Did you see it?
Photo by JOSH MCDONALD Josh McDonald, Shoshone News-Press Staff Reporter, gets creative with the office camera and snags this shot of the eclipse. Did you get a good shot of it? Share it with us on our SNP Facebook post about the eclipse!
Photo by Chanse Watson/ Looks like you can see the eclipse from Center of the Universe, after all!
Photo by JOSH MCDONALD Eclipse Kids- Kiley Hennings and her children Harley, Gracie, Brailey, and baby Daxon stand with friend Radley Groth (top left) after receiving their eclipse glasses. Daxon wasn't as excited as everyone else was.
The Great American Eclipse took the Silver Valley by storm as people across the area clamored for a chance to look up at the rare solar eclipse on Monday.
A lot of those people found that the Kellogg City Park was an excellent spot to congregate and view the eclipse, including the staff from the Kellogg Public Library (KPL).
The KPL set up shop at the Odd Fellows Pavilion on the west end of the park and handed out hundreds of pairs of “eclipse glasses” for free while also having activities for families to do prior to eclipse.
Gail Rowe, with the KPL was instrumental in getting the free glasses after she filled out an application with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration or more commonly, NASA.
“I applied for the glasses through NASA and we are on the NASA eclipse map,” Rowe said. “They sent us 1,000 pairs of the glasses, which we shared with the other libraries in the area and as of this morning I only have 140 pairs left.”
Those 140 pairs of glasses didn’t last long as a large line quickly formed near the pavilion with each person hoping to get a pair of the coveted eye protectors.
Without the glasses, the eclipse was nothing more than the early morning sky resembling the sky during a summer’s eve dusk, but with the glasses views could see the slow distortion over the course of a couple hours.
In neighboring Wallace, many residents gathered around ‘The Center of the Universe’ to see the festivities equipped with eclipse glasses, welding helmets, and even some makeshift jobs.
If you missed the eclipse, don’t worry, there is another one in just seven years, but you will have to travel a bit.
The next American solar eclipse will take place in April of 2024, but the path will run from Texas and head Northeast through the Midwest and into the New England states.