South Carolina is one of the states that experienced the path of
totality for the solar eclipse.
Kings Mountain National Military
Park is about an hour’s drive from the path and we
happened to be scheduled to work that day.
The week before the eclipse
people called our park looking for eclipse glasses and the park gave them out
until their supply got low and they had to save the remainder for the actual
day of the eclipse. Also there were lots of extra visitors on the weekend
before the eclipse that were stopping by on their way to the path of totality.
Two parks in the path, Ninety Six National Historic Site and Musgrove Mill
State Historic Site, had eclipse programs that booked up long before the event.
The eclipse coverage was 98% in our park, so some people chose to come here rather than deal
with the traffic in the path of totality.
This one guy made a viewer
using a tripod and a Pringles can and his wife had a perfect shirt for the day.
Here Wilma and Ranger
Katherine try out an activity where a hole in a cut-out of the shape of South Carolina shows the
eclipse shape.
If you look carefully, you
might be able to see the hole that projects the eclipse image as this guy tries
it out.
Even the shadows created a
cool pattern.
