Eclipse magic leaves enduring imprint across Lamoille County
Vermont was buzzing this weekend as travelers elbowed their way through the Green Mountain State to catch a view of the total solar eclipse phenomena.
Not only was Monday a once-in-a-lifetime day, but it was also a whopping 55 degrees. Most people could be seen walking around town events in short sleeves, sporting the kind of smile that can only come from the first warm spring day after a long, long, winter.
As the sun disappeared by the minute behind the moon, eclipse-watchers from different states, who seemingly have nothing in common, found themselves in the same path of totality watching the celestial dance together in childlike wonder. Looking around, the eclipse did more than leave people awestruck — it brought people together.
As cheers erupted while the air grew colder and a still darkness settled against the Green Mountain landscape, neighbors threw their arms around each other, and for just a few moments, they were no longer strangers.
— Liberty Darr
The sun was going, going, gone on Monday during a rare total solar eclipse witnessed by thousands of people around Lamoille County and millions of people in North America who live in, or visited, the 115-mile-wide path of totality caused by the moon’s complete concealment of the sun. Here, during three and a half minutes of totality, the sun’s corona forms a perfect circle, creating a momentary “diamond ring” formation before the once-in-a-lifetime show was over.
- Photo by Gordon Miller
Monday’s solar eclipse culminated in the reason why thousands of people flocked to Vermont and Stowe: complete and utter totality. Here, after roughly three and a half minutes, the moon begins to retreat, and the corona flashes ever so briefly into what astronomers refer to as a diamond ring.
- Photo by Gordon Miller
The Bloomer family traveled from Massachusetts to view Monday’s total solar eclipse from the running track at Peoples Academy in Morrisville. They sported the ubiquitous eclipse sunglasses seen on thousands of faces around Lamoille County and brought along a special solar telescope to get a closer look at the celestial show.
- Photo by Tommy Gardner
The Doyle family and some of their friends, from Boston, visited Stowe during Monday’s total solar eclipse. They and thousands of others descended on the region for the once-in-a-lifetime celestial event, dotting the streets, hillsides and open fields, gazing up through special, and ubiquitous, dark-lensed eclipse glasses.
- Photo by Gordon Miller
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In Stowe’s village, eclipse watchers had their special glasses to protect their eyes and plenty of beverages to slake their thirst.
- Photo by Gordon Miller
- Photo courtesy of Mary Collins
- Photo courtesy of Mary Collins
- Photo courtesy of Mary Collins
- Courtesy photo
- Photo by Tommy Gardner
- Photo by Tommy Gardner
The sun was going, going, gone on Monday during a rare total solar eclipse witnessed by thousands of people around Lamoille County and millions of people in North America who live in, or visited, the 115-mile-wide path of totality caused by the moon’s complete concealment of the sun. Here, during three and a half minutes of totality, the sun’s corona forms a perfect circle, creating a momentary “diamond ring” formation before the once-in-a-lifetime show was over.
- Photo by Gordon Miller
Monday’s solar eclipse culminated in the reason why thousands of people flocked to Vermont and Stowe: complete and utter totality. Here, after roughly three and a half minutes, the moon begins to retreat, and the corona flashes ever so briefly into what astronomers refer to as a diamond ring.
- Photo by Gordon Miller
- Photo by Gordon Miller
One of the phases of Monday’s eclipse.
- Photo by Gordon Miller
- Photo by Gordon Miller
- Photo by Gordon Miller
- Photo by John Fitzgerald
- Photo by Kristen Braley
- Photo by Kristen Braley
Eclipse watchers gather Monday afternoon at a home on Earl Grey Road in Morristown, where food and drink and ooohs and aaahs were all in ample supply.
- Photo by Kristen Braley
Everyone had their eclipse glasses to watch the moon’s slow transit across the face of the sun, but removed them to witness three and a half minutes of awe-inspiring totality.
- Photo by Kristen Braley
- Photo by Kristen Braley
- Photo by Kristen Braley
- Photo by Kristen Braley
The Bloomer family traveled from Massachusetts to view Monday’s total solar eclipse from the running track at Peoples Academy in Morrisville. They sported the ubiquitous eclipse sunglasses seen on thousands of faces around Lamoille County and brought along a special solar telescope to get a closer look at the celestial show.
- Photo by Tommy Gardner
- Courtesy photo
- Photo by Gordon Miller
- Photo by Jill Anne
- Photo by Bob Fahey
- Photo by Gordon Miller
- Photo by Gordon Miller
Stowe town employees took some time from their workday to check out Monday’s total solar eclipse from the granite steps of the Akeley Memorial building.
- Photo by Gordon Miller
- Photo by Gordon Miller
- Photo by Gordon Miller
Others brought out more serious apparatus, such as special solar telescopes to view the three and a half minutes of totality that threw downtown into brief darkness.
- Photo by Gordon Miller
- Photo by Gordon Miller
The Doyle family and some of their friends, from Boston, visited Stowe during Monday’s total solar eclipse. They and thousands of others descended on the region for the once-in-a-lifetime celestial event, dotting the streets, hillsides and open fields, gazing up through special, and ubiquitous, dark-lensed eclipse glasses.
- Photo by Gordon Miller
Other folks chilled on the banks of the West Branch of the Little River, looking skyward at the big event.
- Photo by Gordon Miller
- Photo by Gordon Miller
- Photo courtesy of John Hodgson
- Photo by Gordon Miller
- Photo by Gordon Miller
- Photo by Gordon Miller
Photographer “Air” Gordon Miller took his drone to the skies on Monday night to capture the thousands of slow-moving southbound vehicles near the Waterbury exit off Interstate 89.
- Photo by Gordon Miller
- Photo by Gordon Miller
- Photo by Gordon Miller
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