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Audrey Cook Bines \u201992 and Joel Bines \u201992<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n- Location<\/strong>: <\/strong>Ennis, Texas<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Totality begins<\/strong>: 1:31 p.m. CST<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Duration of totality<\/strong>: 4:24<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
When in Texas, do as the Texans do. In that spirit, Audrey Cook Bines \u201992 and Joel Bines \u201992, who live in Dallas, are heading to Ennis, about 36 miles away, for an eclipse party featuring, of course, barbecue. \u201cIt\u2019s Texas!\u201d says Audrey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/04\/eclipse_map_10800-Texas.webp\")
Audrey Cook Bines \u201992 and Joel Bines \u201992, who live in Dallas, are heading to Ennis, about 36 miles away.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\u201cInnis is directly on the centerline, so it will experience a longer duration of totality than others,\u201d said Audrey, who was born and grew up in Dallas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The last total solar eclipse in Texas was in 1878, and after this year’s eclipse, there won’t be another until 2045. \u201cSo we figured this was truly a once-in-a-lifetime invite to say \u2018yes\u2019 to,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Audrey remembers the partial eclipse on Oct. 3, 1986. \u201cI was in elementary school, and I found it somewhat underwhelming.\u201d No wonder, since only 20 percent of the sun was covered by the moon that time around. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI don’t think I had the appreciation for the science and the uniqueness of these occasions at that time. Now, I\u2019m curious and looking forward to adding it to my experiences and memories.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nMichael Lieber \u201992<\/h5>\n\n\n\n\n- Location<\/strong>: Somewhere<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
After the 2017 eclipse, which Michael Lieber \u201992, who lives in Wilmette, Ill., and works in Chicago, was not able to experience in person, he skipped ahead in his calendar seven years and marked April 8, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But just where he\u2019ll be on Monday is still up in the air. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI’ve had a refundable flight to San Antonio for a year,\u201d he said on Tuesday. But the forecast there is iffy, so he pivoted to a \u201cperfect spot in Indiana.\u201d But with clouds possible there, too, he has since booked another refundable flight, to Boston. From there, he could make a bee-line to northern Maine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/04\/434686510_10228456146242665_3973351160484866023_n.webp\")
Michael Lieber ’92 posted this photo on Facebook, which hints at the direction he might head for ultimate eclipse viewing. (Michael Lieber)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nHe\u2019ll make his final call on Saturday. For now, he\u2019s booked a hotel room in Auburn. From there, he plans to grab some grub from Forage on Lisbon Street in the morning, pick up his Bates daughter, Sarah \u201926, and then drive north.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nSandra Shea \u201975<\/h5>\n\n\n\n\n- Location<\/strong>: Carbondale, Ill.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Totality begins<\/strong>: 1:59 p.m. CST<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Length of totality<\/strong>: 4:10<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Without ever leaving home, Sandra Shea \u201975 is in the path of a total eclipse for the second time in seven years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2017, when Carbondale and Shea experienced the eclipse, she noted that \u201ceverything about the eclipse is interesting. I\u2019m a nerd, I admit it.\u201d Retired from a faculty career at Southern Illinois University, she taught psychology and neuroscience at the School of Medicine, so \u201cscience is everywhere, every day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This time, Shea plans to watch it in a rural area about five miles across town. She’ll be in the yard of a friend who is a member of a number of astronomy groups. The gathering will be a barbecue-turned-viewing spot with an array of telescopes set up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hotels in the area have been booked for years, Shea said. Carbondale, which has a population of roughly 20,000, and the Southern Illinois University campus, which has another 12,000, will see an influx of an estimated 40,000 visitors this weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/04\/eclipse_map_10800-carbondale.webp\")
Without ever leaving home, Sandra Shea \u201975 is in the path of a total eclipse for the second time in seven years.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\u201cI think it\u2019s a lot of fun that it’s happening again. As the local media says, it\u2019s a once-in-a-lifetime \u2014 and here is the second one,\u201d Shea said laughing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As for the all-important weather forecast, she says “it’s odd for it to be sunny in early April. Right now, though, the forecast is holding.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What she recalls most from the 2017 eclipse was how it got so cold, so fast. \u201cIt\u2019s amazing how fast it cools off. It\u2019s a very unusual feeling. If you didn\u2019t know what was going on, you\u2019d be perplexed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This time around, totality is longer, more than 4 minutes. \u201cWe\u2019ll get to hear birds coming back to their nests, and the crickets come out. Birds apparently are quite sensitive to this. They don’t know why it\u2019s night suddenly.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014 by Deirdre Stires<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nJane Goodman \u201978<\/h5>\n\n\n\n\n- Location<\/strong>: <\/strong>Bloomington, Ind.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Totality begins<\/strong>: 3:06 EDT<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Duration of totality<\/strong>: 4:04<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Jane Goodman \u201978, a professor of anthropology at Indiana University, has an ideal post-eclipse event to go along with being in the path of totality in Bloomington. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Joined by her sister and brother-in-law who will be visiting from Cape Cod, she will watch a documentary about Star Trek<\/em>‘s William Shatner, William Shatner: You Can Call Me Bill, <\/em>at the Indiana University Cinema \u2014 in the presence of Commander Kirk himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/04\/IU-prepares-for-the-eclipse.webp\")
