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Slumbering Groundhog Lodge (Quarryville, Lancaster County) The Slumbering Groundhog Lodge in Quarryville, Lancaster County, is one of Pennsylvania’s oldest and most bizarre Groundhog Day You may know Punxsutawney Phil but the Susquehanna Valley is home to a notable weather-predicting groundhog of its own.Slumbering Groundhog Lodge of Quarryville observed Groundhog Day with its The roughly 240 members of the Slumbering Groundhog Lodge there report the winter forecast from Octoraro Orphie, or least via his well-preserved remains. Quarryville lodge board chair Charlie Hart said the organization has dinners and other social events throughout the year but is largely focused on Groundhog Day. Description: Since 1908, the Slumbering Groundhog Lodge of Quarryville, Pennsylvania, has been holding an annual Groundhog Day ceremony where a stuffed groundhog, provides the weather predictions. The groundhog seems to have been nameless until sometime in the mid 1970s, when it became known as Octoraro Orphie. Attendees of the Groundhog Day event Inside Ville & Rue, at 8 W. King St., in Lancaster city, watch as Elliott takes a look at the food on the “winter” side of his pen Friday, Feb. 2, 2024 The stuffed mascot of the Slumbering Groundhog Lodge in Quarryville, Lancaster County saw his shadow and predicted six more weeks of winter, snapping a streak of two consecutive early spring The event starts around 8 a.m. on White Rock Road in Kirkwood, south of Quarryville. After a two-year hiatus, the Slumbering Groundhog Lodge will initiate its "babies," by dunking them into the Quarryville lodge board chair Charlie Hart said the organization has dinners and other social events throughout the year but is largely focused on Groundhog Day. Hart credits Orphie as a far The roughly 240 members of the Slumbering Groundhog Lodge there report the winter forecast from Octoraro Orphie, or least via his well-preserved remains. Quarryville lodge board chair Charlie Hart said the organization has dinners and other social events throughout the year but is largely focused on Groundhog Day. What are Groundhog Day's origins? The early festivities in Punxsutawney were followed in 1907 by folks in Quarryville, a farming area in Lancaster County in Pennsylvania's southeastern corner About Orphie. Octoraro Orphie, from Quarryville Pennsylvania, is a taxidermied world-renowned weather prognosticator and “One True Groundhog.” Other so-called groundhogs draw more celebrity endorsements, but Orphie is not distracted by the worldly pursuits of fame and fortune (at least partially due to his being stuffed and mounted). 3 of 15 | . FILE - The groundhog saw his shadow, Feb. 2, 1954, as the sun peeked through an overcast sky at Washington Park Zoo in Milwaukee, Wis. The arrival of annual Groundhog Day celebrations Friday, Feb. 2, 2024, will draw thousands of people to see celebrity woodchuck Phil at Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney, Pa. — an event that exploded in popularity after the 1993 Bill Murray movie. Pat Henry, Orphie and Dan Race Jr., help perform part of the skit during the Groundhog Day festivities at the Slumbering Groundhog Lodge in Kirkwood on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. The three oldest Groundhog Lodges (Punxatawney, Quarryville, and York) all call PA home; one of the most beloved big-screen comedies, “Groundhog Day” (though largely-filmed in Illinois) is set in the Keystone State; plus, everywhere you turn – from billboards to TV commercials – there’s a spokes-groundhog named Gus proclaiming himself From the archives: News 8 visits the Slumbering Groundhog Lodge of Quarryville to see the festivities on Groundhog Day 1992.Subscribe to WGAL on YouTube now Groundhog Day is a holiday celebrated in the United States and Canada on February 2, In 1899, members of The Slumbering Groundhog Lodge of Quarryville, From the archives: News 8 visits the Slumbering Groundhog Lodge of Quarryville to see the festivities on Groundhog Day 1992. Manheim Township will host a Groundhog Day celebration at the Carriage House at Stauffer Mansion, at 1241 Lititz Pike, at 7 a.m. The Slumbering Groundhog Lodge of Quarryville will host its in Quarryville lodge board chair Charlie Hart said the organization has dinners and other social events throughout the year but is largely focused on Groundhog Day. Hart credits Orphie as a far
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