MEET THE ORIGINAL ONE DOLLAR PHIL who stands outside a bank parking lot in downtown Punsutawney, Pa., home of Punxsutawney Phil, the prognosticating groundhog who announces the coming of spring every year on Feb. 2. Phil, who's Pennsylvania Lottery cousin Gus describes himself as the "second-most famous groundhog" in the Keystone State, has become a year-round industry in this charming Jefferson County borough about 80 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.
This ceramic plaster statue is one of 33 around town that has been has been individually adopted by local merchants (this one by the local bank, of course) to promote the groundhog's importance to Punxsutawney's identity. (more to come)
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