[New-Poetry] Groundhog Day

[Bob Grumman]

Anny Ballardini wrote:
> Happy Birthday to Bob Grumman,
>
> and from the Writer's Almanac that reminds us all things:
>
> German immigrants in Pennsylvania found that there weren't a lot of 
> badgers in America, but there were a lot of groundhogs, so the holiday 
> evolved into *Groundhog Day*. The first reference to Groundhog Day is 
> from 1841, in the diary of a storekeeper in Morgantown, Pennsylvania. 
> He wrote: "Last Tuesday, the 2nd, was Candlemas day, the day on which, 
> according to the Germans, the Groundhog peeps out of his winter 
> quarters and if he sees his shadow he pops back for another six weeks' 
> nap, but if the day be cloudy he remains out, as the weather is to be 
> moderate."
Hey, Anny, what's really neat about that is that I was born exactly 100 
years later!  You see, you see!!!!

--Bob Grumhog
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