I remember the childhood limerick: “How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?” What is a woodchuck? I picture an animal much like a groundhog or a badger and surely they are in the same family as the beaver or the prairie dog. I don’t think we have woodchucks, badgers or groundhogs here in the South. Groundhog Day is here and I began to wonder how in the world did it become a tradition to predict the weather with the clear scientific exhibition on whether an animal sees its shadow or not. Groundhog Day has...

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