.Y.L. Nair Hospital at the Unistate-of-the-art diagnostic equipment and versity of Bombay, India. Kaushik coma full range of inpatient and outpatient pleted multiple residencies and services, and it can perform life-saving, advanced cardiac procedures.

While the physical space that patients refer to as “The Heart Center” is located on the fifth floor of Penn Highlands DuBois West, the services that its patients use in connection with advanced cardiac, thoracic, and vascular care are in all four hospitals within the Penn Highlands Healthcare system – PH Brookville, PH Hadi Hakki, MD, PhD Raj Kaushik, MD, PhD Clearfield, PH Elk, and PH DuBois.

The advanced heart care at Penn Highinternships. He completed a surgical inlands begins with access to a number of ternship and residency at Yale University cardiologists and the staff and testing faSchool of Medicine, Bridgeport Hospital cilities in the cardiopulmonary departin Bridgeport, Connecticut, where he ment at the local hospital. Each facility was Chief Surgical Resident. has a long-standing tradition of providHe completed a fellowship in cardioing excellence in outpatient cardiac testthoracic surgery, as well as a residency ing and cardiac rehabilitation. in thoracic and cardiovascular surgery at Cardiologists from DuBois Regional Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in Cardiology Associates see patients at all Newark, New Jersey. He completed a four Penn Highlands hospitals, and when fellowship in EP-guided cardiac surgery a diagnostic or interventional catheteriat Baylor College of Medicine in Houszation is required, these cardiologists ton, Texas. perform life-saving procedures in the He completed a fellowship in valve surstate-of-the-art catheterization labs at the gery and cardiac surgical electrophysiolHeart Center in DuBois. More than ogy at the University of Western Ontario 2,000 procedures are performed each in London, Ontario, Canada. He is board year in these labs. certified in thoracic surgery by the If advanced cardiac surgical procedures American Board of Thoracic Surgery. are required, the Heart Center has two Hakki earned his medical degree from advanced surgical suites devoted to the Baghdad School of Medicine, Baghopen-heart surgery procedures. The cendad, Iraq, and completed multiple resiter performs more than 200 open-heart dencies and internships. He completed a procedures each year and is affiliated surgical residency at York Hospital in with Columbia HeartSource, an organiYork, Pennsylvania, where he was the zation established by physician leaderchief surgical resident. He also comship at Columbia University in 1997. pleted a residency in cardiothoracic surThe advanced open-heart surgery and gery at Hahnemann University and a other cardiac and thoracic procedures are fellowship in pediatric cardiothoracic performed by cardiovascular and thosurgery at St. Christopher’s Hospital, racic surgeons with Penn Highlands Carboth in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. diovascular and Thoracic Surgery.

He completed a fellowship in cardioRaj Kaushik, MD, FACS, FACC, is the thoracic surgery at Brook General HosChief of Cardiovascular Surgery at the pital in London, England. He is board Heart Center. He is joined by A. Hadi certified in thoracic surgery by the Hakki, MD, FRCS(C), as the surgical American Board of Thoracic Surgery. team performing open-heart surgery, With advanced cardiac, thoracic, and valve repair and replacement, aortic vascular services normally found only in aneurysm repair, carotid endarterectomy, large cities, the Heart Center is “leading and a large menu of additional cardiac, the way” for local heart patients who thoracic, and vascular services for the won’t have to travel long distances to residents of our region. find experts in cardiac care.

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Doug pointed out that the main benefit of participating in the competition had less to do with learning the mechanics of operating a vineyard, and more to do with learning the procedures for entering a competition. He added that Shadow Vineyard and Winery will participate again in the Farm Show competition and that it will likely take part in other competitions. “Competing is part of the satisfaction,” he said.

Shadow Vineyard and Winery opened a little more than a year ago. “We opened on Black Friday in 2013,” Doug said. Even though planning for the business venture began in 1998, it was a decade later when he and Joy were able to plant 1,200 grape vines.

According to Doug, vines take four to six years to mature, and he and Joy are now reaping the benefits of their now-mature vines. The vineyard is located on a farm that once belonged to Doug’s aunt and uncle, Jane and John Eberhart, who helped Doug lay out and cultivate a one-acre plot in 1998.

His aunt and uncle’s illnesses, and subsequent passing, and the settling of their estate consumed most of the decade between 1998 and 2008. “I think that they’d be pleased,” Doug said. “Uncle John always said, ‘You

In addition to Parsons, the Punxsutawney Community Health Center also offers family medicine services provided by Jay Elder, MD; Charles Lambiotte, MD; Joseph Kernich, MD; Cecilia Groman, PA-C; and Heather Park, PA-C. An on-site pharmacy and various social service agencies are also located in the facility.

Parsons is now accepting new patients at PHN. To schedule an appointment, please call Punxsutawney Community Health Center at (814) 938-3310. PHN gladly processes Medical Assistance, Medicare, and commercial insurances. Sliding fee billing is based on income and is available to those who qualify, regardless of insurance status. For more information, visit www.primary-health.net.

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don’t know what you’re getting into,’ and now I’d have to say that he was right!”

Doug and Joy chose to enter the vineyard business to have something to occupy their retirement years. “We call it ‘the hobby farm,’” Doug chuckled, adding that this is a misnomer if ever there were one. “It seemed like a nice idea, and we like the hobby farming side of it. It’s a fair weather operation, really.”

Shadow Vineyard and Winery offers 13 varieties of wine in three categories: white wines (Vidal, Riesling, Whistlepig Mist, Cayuga White), red wines (Noiret, Chambourcin, Catawba, Redtail Blush, Bell’s Sweet Blast, Concord), and fruit wines (Cranberry, Raspberry, Hibernation). The careful reader will note the winery’s allusions to local lore: “Shadow,” “Whistlepig” (another name for a groundhog), and “Hibernation.”

“We want to add a little something to the town,” Doug said, “and we try to build off that.”

Shadow Vineyard and Winery, located at 1681 Airport Road, Punxsutawney, is open year round at the following hours; 4-8 p.m.

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