Jane Goodman ’78 sent this photograph that conveys the scale of preparations for the eclipse at the University of Indiana, where Goodman is a professor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\u201cWe’re also on a list to potentially meet Shatner in person. My brother-in-law is a big Star Trek<\/em> fan, so this will be fun,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIndiana University is a huge school with more than 45,000 students, and in such a packed place, there\u2019s lots of pre-eclipse talk about the crowds that will accompany Monday\u2019s 4-minute totality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI’d say that the vibe in Bloomington is mixed,\u201d said Goodman. \u201cA mix of anticipation and anxiety about what it will be like to have what’s being talked about as the equivalent of five football games happening in town simultaneously.\u201c (Indiana football games can draw more than 50,000 fans to Memorial Stadium.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSome people just want to hunker down and stay away from the impending crowds. There’s talk of an impending traffic nightmare. Pictures circulate on social media of the nightmarish traffic leaving Kentucky after the 2017 eclipse there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Like so many others in the path of totality, Goodman is \u201ctrying not to obsessively check the weather for that day.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nCaty Green ’11<\/h5>\n\n\n\n\n- Location<\/strong>: Indianapolis, Ind.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Totality begins<\/strong>: 3:06 EDT<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Duration of totality<\/strong>: 3:47<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
As a journalist who grew up in Indianapolis, Caty Green ’11 has a sense about events like this. “There’s a good portion of the population that can’t fathom the number of people that’ll be flooding in along the path of totality,” she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, she will take the day off from work and “plans to enjoy the eclipse with my dogs in the backyard. I considered meeting up with my family, but traffic around Indianapolis is expected to be a nightmare, so staying put seemed like a good plan.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Green’s current work is in audience development as newsletter editor at Civic News Company, the parent organization for Chalkbeat and Votebeat, two nonprofit newsrooms covering public education and election administration, respectively. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
During the 2017 eclipse, when she was with The Atlantic,<\/em> Green road-tripped from D.C. with a colleague to view it. After weather-related detours, “we ended up at a Tennessee state park in a field with I’d guess a few hundred people.”<\/p>\n\n\n\nShe says she’ll “never forget the shift in the natural soundscape around us as this artificial night took over. We both wrote about it for The Atlantic, though my angle was far less serious than a science writer’s: ‘The Procrastinator’s Guide to Cosmic Marvel<\/a>.'” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nNoah Petro \u201901<\/h5>\n\n\n\n\n- Location: <\/strong>Cleveland, Ohio<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Totality begins<\/strong>: 3:14 p.m. EDT<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Duration of totality<\/strong>: 3:49<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
In 2017, when the eclipse began its totality in Oregon, NASA scientist and baseball fan Noah Petro \u201901 was representing the space agency at a minor league baseball game that had the first eclipse delay in professional baseball history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This time around, he and his family (wife Jen Giblin \u201801 and their three children) will be in Cleveland helping to represent NASA at the Glenn Research Center, which is hosting a weekend-long event. (NASA has a full set of eclipse resources<\/a>, including maps and visualizations used in this story<\/a>.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/04\/eclipse_map_10800-cleveland.webp\")
NASA scientist Noah Petro ’01 and his family will be in Cleveland helping to represent NASA and watching the eclipse with a classmate.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nDuring the eclipse itself, \u201cour plan is to watch the eclipse with classmate Erin Mullin Shank \u201801 and her sons. We\u2019ll try to find a spot to watch with them away from the big crowds expected in downtown Cleveland, which is also hosting the Women\u2019s NCAA Tournament this weekend!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The moon is literally Petro\u2019s job. He\u2019s the project scientist for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter<\/a>, currently circling the Moon, and his next gig is as the project scientist for Artemis III, humanity\u2019s first visit to the Moon in more than half a century.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cI\u2019m thrilled that this object that I study and care so passionately about has its moment in the sun, as it were!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From a professional perspective, Petro is interested in the role the Moon plays in causing the eclipse, \u201cand how the shape of the Moon defines the path of totality, which is not a sphere, but is more irregularly shaped due to the shape of the Moon.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This time around, the path of totality is better known, thanks to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has produced images with high-resolution topography. \u201cWe can predict where the eclipse will fall on the Earth with great accuracy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And personally, Petro is excited by the eclipse \u201cas a sensory and cultural event. Not only do you see an amazing site, but you also feel the temperature drop, you see shadows change, and you hear animals do their nighttime routine. Being in the path of totality is an immersive experience!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nKelly Andrew ’96<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Location<\/strong>: Chazy, N.Y.
