Eclipse excitement seizes U.S., with festivals and a mass wedding planned

Eclipse mania has seized the nation. From a mass wedding ceremony in Arkansas to a huge stadium event in Illinois, major preparations are underway all along the path of Monday's total solar eclipse. Concerts, festivals and viewing parties will celebrate what for many will be a once-in-a-generation — if not a once-in-a-lifetime — celestial event. More than a dozen states are within what’s known as the path of totality, a track more than 100 miles wide that stretches from Texas to Maine.

For smaller cities in the path of totality, the eclipse will bring a huge bump in tourism. Susan Edwards, who owns a rock shop in Paducah, Kentucky, started thinking a year and a half ago about plans for eclipse programming in her community of almost 27,000 residents. Since then, she has been working with the local leaders in Paducah, which has the distinction of also having been along the path of totality the last time a total solar eclipse crossed the U.S. in 2017.

Source: Energy Industry News (energyindustrynews.net)

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