The total eclipse and the sun starting to return, was seen in the Davis back yard in Hardwick on Center Road.
Cars from Massachusetts, New York, Maine and Vermont arrive at the Caspian Lake Beach parking lot at 9:30 a.m., on Eclipse Day.
Eclipse Day visitors to Caspian Lake Beach at 9:30 a.m., April 8, included D.J. Placek (left) from Chicago and Robin Goodwin from New York City walking their dogs, while Kevin Selesta, who drove from Boston after picking up Placek at the airport there.
The Village Restaurant in Hardwick was filled with customers Monday with
people waiting outside to get in. Viewing of the eclipse brought many visitors
to town.
Hardwick had many out-of-state visitors on eclipse day who stopped to eat
and shop along Main Street.
The Galaxy Bookshop in Hardwick is one of 10 New England bookstores
highlighted in this month’s AAA magazine. The store is co-owned by Andrea
Jones and Sandy Scott, both of Walden. The Galaxy Bookshop was filled with
customers Monday who were in Hardwick or passing through Hardwick on
their way to view the eclipse.
Front Seat Coffee was one of the many businesses in Hardwick that benefitted
from all of the visitors who were in town to view the eclipse, or just passing through.
The “diamond ring” effect before the last limb of the sun disappears behind the moon, as captured from Blake Hill Road in Woodbury, during the total eclipse of the sun on April 8.
Visitors to Caspian Lake beach on April 8 watched a 360-degree sunset as the wind died and a tranquil patch of open water in the mostly ice-covered lake reflected the scenery for a small group of silhouetted eclipse watchers.
About 30 people joining Kathy Rowley at her Center Road house in Hardwick for a bonfire and to enjoy the total eclipse on April 8. One of her guests, seeing that Texas was clouding up, changed plans and headed instead to Vermont from Maryland, which saved him a day and a half of driving and brought mostly clear skies with only high, wispy cirrus clouds.
Miles Brooks, along with family and friends, traveled from southern Vermont to view the eclipse from the breakwater at Caspian Lake beach. The family knew the area because they’ve skied at the Craftsbury Outdoor Center.
A colander filtered the partially-eclipsed sun at Caspian Lake beach on April 8.
Visitors to the Caspian Lake beach line up along the dam while others sit in chairs by their cars while viewing the total eclipse of the sun on April 8.
A group of physicists traveled from New York City for the day while playing hooky from their work and asked to remain anonymous while watching the eclipse from Caspian Lake beach on April 8.
The moon completely covering the sun at Hardwick’s Memorial Park just before 3:30 p.m. on April 8.
About 100 people turned out for the Jeudevine Memorial Library’s Total Eclipse of the Sun celebration in Hardwick’s Memorial Park on April 8, including Abrah Griggs, Carlotta Hayes and Sam Avery who wear eclipse glasses to observe the moon covering the sun.
One of the creative ways to safely view the partially eclipsed sun was through the shadows created by a kitchen colander.
Dave Gross set up his birding scope to give Memorial Park visitors a projected view of the crescent sun.
A lot of visitors were here for the solar eclipse in Hardwick Monday morning.
A few of the license plates were from Conn., Kansas, Virginia, Delaware,
New Jersey, Florida and North Carolina. Businesses on Main Street were
overflowing with customers.
After the solar eclipse, a line of cars as far as the eye could see, went through
the Hardwick intersection on Main Street for over an hour and a half. The line
of cars were on their way home.
A crowd attending the sold-out Highland Lodge event in Greensboro watched
the eclipse on Monday, April 8, 2024
Old friends visiting Greensboro’s Broadfork Farmstead for the total eclipse on April 8 traveled from Gatlinburg, Tenn., Salem, Boston, Orange and Norwood, Mass., and Derry, N.H. They included back row (all left to right) Shirley Benson, Jessica Benson and Brian Mallet; middle row Miley Busteed, Caius Busteed, Mickey Benson, Staci Bigelow, Carol Fairbank and Lynn
Boudreau; front row: Craig Busteed, Liz McGowan Busteed, Rebecca Russ, Sairys Greene and Jenna Greene.
Holly Marple of Massachusetts, her mother Margaret Marple of Wardsboro,
John Stebbins of Massachusetts, Joel Carpenter Jr., of Massachusetts with
his father Joel Carpenter Sr. of Massachusetts. Auriel Gray and Adrian Ivakhiv
of Barre and Karen Hennig of Irasburg wait for the eclipse to begin on a hill at
Highland Lodge in Greensboro.
Julie Higgins (left), Craftsbury third grade teacher, Susan O’Connell (center),
Craftsbury library director and Monique Beaudry (right) a member of the
Craftsbury parent teacher organization, organized the solar eclipse gathering
on the Common Monday, April 8, 2024.
Bruce Guillian (left) of Craftsbury looks through an electronic telescope with
a solar filter set up on the Common by Mike O’Connor (right) of Stowe.
A crowd, estimated at 225, viewed the once-in-a-lifetime experience from
Craftsbury Common.
After watching the solar eclipse, Samuel Koschak, 8, (left), of Craftsbury and
Asher Jacobs (right), 9, of Craftsbury, enjoyed walking in the skating rink that
was still set up on the Common.
A crowd watches the southwest sky from the lawn of the Craftsbury Library as totality approaches.
Rylan O’Connell views the solar eclipse through eclipse glasses on Craftsbury Common.
Joe Nudell, visiting his mother in Hardwick, drove across the U.S. from San Francisco with his brother, Tom, to snap this photo of totality from a hill on his land off Mud Island Road in Glover, just across the Greensboro town line.
The front porch of the Nancy and Michael Lammert home in Greensboro appeared as the Sun began to emerge from totality. The shadows almost look like smoke or waves.
A state police cruiser with lights flashing under an eclipsed sun during totality on April 8.
The total eclipse and the sun starting to return, was seen in the Davis back yard in Hardwick on Center Road.
Elia and Rosalie Hart from Bloomfield, Conn., check out the military rescue helicopter that landed in a field on Montgomery Road in East Hardwick. The military personnel on board got permission to land there so they could watch the eclipse, as area airports were full.
An earth and moon model built by Lucian and Sam Avery was set up at the Memorial Park. The sun was at the Hardwick Historical Society Depot building down the rail trail to dramatize the great distance from the earth-moon system to the sun.
What looks like a tiny yellow ball is down the rail trail and next to the Historical Society. It is as tall as a person, dramatizing the great distance to an earth-moon system model built by Lucian and Sam Avery that was set up at the Memorial Park, where this photo was taken from, it shows the relationship that causes solar eclipses to occur.