Totality begins<\/strong>: 3:26 p.m. EDT
Duration of totality<\/strong>: 3:36<\/p>\n\n\n\nIn Chazy, N.Y., lots of traffic warning signs are everywhere, says Kelly Andrew ’96. “Which makes me chuckle when we don’t even have a streetlight.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Andrew is the grower house manager for Giroux Poultry in Chazy, a fourth-generation family farm, a few miles north of Plattsburgh. “My glasses are purchased, and I have my spot on the farm picked out, on a hill that leads to open fields so there shouldn’t be any obstruction.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
After being buffeted by a recent winter storm, grocery shelves are getting bare. “We aren’t sure if our grocery shelves are empty due to the storm, spring break, or people just shopping early to avoid crowds this weekend.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
She will be working when totality arrives, and like others who work in agriculture or with animals (read on!), she will also keep her attention on the birds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We expect some of our birds to exhibit normal night time behaviors by quieting down and looking for and heading to their roosting spots. Once the eclipse has passed, we assume the birds will go back to their normal daytime behaviors. We will certainly be assuring safety and well-being.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nHannah Sessions \u201999 and Greg Bernhardt \u201999<\/h5>\n\n\n\n\n- Location<\/strong>: Leicester, Vt.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Totality begins<\/strong>: 3:27 EDT (in nearby Middlebury)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Duration of totality<\/strong>: 0:45 (in Middlebury)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Hannah Sessions \u201999 and Greg Bernhardt \u201999 operate an AirBnB on their goat dairy and cheese-making farm, and last summer someone booked the weekend of April 8, 2024. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThat\u2019s odd,\u201d Sessions recalls thinking. \u201cBooking a random weekend in April that far in advance?” In Vermont, early April is a slow time \u2014 skiing is mostly over, it\u2019s mud season, and warm-weather activities aren\u2019t possible yet. \u201cWell, the joke was on us! Those folks were smart \u2014 there is no room available anywhere in Vermont now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"Project:](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2022\/10\/220929_Biology_Cheesemaking_pgj_1171-900x600.webp\")
In 2022, Greg Bernhardt \u201999 and Hannah Sessions \u201999, founders of Blue Ledge Farm, spoke about their cheese-making work to students in the course \u201cLiving in a Microbial World,\u201d taught by Lori Banks, assistant professor of biology. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nVermont is bracing for crowds that some say might rival the throngs that crowded into the state for Phish\u2019s farewell concert in 2004 and brought traffic on Interstate 91 to a halt. \u201cThey expect north of 200,000 visitors to the northern part of the state \u2014 the entire population of Vermont is around 600,000, so that’s quite a jump,\u201d said Sessions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Their farming operation, Blue Ledge Farm, is in Salisbury, just outside totality, so the couple plans to drive the eight miles to nearby Middlebury to experience a few seconds of darkness, then scoot back home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere has been concern about how animals will react to this event,\u201d she explained. \u201cAs farmers, our first concern is with our animals, so our plan is to not travel more than the 10 minutes it takes to get into the path of totality. No crazy eclipse party for us until we know all is well with the goats!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In addition to operating Blue Ledge Farm, Sessions and Bernhardt are painters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
From her perspective as an artist, Sessions is enchanted knowing that the stars will come out as the sun goes away. \u201cIt’s a reminder that the stars are always there. That’s how I see art: it’s purpose is to show us the beauty of simple moments, and remind us that beauty is always there, it’s just hidden sometimes \u2014 like the stars.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Blue Ledge makes a seasonal cheese called \u201cLa Luna.\u201d Of course, it\u2019s sold out, but a local co-op food store saved one wheel, which will be sold on Monday only. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSo you see, it is total eclipse mania around here! And we\u2019re crossing our fingers for a clear day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Friedrich Buschmann ’71 and Margaret Kendall Buschmann ’72<\/h5>\n\n\n\n\n- Location<\/strong>: Harmony, Maine, just southeast of totality<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019m tempted to go somewhere and see the whole ring of fire thing,\u201d says Margaret Buschmann \u201972, who lives in Harmony. \u201cWe\u2019re going to be so close.\u201d She lives right in \u201cthe middle of nowhere\u201d with her husband, Fritz Buschmann \u201971, whose father was a German professor at Bates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She says Harmony, north of Skowhegan, is projected to see an eclipse of 99.82 percent, just a smidge away from totality. Two things are stopping her though. First are the anticipated crowds. \u201cThey\u2019re saying they\u2019ll have 40,000 people! The traffic will be atrocious.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The second are her feathered friends. \u201cI want to see how the birds react.\u201d During eclipses, animal responses are legendarily notable \u2014 but Buschmann isn\u2019t talking about the cardinals and chickadees at a birdfeeder. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The couple run Siesta Sanctuary, home of 38 (currently, as the numbers change all the time) parrots, macaws, cockatoos, and the like, ranging from age 11 to at least 42. They\u2019re both animal lovers, and Margaret has thought parrots are \u201cthe coolest thing on the planet\u201d since her parents took her to Busch Gardens in 1956 and she saw her first parrots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-05-at-11.42.32-AM-copy.webp\")
