Rise and shine, campers. It’s Groundhog Day.
The more than 100-year-old tradition predicting the arrival of spring began on Feb. 2, 1887 in Punxsutawney, PA when a newspaper editor declared the town’s groundhog Phil as the country’s “only true weather-forecasting groundhog.”
While some of you may be waiting to hear if we’ll have six more weeks of winter, many of you might be too busy wondering what it would be like to be stuck in a time loop reliving the same day over again. We have Bill Murray’s 1993 movie of the same name to thank for that.
This concept got us thinking — if we could live any day in Asheville over again, what would it be?
For City Editor Brook, that day would be her 2014 October wedding atop Max Patch, which was followed by a decadent supper at Plant.
To reminisce on days we’d play on repeat, we asked you what local day you wouldn’t mind having again. Here’s what you said:
“Bele Chere 2012. That was the first one I could legally drink at after coming to it every year growing up. It felt like a coming of age moment.” – @octopus_stout
“The day I met my future husband at @foggymountainavl in 2017 💙” — @indigo_and_fern
“The day the Zombie Walk happened at the same time as Sarah Palin’s campaign stop at the Civic Center in 2008. That was a fun time.” — @arratikbehavior
“Snowpocalypse of December 9, 2018, when @davestruestories got snowed in in Asheville and played @the_orange_peel with @thewarrenhaynes and all sorts of special guests. ❄” — @maggie.rainwater
“Any night spent at Vincent’s Ear, the courtyard.” — @jeremymandle
“George Clinton and the P-Funk All Stars, April 1998 at the Civic Center.” — @sqrt_brian
“Smoke hockey games! That bench clearing brawl was something else 🔥” — @unimindproductions_
