Well, today's the long-awaited day of the total solar eclipse! Are you ready?
I hadn't even thought about getting glasses to see it, since I get off work at 3:00 and figured I would be in my car driving home from work when 'zero hour' hits. But on Saturday, during my stop at the Lorain Public Library, an employee kindly fixed me with an official pair of LPL glasses. So I'm probably going to loiter in the parking lot of my place of employment for twenty minutes to be part of the hoopla.
After all, this might be one of those "Where were you?" moments in our life.
I've been asked a few times about the 1970 total eclipse. My memory of it is a little fuzzy (I was 11 at the time). I remember being on the side of the house with the little box I made, with a pinhole in it. How did I know how to make it? Maybe it was featured in "Cappy Dick."
Anyway, for those of you who weren't born yet in 1970, as well as those who wonder how the media covered it back then, here's the front page of the Lorain Journal of March 8, 1970. I like how the headline makes reference to 2024. It sure seems futuristic in that context!