Fritz Buschmann \u201971 poses with one of the retirees at Siesta Sanctuary, home of three dozen parrots, macaws, cockatoos, and the like. (PHD Consulting)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nIn Harmony, they\u2019ve got a flight room and \u201ccages stacked on cages\u201d providing temporary homes for birds whose owners have died or gone into assisted living, or who just get in over their heads with what they think is going to be a fine pet bird and need to surrender them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The couple started their bird journey as empty nesters in Harmony, with plans to raise some baby parrots, but the operation steadily grew into a full-blown sanctuary. These birds, with their intellectual capabilities akin to a 5-year-old human, are not for everyone, she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis is not like having pets,\u201d Buschmann said. \u201cThis is a lifestyle. It\u2019s like taking in a wild cat or a kangaroo. They live by their instincts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of those instincts is when it\u2019s time for bedtime. They require 12 hours of sleep, and usually by 7 p.m. some of the birds announce \u2014 very clearly \u2014 that it\u2019s time for lights out, like the African gray she\u2019s currently babysitting, who squawks, \u201cBedtime!\u201d That\u2019s when the couple typically puts covers on the cages and retreat upstairs to do things like watch television. \u201cWhich we have to do upstairs. The birds figure if someone is talking then they should talk louder.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Will the eclipse bring requests for early beddy-byes? That\u2019s what she\u2019s so curious to see. The couple won\u2019t put covers over the bird\u2019s cages. And they\u2019ll probably run in and out of the house during the course of the moon\u2019s movement over the sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI am going to stay right here and see what I see,\u201d Margaret says. \u201cAnd see what the birds do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014 by Mary Pols<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nEric Stirling \u201997<\/h5>\n\n\n\n\n- Location<\/strong>: Township A, Range 12 <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Totality begins<\/strong>: 3:30 p.m. EDT<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Duration of totality<\/strong>: 3:03<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Eric Stirling \u201997 lives with his wife, Mildred, and young children, Avis and Oscar, so deep in the North Maine Woods that GPS doesn\u2019t work, and instead of a warm and fuzzy name for his community, there\u2019s a grid location: Township A, Range 12. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The beauty and peacefulness of their family business, West Branch Pond Camps, is renowned, and he\u2019s looking forward to catching the eclipse there with friends and family. \u201cWe decided not to reopen for lodging during the eclipse due to the logistical difficulties of having customers staying here during the height of our mud season,\u201d Stirling says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"Eric](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/08\/190809_WestBranch_Pond_9660.jpg\")
Eric Stirling ’97, proprietor of West Branch Pond Camps, poses for a portrait during a tour on August 9, 2019. He and his children will be the second and third generations of his family to watch an eclipse from the camps, which have been in his family for generations. (Theophil Syslo\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nEarlier this week, he pointed out that April 8 represents an uncertain time of the year, weather wise, then updated us right before he headed out Thursday to plow five miles of road \u2014 for the second time that day \u2014 during the early spring Nor\u2019easter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been amazed by just how many visitors businesses and local authorities are expecting during the eclipse,\u201d he says. \u201cI had no idea that it could generate so much interest.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Their plan for Monday is to boil sap from their trees, a ritual spring activity, while watching the eclipse. He\u2019ll be using his digital camera to capture images of the woods and open areas during the eclipse. \u201cI\u2019m most excited to see the colors and shadows that are so unique to a total eclipse.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
West Branch Pond Camps has been in the Sterling family for six generations. This year\u2019s eclipse marks the third generation (at least) to see an eclipse on the family land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMy mother was here at the camps as a teenager on July 20, 1963, when there was a total eclipse. She remembers my grandfather borrowing an old army truck from someone and taking the whole camp up onto White Cap Mountain to watch the eclipse from a logging road. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMy children love all things astronomy and are hoping to see stars when the sun is totally eclipsed. They\u2019ve grown up here in the woods under a true dark sky all of their lives. I\u2019m sure that whatever they see and experience during this eclipse will stay with them for the rest of their lives, like it has for my mother.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014 by Mary Pols<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nIan Shearer \u201991<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Location<\/strong>: Millinocket, Maine<\/p>\n\n\n\nTotality begins<\/strong>: 3:31 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n\n\n\nDuration of totality<\/strong>: 2:27<\/p>\n\n\n\nAs a volunteer chaplain for the local police force in Millinocket, about 70 miles north of Bangor, Ian Shearer \u201991 once used his Bates cross country experience to chase a burglar until the suspect stopped from exhaustion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As the eclipse heads into northern Maine, Shearer, who is the senior pastor at Faith Baptist Church in Millinocket, doesn’t have to chase totality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He says that his plan on Monday \u201cis just to go outside and watch the eclipse in an open field near our house with my family,\u201d his wife, Marcie, and five children. <\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2024\/04\/eclipse_map_10800-maine.webp\")
