In 2017, my family watched the solar eclipse from Salt Creek Valley Farm near Leavenworth, Kansas. My kids were 2.5 years and 6 months old and it the day ended up being a little cloudy during the moments of totality, but it was a beautiful, imperfect, beautifully imperfect day. (I wrote more about that eclipse trip for The Millions back in 2018).
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