INDEPENDENT PHOTO BY KEN FARVER | New visitors to Groundhog Days exclaim “It’s the same floor!” when they go to the Woodstock Moose Lodge for any of several events hosted there during the four-day festival. The room with the red-patterned linoleum floor that dates to 1952 is recognizable as the site of the bachelor auction from the movie “Groundhog Day.” Here, chili lovers attend the festival’s annual chili cook-off.
Movie house, Moose, bed-and-breakfast are film favorite locations
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Susan W. Murray wrote for The Independent, covering various beats, from 2005 to 2008, returning to the paper as a writer in 2018. A 26-year resident of Woodstock, she taught English, American history, and religion to junior high students at St. Mary School for nine years.
Susan W. Murray wrote for The Independent, covering various beats, from 2005 to 2008, returning to the paper as a writer in 2018. A 26-year resident of Woodstock, she taught English, American history, and religion to junior high students at St. Mary School for nine years.
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