Ian Shearer ’91 says that his plan on Monday \u201cis just to go outside and watch the eclipse in an open field near our house with my family,\u201d his wife, Marcie, and five children. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBeing far from the maddening crowds means the Shearer hasn\u2019t been swept up in all things eclipse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI honestly have not given a lot of thought to the eclipse other than a couple articles in the newspaper.\u201d And that includes his congregation. \u201cNo one has asked about the eclipse.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He knows the event will draw crowds to his town, which has worked to revitalize its downtown following the loss of its paper-making industry in the 2000s. \u201cThe thing that has surprised me is how big a deal this is for some people. MIllinocket is a town of about 3,500. They are telling us to expect 10,000 to 40,000 people in town on Monday. I find that a little hard to believe \u2014 but we will see.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Large or small, the crowds will find some parking thanks to Shearer: Visitors are welcome to park in his church parking lot, he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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When in Texas, do as the Texans do. In that spirit, Audrey Cook Bines \u201992 and Joel Bines \u201992, who live in Dallas, are heading to Ennis, about 36 miles away, for an eclipse party featuring, of course, barbecue. \u201cIt\u2019s Texas!\u201d says Audrey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cInnis is directly on the centerline, so it will experience a longer duration of totality than others,\u201d said Audrey, who was born and grew up in Dallas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The last total solar eclipse in Texas was in 1878, and after this year’s eclipse, there won’t be another until 2045. \u201cSo we figured this was truly a once-in-a-lifetime invite to say \u2018yes\u2019 to,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Audrey remembers the partial eclipse on Oct. 3, 1986. \u201cI was in elementary school, and I found it somewhat underwhelming.\u201d No wonder, since only 20 percent of the sun was covered by the moon that time around. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI don’t think I had the appreciation for the science and the uniqueness of these occasions at that time. Now, I\u2019m curious and looking forward to adding it to my experiences and memories.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n After the 2017 eclipse, which Michael Lieber \u201992, who lives in Wilmette, Ill., and works in Chicago, was not able to experience in person, he skipped ahead in his calendar seven years and marked April 8, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But just where he\u2019ll be on Monday is still up in the air. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI’ve had a refundable flight to San Antonio for a year,\u201d he said on Tuesday. But the forecast there is iffy, so he pivoted to a \u201cperfect spot in Indiana.\u201d But with clouds possible there, too, he has since booked another refundable flight, to Boston. From there, he could make a bee-line to northern Maine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He\u2019ll make his final call on Saturday. For now, he\u2019s booked a hotel room in Auburn. From there, he plans to grab some grub from Forage on Lisbon Street in the morning, pick up his Bates daughter, Sarah \u201926, and then drive north.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Without ever leaving home, Sandra Shea \u201975 is in the path of a total eclipse for the second time in seven years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2017, when Carbondale and Shea experienced the eclipse, she noted that \u201ceverything about the eclipse is interesting. I\u2019m a nerd, I admit it.\u201d Retired from a faculty career at Southern Illinois University, she taught psychology and neuroscience at the School of Medicine, so \u201cscience is everywhere, every day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n This time, Shea plans to watch it in a rural area about five miles across town. She’ll be in the yard of a friend who is a member of a number of astronomy groups. The gathering will be a barbecue-turned-viewing spot with an array of telescopes set up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hotels in the area have been booked for years, Shea said. Carbondale, which has a population of roughly 20,000, and the Southern Illinois University campus, which has another 12,000, will see an influx of an estimated 40,000 visitors this weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI think it\u2019s a lot of fun that it’s happening again. As the local media says, it\u2019s a once-in-a-lifetime \u2014 and here is the second one,\u201d Shea said laughing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n As for the all-important weather forecast, she says “it’s odd for it to be sunny in early April. Right now, though, the forecast is holding.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n What she recalls most from the 2017 eclipse was how it got so cold, so fast. \u201cIt\u2019s amazing how fast it cools off. It\u2019s a very unusual feeling. If you didn\u2019t know what was going on, you\u2019d be perplexed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n This time around, totality is longer, more than 4 minutes. \u201cWe\u2019ll get to hear birds coming back to their nests, and the crickets come out. Birds apparently are quite sensitive to this. They don’t know why it\u2019s night suddenly.