The Eclipse of Genevieve and John Goss: A Journey to Vincennes, Indiana, to Celebrate the 35th Anniversary of their Marriage
“I really think that for many people, Muslim or not, that the eclipse is really like this big, amazing event that we’re all like stopping our day to look at the sky and just be like, ‘This is crazy, right?’ ” Herrera says. “For us it’s also just a remembrance that the universe is vast and we are small and there’s a lot of power, and that’s amazing.”
The couple went to Wyoming to see the eclipse. She says tying the eclipse to the anniversary is worth it because Indiana may have more cloud cover.
Goss says the dual milestone is meaningful because astronomy is close to their hearts: She describes herself as an amateur astronomer and says her husband is a former president of the Astronomical League, an umbrella group of amateur astronomy societies.
On the day of, they plan to make the more than 70-mile drive out to Vincennes, traffic permitting, ideally to the hilltop church where they married on April 8, 1989.
Genevieve Goss and her husband John will celebrate their 35th anniversary on Monday in the Indiana city where they married, which just so happens to be in the path of totality.
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Goldstein also took the morning off during the 2017 eclipse and drove an hour from his office hoping to catch a good glimpse. It started to rain when it was cloudy.
“So I feel like I’m doing a good thing and good service for the people that are interested in backpacking and seeing a unique celestial event,” he says.
On Monday there is time left to hike up to a fire tower and watch the eclipse, as well as time to hang out and watch the eclipse. The group will have about 10 people and two leaders. It’s free of charge, unlike many other such outings.
The 59-year-old is a longtime outdoor enthusiast who teaches a backpacking course through his local Sierra Club chapter and leads regular outings throughout the year. He says that the eclipse trip is extra special because of the rarity.
Jake Goldstein of Overland Park, Kan., will be taking the day off from his job as a podiatrist to co-lead a backpacking trip through the Ozark mountains in Arkansas.
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When the bridge is finished, I’d like to tell people to come and visit, because it will be beautiful when we are open in the summer. “But it’s going to get very cozy here on the eclipse day … Everyone is going to have to be patient.
Gardner expects visitors will still come to Luna Pier and says the city is taking precautions to keep people safe — calling in reserve law enforcement, bringing in portable restrooms and encouraging property owners to rent out their parking spaces.
“We are getting a lot of calls,” he says. “People are asking if the beach is open and the pier is open and it is, but we’re not doing any special celebrations or advertising or parties or anything like that, sadly.”
The city of about 1,400 people has been getting a lot of buzz lately, with national and local press crowning it a top eclipse destination. But there’s one big problem: The bridge on the only road into town over I-75 is being rebuilt and isn’t set to reopen until July.
“This is just made for us, a name like Luna Pier,” says the mayor. There is a pier on Lake Erie. We were looking forward to it for quite some time.
Luna Pier, in the far southeast corner of Michigan, sounds like a perfect place to watch the eclipse, and not just because it’s the only city in the entire state in the path of totality.
Half-moon cookies and moon pies will be available for purchase at a nearby brewery on Sunday, where they’ll give out eclipse glasses. They plan to watch the eclipse on their deck with friends and family the next day.
Helen Hutchins is expecting her first child at a perfect time, as the eclipse is coming. She knew she’d be 33 weeks along at that point, so why not have a baby shower?
“We played disco music and we had a good crowd of folks and it worked so well,” says Warkentin, 57. “They were all looking at these big four-inch projections of the eclipse, all were bouncing around, swaying in the wind and on the walls of the library. It was amazing.
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She states that they’re able to allow whole groups to see the same thing at the same time as opposed to looking through individual glasses, creating a shared experience and better conversation.
Their findings were published in a journal last month. And Warkentin hopes others will consider using disco balls to enhance their viewing experience on Monday.
Round Rock — a city about 20 miles north of Austin — had a front-row view of the annular solar eclipse that passed through Central Texas in October 2023.
Here are some of their stories, from the New York parents-to-be planning a themed baby shower to a Texas librarian setting up disco balls to the Michigan mayor waving tourists away.
The Milkhouse Brewery at Stillpoint Farm won’t see a lot of sun on Monday. But it will hold an eclipse-watching party nonetheless — and expecting a big turnout.
More than 800 people are interested in the event on Facebook. More than 500 people showed up to the brewery’s last eclipse event, in 2017, which Barse says they hosted “on a whim.”
They’re more prepared this time, bringing on extra staff and taps just for the day and expecting a high turnout regardless of the weather. Barse knows from experience that people get really excited about seeing even a partial eclipse.
He says that it’s a phenomenal thing. “It’s like 2:30 in the afternoon on a Monday and people skip work and they skip school — it’s like a major holiday.”
Scores of Americans are making special plans for the day, from flying across the country to driving across town, ready to don their requisite glasses, look up at the sky and admire a phenomenon the U.S. won’t see again for another 20 years.
And many more outside the 100-mile-wide “path of totality” — every U.S. state, according to NASA — will still see a partial eclipse, in which the moon blocks at least some of the sun.
Herrera, a junior at Simmons University in Boston, plans to take time off from classes to spend the day with her family and go to a local mosque for a special prayer that is only said during an eclipse. She says the general message is to stop and take a minute to recognize how much the universe is.
After a day of dedication to God and worship, she will break her fast with her family and head back to the mosque for evening prayers.