Wondering when spring will arrive? Go wake up a bear and ask

But for the cruel winds of chance, Winnie-the-Pooh might have been best-known weather expert and prognosticator in North America, rather than an unreliable American rodent.
That, at least, is the inference one might draw from research done by Western University Canadian history professor Alan MacEachern.
MacEachern pored over Canadian newspapers from the late 1800s and determined that when they initially reported on what we now call Groundhog Day, in the waning years of the 19th century, th