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014 by Deirdre Stires<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Jane Goodman \u201978, a professor of anthropology at Indiana University, has an ideal post-eclipse event to go along with being in the path of totality in Bloomington. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Joined by her sister and brother-in-law who will be visiting from Cape Cod, she will watch a documentary about Star Trek<\/em>‘s William Shatner, William Shatner: You Can Call Me Bill, <\/em>at the Indiana University Cinema \u2014 in the presence of Commander Kirk himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe’re also on a list to potentially meet Shatner in person. My brother-in-law is a big Star Trek<\/em> fan, so this will be fun,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Indiana University is a huge school with more than 45,000 students, and in such a packed place, there\u2019s lots of pre-eclipse talk about the crowds that will accompany Monday\u2019s 4-minute totality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI’d say that the vibe in Bloomington is mixed,\u201d said Goodman. \u201cA mix of anticipation and anxiety about what it will be like to have what’s being talked about as the equivalent of five football games happening in town simultaneously.\u201c (Indiana football games can draw more than 50,000 fans to Memorial Stadium.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSome people just want to hunker down and stay away from the impending crowds. There’s talk of an impending traffic nightmare. Pictures circulate on social media of the nightmarish traffic leaving Kentucky after the 2017 eclipse there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Like so many others in the path of totality, Goodman is \u201ctrying not to obsessively check the weather for that day.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n As a journalist who grew up in Indianapolis, Caty Green ’11 has a sense about events like this. “There’s a good portion of the population that can’t fathom the number of people that’ll be flooding in along the path of totality,” she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, she will take the day off from work and “plans to enjoy the eclipse with my dogs in the backyard. I considered meeting up with my family, but traffic around Indianapolis is expected to be a nightmare, so staying put seemed like a good plan.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n Green’s current work is in audience development as newsletter editor at Civic News Company, the parent organization for Chalkbeat and Votebeat, two nonprofit newsrooms covering public education and election administration, respectively. <\/p>\n\n\n\n During the 2017 eclipse, when she was with The Atlantic,<\/em> Green road-tripped from D.C. with a colleague to view it. After weather-related detours, “we ended up at a Tennessee state park in a field with I’d guess a few hundred people.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n She says she’ll “never forget the shift in the natural soundscape around us as this artificial night took over. We both wrote about it for The Atlantic, though my angle was far less serious than a science writer’s: ‘The Procrastinator’s Guide to Cosmic Marvel<\/a>.'” <\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2017, when the eclipse began its totality in Oregon, NASA scientist and baseball fan Noah Petro \u201901 was representing the space agency at a minor league baseball game that had the first eclipse delay in professional baseball history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This time around, he and his family (wife Jen Giblin \u201801 and their three children) will be in Cleveland helping to represent NASA at the Glenn Research Center, which is hosting a weekend-long event. (NASA has a full set of eclipse resources<\/a>, including maps and visualizations used in this story<\/a>.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n During the eclipse itself, \u201cour plan is to watch the eclipse with classmate Erin Mullin Shank \u201801 and her sons. We\u2019ll try to find a spot to watch with them away from the big crowds expected in downtown Cleveland, which is also hosting the Women\u2019s NCAA Tournament this weekend!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The moon is literally Petro\u2019s job. He\u2019s the project scientist for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter<\/a>, currently circling the Moon, and his next gig is as the project scientist for Artemis III, humanity\u2019s first visit to the Moon in more than half a century.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019m thrilled that this object that I study and care so passionately about has its moment in the sun, as it were!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n From a professional perspective, Petro is interested in the role the Moon plays in causing the eclipse, \u201cand how the shape of the Moon defines the path of totality, which is not a sphere, but is more irregularly shaped due to the shape of the Moon.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n This time around, the path of totality is better known, thanks to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has produced images with high-resolution topography. \u201cWe can predict where the eclipse will fall on the Earth with great accuracy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n And personally, Petro is excited by the eclipse \u201cas a sensory and cultural event. Not only do you see an amazing site, but you also feel the temperature drop, you see shadows change, and you hear animals do their nighttime routine. Being in the path of totality is an immersive experience!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Location<\/strong>: Chazy, N.Y. In Chazy, N.Y., lots of traffic warning signs are everywhere, says Kelly Andrew ’96. “Which makes me chuckle when we don’t even have a streetlight.