Small Ky. town focus of eclipse chasers
By BRUCE SCHREINER
Associated Press
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September 3, 2012
HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. (AP) — This southwestern Kentucky town has hit the astronomical jackpot.
When a total eclipse of the sun darkens skies on Aug. 21, 2017, the
show will last longer in a stretch of bucolic hill country near
Hopkinsville than any place on the planet. It will last two minutes and
40 seconds, not much longer than the Kentucky Derby.
But already this town of 32,000 near the Tennessee border is making
preparations to cash in on the fortuitous celestial alignment. And like
the Derby, run three hours away in Louisville, the eclipse itself will
be a blip in time compared to the buildup.
‘‘We will be the Mecca of the solar eclipse because we are the dead
center,’’ said Cheryl Cook, executive director of the
Hopkinsville-Christian County Convention and Visitors Bureau.
More: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/2012/09/03/small-town-focus-eclipse-chasers/C2yyp38F3aqqbQoey7qDZP/story.html
Sources: Associated Press, Boston Globe.
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