Past solar eclipses startled Arkansans, bugs and birds | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

The last time a total solar eclipse occurred in Arkansas -- in 1918 -- people ran out of their houses and into the streets "calling on the Lord for mercy" while chickens went to roost and lightning bugs "roused from the grass."

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