For one day, a fractured country will be united by sun, moon and history :
This is a great well written article capturing the pop culture and historical moment in time we are about to see on August 21.. the modern American landscape, divided in political hell now being divided in half and placed into darkness by a solar eclipse spanning the entire continents United States..
You’ll need special glasses to view. My fear is we may have more of a THEY LIVE experience with those glasses than expected..
From the POST article, my favorite portion:
Makanda, population about 600, now seems like “the center of the sun, and moon and Earth and everything,” he said.
This is the first coast-to-coast eclipse in the United States since 1918, the Smithsonian Institution said.
Millions of Americans are expected to converge on totality to observe, clog traffic and munch pancakes, barbecue and pizza. Amtrak is running an Eclipse Express from Chicago south to Carbondale, Ill.
Commemorative T-shirts and eclipse glasses by the thousands have been made.
Many schools will be closed, including at least one that has declared Aug. 21 “a snow day.”
Some locales are wary of the hordes of eclipsers, fearful that small communities and infrastructures will be overwhelmed by hungry people who also have to go to the bathroom.
Others see an opportunity to preach, make money or welcome visitors to forgotten waypoints of American history and landscape.
Good luck Makanda. And good viewing weather luck too.
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