In Eclipseville, everyone is ready ..

Hopkinsville, what - awaiting a long week, the crowd started last week in the city last week, and Eclipseville was ready.

Located in the southwest territorial landmass of the Tennessee and Illinois borders, a campaign of heavenly geography has become Hopkinsill, a city of about 30,000 people, formerly known as black patch tobacco and a bowling ball factory, for about 2½ minutes in the center of the Sunless Earth, whatever happens.

At 1:24 PM and 41 seconds Central Time, the total solar reception to throw WhiteTown will spread across the United States, because locals will be informed, this is the total shadow. As it happened, it is considered to be the closest city to astronomers' highest acceptance point: NASA says that "the shadow of the moon shines near the center of the world".

For a number of cities and cities with the so-called path of holiness, a rare moment in Monday's sun taken. Places alongside Ellioy border along with Sarulia and Metropolitas, and Blersville, G., have spent years preparing for a wide crowd. Hopkinsville website - of course, eclipseville.com - even has a running countdown clock.

Nashville is completely the whole city along the route, from Grand Ole Opry to Nashville Zoo is offering dozens of public appearances on the site. The observation of zoo zodiac shows is that "the animal behaves differently during the total solar eclipse". It may be too dark to see a dark confusion.

There was a lot of excitement to overcome a narrow band in the country, there was a mobile warning that had been halted by Vanklove's harm: the lack of polluted gas and food was not implemented, and as of Sunday, the traffic was heavier than usual, but still the standard of air by Boston . The Nashville Police Department is also straying on the streets in the streets, awakens an image from the science-fiction science conversation, and slowly shouting at the main road in the jaw.

"Most people are there", Crystal Martinez said, owned by The Village restaurant in Hopkinsville, where employees appear outside the city on Sunday morning. "We have spectators to run the place."

And the visitors are bound. On the Deborah Recreation Complex, a tent city spread over the weekend as people from all over the country were admitted to the 95th Degree on the way to humidity.

In these last few days, Gary Barker felt as if he is living in the 50's Super Bowl line in the garden. The residents of Hopkinsville's life are walking through Trent City, everyone is taking photos and welcoming them in the city. "I have not seen anything like this," Barcker said, the gesture of tent and telescope expansions and field activities, just a few steps from his home

Jeremy Kone of Nashville, acting next to any sign outside the tin roof, "How did the man cut his hair on the moon?" Before accepting Monday's total

Without a plan, it can be a challenge to get the area. Taxis were mostly overbooked. The hotels talked mostly, and how the cells were maintaining, their fixed rates were reduced several times. The available Airbnb list includes a handful of mostly a tent. Last weekend, you might be better off trying to book a ticket to the actual moon.

The pilgrimage of this region is less "Mecca Journey" and more "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," but it is still a pilgrimage. Sunday's Nashville Road was filled with recreational vehicles

Tom Carney, an amateur astronomer from Plymouth, left his home with Elaine, who soon became the humanitarian subject of Regis College, on Thursday, rotating on Friday at Nissan Verche and Hopkinsill. They were stored in the field outside their spot sale in April.

"Some people registered this three years ago," Caret, spend around and spend a few days in Nashville after Christmas, For Ellen Carney, Hopkinsville has become a welcome surprise. He and locals are surprised by each other's accent, he said, and they're enjoying the restaurant.

Some times before 1:30 pm, a long time ago, in the village, folding bubbles or folding trimmed sandstone. It's impossible to say Monday Maybe someone will not come. The city's movie theater is becoming dark, presumably somebody can not buy tickets for "nut job 2: nature knot", when they can look out of the dark for free to listen.

But whatever, Martinez and his staff will come out for a few minutes on Monday. They will see the invisible sun on Eclipseville for the last time, and then emerge again, a few moments later, brighter on the Hoptown.

More photos:

Pittsburgh's Lorraine Boheem, his umbrella grabbed some shades under a star starring star.

Louisiana, Kiwi's Brian Badgegate, has his camera inside a telescope so that he can accept.

From left to right: Both Hopkinsilli's Gary Barker and Lauretta Hudson spoke to Brian Badgegate of Louisville, two of his telescopes.

Hopkinsville has an easy way to reach the street on the road to the campground.