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Groundhog Prognosticators

January 30th, 2012

[reposted for 2012 without alteration from 2011]

It’s Groundhog Day!  I know…it’s hard to contain your excitement.  It’s that day each year when a mammal is held up in front of a crowd of people.  If it’s a sunny day and the groundhog cared about such things, he could see his shadow and we would have more wintery weeks ahead.  If the sun was blocked, no shadow and thus spring would arrive soon.  A bit of a strange ritual.  But it actually has roots that go back a long way.

Groundhog Day began centuries ago as a variation on Candlemas, an ancient European holiday.  According to an old English song:

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Sunday Hours of Operation Changing Slightly

January 30th, 2012

Beginning Sunday, February 5th, 2012, Clark Planetarium will slightly modify its hours of operations. This change affects Sunday evenings only.

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Next “Gateway to the Stars” is February 11

January 30th, 2012

This month’s installment of “Gateway to the Stars” will take place on Saturday, February 11 instead of the normal first Saturday of the month.

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