Sentences with phrase «gobbler knob»

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She was the one who had picked up Jerry when he stood in the cold, thumb extended, after high school basketball practice and given him a ride home to the hardscrabble area known as Gobbler's Knob, 15 miles south of McLeansboro.

Unless you're holed up on Gobbler's Knob with Punxsutawney Phil, you know that a new law will limit to $ 10,000 the amount you can deduct on your federal return for state and local taxes.

His predictions, though not always accurate, are cheered by hundreds of fans who flock to his den at Gobbler's Knob, a wooded hillock just outside the town that bears his name.

Every year since, people have congregated around the groundhog's burrow at Gobbler's Knob to see if the resident groundhog, whose name is Punxsutawney Phil, catches a glimpse of his shadow.

This was the 132nd time that Punxsutawney Phil emerged at Gobbler's Knob in the Pennsylvania Wilds to predict the weather for the next six weeks, although the history of predicting spring dates back to Candlemas, an early Christian holiday.

If you've ever watched the Groundhog Day activities at Gobbler's Knob on television, you've probably seen them.

Each year on Feb. 2, tens of thousands of people flood to Gobbler's Knob to see Phil and the announcement.

The position, currently held by Katie Donald, has to plan the events and Groundhog Day activities that happen as part of the official prognostication at Gobbler's Knob, but that's just the start.

Want to be a part of the festivities as a volunteer or learn more about Punxsutawney Phil and the legend that is Gobbler's Knob?

But because the Inner Circle handles those kinds of official duties, that is not the case at Gobbler's Knob.