The town goes all out for the parade and town tree lighting. Get there early and bring your chairs. They have Punxsutawney Phil leading all the local organizations , businesses and Scout troups even fire trucks that was apart of the 9-11 recovery. Then Santa all ending at the town tree lighting. There's candy flying everywhere , hot chocolate stands as well as a McDonald's selling hot chocolate and Christmas pies. Was really a great time . glad to see such an all out event and parade. A great event and i would highly recommend it if you anywhere near Punxsutawney around this time. Stop in the people we're really friendly and all had the Christmas spirit. Thanks for putting on such an...
Read moreIn my opinion, it's kinda sad. This little groundhog, spends his time at the library alone for how long? I feel like if this whole town is kinda sorta riding on Phil's coattails to stay relevant as being this 'weather capital of the world'. Shouldnt this dude have like a farm dedicated to him? A place where Phil's and Phyllises can frolick around and at least enjoy being in captivity, or maybe develop an anamatronic Phil, call'm phil-4ever but that sounds like the beginning to a scary black mirror epsiode. Idk I'm just some idiot posting reviews on Google but.. there's gotta be...
Read moreI was very excited to see Phil and Phyllis up close. Even better that we could still them after the library had closed. As much as the town holds Phil up as a matttee of pride and identity (statues all over town), trying to find him was harder than I thought. I had the address from the website. But it never mentioned his burrow and there were no signs in the square. I would have liked to have read more about this Phil and his history. Basically I love back stories and this left me...
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