Eclipse excitement seizes U.S., with festivals and a mass wedding planned

Excitement is building for Monday's total solar eclipse. Along the path of totality, plans include festivals, viewing parties and even a mass wedding ceremony.

Eclipse mania has seized the nation.

From a mass wedding ceremony in Arkansas to a huge stadium event in Illinois, major preparations are underway all along the path of Monday's total solar eclipse. Concerts, festivals and viewing parties will celebrate what for many will be a once-in-a-generation — if not a once-in-a-lifetime — celestial event.

More than a dozen states are within what’s known as the path of totality, a track more than 100 miles wide that stretches from Texas to Maine. In that path, the moon will fully block the sun’s light and darkness will take hold for a few minutes in the middle of the afternoon. The rest of the continental United States will see the moon obscure only a portion of the sun’s face in a partial solar eclipse — the amount varies by location.

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/solar-eclipse-excitement-seizes-us-rcna146193

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