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Andrew is the grower house manager for Giroux Poultry in Chazy, a fourth-generation family farm, a few miles north of Plattsburgh. “My glasses are purchased, and I have my spot on the farm picked out, on a hill that leads to open fields so there shouldn’t be any obstruction.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n After being buffeted by a recent winter storm, grocery shelves are getting bare. “We aren’t sure if our grocery shelves are empty due to the storm, spring break, or people just shopping early to avoid crowds this weekend.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n She will be working when totality arrives, and like others who work in agriculture or with animals (read on!), she will also keep her attention on the birds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “We expect some of our birds to exhibit normal night time behaviors by quieting down and looking for and heading to their roosting spots. Once the eclipse has passed, we assume the birds will go back to their normal daytime behaviors. We will certainly be assuring safety and well-being.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hannah Sessions \u201999 and Greg Bernhardt \u201999 operate an AirBnB on their goat dairy and cheese-making farm, and last summer someone booked the weekend of April 8, 2024. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThat\u2019s odd,\u201d Sessions recalls thinking. \u201cBooking a random weekend in April that far in advance?” In Vermont, early April is a slow time \u2014 skiing is mostly over, it\u2019s mud season, and warm-weather activities aren\u2019t possible yet. \u201cWell, the joke was on us! Those folks were smart \u2014 there is no room available anywhere in Vermont now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vermont is bracing for crowds that some say might rival the throngs that crowded into the state for Phish\u2019s farewell concert in 2004 and brought traffic on Interstate 91 to a halt. \u201cThey expect north of 200,000 visitors to the northern part of the state \u2014 the entire population of Vermont is around 600,000, so that’s quite a jump,\u201d said Sessions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Their farming operation, Blue Ledge Farm, is in Salisbury, just outside totality, so the couple plans to drive the eight miles to nearby Middlebury to experience a few seconds of darkness, then scoot back home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThere has been concern about how animals will react to this event,\u201d she explained. \u201cAs farmers, our first concern is with our animals, so our plan is to not travel more than the 10 minutes it takes to get into the path of totality. No crazy eclipse party for us until we know all is well with the goats!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to operating Blue Ledge Farm, Sessions and Bernhardt are painters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n From her perspective as an artist, Sessions is enchanted knowing that the stars will come out as the sun goes away. \u201cIt’s a reminder that the stars are always there. That’s how I see art: it’s purpose is to show us the beauty of simple moments, and remind us that beauty is always there, it’s just hidden sometimes \u2014 like the stars.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Blue Ledge makes a seasonal cheese called \u201cLa Luna.\u201d Of course, it\u2019s sold out, but a local co-op food store saved one wheel, which will be sold on Monday only. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSo you see, it is total eclipse mania around here! And we\u2019re crossing our fingers for a clear day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019m tempted to go somewhere and see the whole ring of fire thing,\u201d says Margaret Buschmann \u201972, who lives in Harmony. \u201cWe\u2019re going to be so close.\u201d She lives right in \u201cthe middle of nowhere\u201d with her husband, Fritz Buschmann \u201971, whose father was a German professor at Bates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She says Harmony, north of Skowhegan, is projected to see an eclipse of 99.82 percent, just a smidge away from totality. Two things are stopping her though. First are the anticipated crowds. \u201cThey\u2019re saying they\u2019ll have 40,000 people! The traffic will be atrocious.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The second are her feathered friends. \u201cI want to see how the birds react.\u201d During eclipses, animal responses are legendarily notable \u2014 but Buschmann isn\u2019t talking about the cardinals and chickadees at a birdfeeder. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The couple run Siesta Sanctuary, home of 38 (currently, as the numbers change all the time) parrots, macaws, cockatoos, and the like, ranging from age 11 to at least 42. They\u2019re both animal lovers, and Margaret has thought parrots are \u201cthe coolest thing on the planet\u201d since her parents took her to Busch Gardens in 1956 and she saw her first parrots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Harmony, they\u2019ve got a flight room and \u201ccages stacked on cages\u201d providing temporary homes for birds whose owners have died or gone into assisted living, or who just get in over their heads with what they think is going to be a fine pet bird and need to surrender them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The couple started their bird journey as empty nesters in Harmony, with plans to raise some baby parrots, but the operation steadily grew into a full-blown sanctuary. These birds, with their intellectual capabilities akin to a 5-year-old human, are not for everyone, she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is not like having pets,\u201d Buschmann said. \u201cThis is a lifestyle. It\u2019s like taking in a wild cat or a kangaroo. They live by their instincts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n One of those instincts is when it\u2019s time for bedtime. They require 12 hours of sleep, and usually by 7 p.m. some of the birds announce \u2014 very clearly \u2014 that it\u2019s time for lights out, like the African gray she\u2019s currently babysitting, who squawks, \u201cBedtime!