A beloved winter holiday is coming up and while much of the day's attention will be on a certain rodent from Pennsylvania, a local groundhog will also be.
Liza Johnson can be found most days in her cozy home office in Lincolnshire writing letters by hand to people she might never have met before in hopes of delivering them comfort and making their lives a little better.
If this cold, gray weather has you wondering when spring will come, Woodstock will be celebrating Groundhog Day with Woodstock Willie s annual prognostication and a variety of related events Feb. 1-2.
"Groundhog Day" hit the big screen 30 years ago this year, a year after the iconic comedy was filmed in Woodstock. In keeping with the movie s plot, the city hopes this year s festival looks similar to previous ones.
Sure, Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell were the stars. But around these parts, everyone knows it was Punxsutawney s picturesque stand-in that stole the show.And, as townspeople here prepare once again to relive their early February appointment with a weather-predicting marmot, organizers of Woodstock Groundhog Days are pulling out all of the stops.