#10 A Groundhog By Any Other Name"Wiarton Willie" Traditional Cache
#10 A Groundhog By Any Other Name"Wiarton Willie"
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Do NOT access this cache from the highway. Take exit 193. This is a series of 10 geocaches placed in honor of the groundhog. Each year groundhogs enjoy 15 minutes of fame before most people proceed to forget about them completely. So in honor of Groundhog Day here are some little-known facts about these annual celebrities.
They’re filling in for hedgehogs. The reported origins of Groundhog Day are various, but the concept is thought to be linked to the Germanic tradition of Candlemas Day. In Europe, however, the animal used was generally a hedgehog or a badger. How it wound up being the groundhog’s responsibility in the United States may have been a bit of a fluke. “When the Europeans came over here, they didn’t have any hedgehogs or badgers to lay the blame on, so I think the groundhog got it by being here and being a good size,” speculates the Smithsonian’s Thorington. “He became the one to prophesize whether winter would come or not.
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