\u201d That\u2019s when the couple typically puts covers on the cages and retreat upstairs to do things like watch television. \u201cWhich we have to do upstairs. The birds figure if someone is talking then they should talk louder.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Will the eclipse bring requests for early beddy-byes? That\u2019s what she\u2019s so curious to see. The couple won\u2019t put covers over the bird\u2019s cages. And they\u2019ll probably run in and out of the house during the course of the moon\u2019s movement over the sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI am going to stay right here and see what I see,\u201d Margaret says. \u201cAnd see what the birds do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014 by Mary Pols<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Eric Stirling \u201997 lives with his wife, Mildred, and young children, Avis and Oscar, so deep in the North Maine Woods that GPS doesn\u2019t work, and instead of a warm and fuzzy name for his community, there\u2019s a grid location: Township A, Range 12. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The beauty and peacefulness of their family business, West Branch Pond Camps, is renowned, and he\u2019s looking forward to catching the eclipse there with friends and family. \u201cWe decided not to reopen for lodging during the eclipse due to the logistical difficulties of having customers staying here during the height of our mud season,\u201d Stirling says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Earlier this week, he pointed out that April 8 represents an uncertain time of the year, weather wise, then updated us right before he headed out Thursday to plow five miles of road \u2014 for the second time that day \u2014 during the early spring Nor\u2019easter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019ve been amazed by just how many visitors businesses and local authorities are expecting during the eclipse,\u201d he says. \u201cI had no idea that it could generate so much interest.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Their plan for Monday is to boil sap from their trees, a ritual spring activity, while watching the eclipse. He\u2019ll be using his digital camera to capture images of the woods and open areas during the eclipse. \u201cI\u2019m most excited to see the colors and shadows that are so unique to a total eclipse.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n West Branch Pond Camps has been in the Sterling family for six generations. This year\u2019s eclipse marks the third generation (at least) to see an eclipse on the family land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMy mother was here at the camps as a teenager on July 20, 1963, when there was a total eclipse. She remembers my grandfather borrowing an old army truck from someone and taking the whole camp up onto White Cap Mountain to watch the eclipse from a logging road. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMy children love all things astronomy and are hoping to see stars when the sun is totally eclipsed. They\u2019ve grown up here in the woods under a true dark sky all of their lives. I\u2019m sure that whatever they see and experience during this eclipse will stay with them for the rest of their lives, like it has for my mother.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014 by Mary Pols<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Location<\/strong>: Millinocket, Maine<\/p>\n\n\n\n Totality begins<\/strong>: 3:31 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n\n\n\n Duration of totality<\/strong>: 2:27<\/p>\n\n\n\n As a volunteer chaplain for the local police force in Millinocket, about 70 miles north of Bangor, Ian Shearer \u201991 once used his Bates cross country experience to chase a burglar until the suspect stopped from exhaustion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As the eclipse heads into northern Maine, Shearer, who is the senior pastor at Faith Baptist Church in Millinocket, doesn’t have to chase totality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He says that his plan on Monday \u201cis just to go outside and watch the eclipse in an open field near our house with my family,\u201d his wife, Marcie, and five children. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Being far from the maddening crowds means the Shearer hasn\u2019t been swept up in all things eclipse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI honestly have not given a lot of thought to the eclipse other than a couple articles in the newspaper.\u201d And that includes his congregation. \u201cNo one has asked about the eclipse.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n He knows the event will draw crowds to his town, which has worked to revitalize its downtown following the loss of its paper-making industry in the 2000s. \u201cThe thing that has surprised me is how big a deal this is for some people. MIllinocket is a town of about 3,500. They are telling us to expect 10,000 to 40,000 people in town on Monday. I find that a little hard to believe \u2014 but we will see.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Large or small, the crowds will find some parking thanks to Shearer: Visitors are welcome to park in his church parking lot, he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Additional reporting by Deirdre Stires and Hannah Kothari ’26<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From Texas to Maine, we checked in with alumni in the path of eclipse totality to hear their preparations and plans. Some know exactly where they’ll be on Monday. 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Totality begins<\/strong>: 3:26 p.m. EDT
Duration of totality<\/strong>: 3:36<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Friedrich Buschmann ’71 and Margaret Kendall Buschmann ’72<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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