We appreciate it. Even though sometimes you dont say thank you. Thank you. I will carry on until i drop dead. Hi my name receive linn and im so glad to welcome you to the store this evening and were excited to welcome david barron, hes the author of american eclipse which is why youre is thing here. And were very, very excited because this is a really interesting book where the wild west meets the stars essentially, and if i was reading a little bit about it and about the time and the e and i thought how interesting 100 years ago 99 years ago was the last time we had a total eclipse that went from coast to coast. And it it was right over colorado. But you think about colorado 100 years ago it was a different place. It was known for it was a wild west. You know. Who would come to colorado well they wanted to come because you could stand on mountain and see eclipse better than anywhere else. So all of a sudden california took on a new place in science and a place that was the beginning of tourism in colorado and there was a lot of incredible tourism. So it all started with the loss of light. And you know, eclipse is first begun to record them it was the end of the world and then reading in 11 33 king henry the first died right after this total eclipse and they thought it was the end of their era. And now we have another one. So exciting if you get your own o american eclipse glasses so you can safely view the eclipse that is going to happen not right over colorado this time. But over o the west. On august 21st best place to see that will be in jackson arizona. Wyoming where david will be with the glasses on probably. And were so excited that hes here. Awardwinning journalist author and broadcaster so please welcome david barron. Thank you for coming out on this rainy night i have been on a book tour now for over a month. And im just thrilled to be here at cover a real highlight, i mean, i live in colorado. I live in boulder and as you all know this is a real jam in colorado. Theres eclipse coming up many our near future august 21st. For the first time in in 99 years total Solar Eclipse will cross the country coast to coast this is a big deal so how many of you have plans to go see the total eclipse . All right. Hopefully by the end of this evening you will all have plans. And of those who have been planning how long how many of you have beenen playing to see it for lets say at least a month . For at least a year . At least a decade how many year have you been forward to in . About six. Six years not six decades well not that this is a competition but ive been planning for this eclipse for 19 years. Indeed i have been planning this book for 19 years. So its surreal to see it as an call book so i want to start out and read a little bit from it and tell you about it but i want to talk about how i came to to write the become an as i say, i first got the 19 years ago but the story actually goes back a little further than that. So we have to go back to 1994. Back in the 90s i was a science correspondent for npr and in may of 1994, a Solar Eclipse a partial Solar Eclipse was set to cross the country and so i did a story about this. For morning edition, and i interviewed astronomer named ji and he explained what was going to happen, and how to view it. But he emphasized that as interesting as a partial Solar Eclipse is, a total Solar Eclipse is completely different. You know, total eclipse for all of two or three minutes usually moon complool obscures the face of the sun. Creating what he described as the most a u inspiring spectacle of all of nature so then jay, this was astronomer from williams college, gave me a piece of as that i will always remember. He turned to me and he said, before you die, you owe is to yourself to experience a Solar Eclipse to shocking to hear someone say i didnt know really well and felt intimate but he got my attention so i did some research, and first thing, of course, to know about a total eclipse is if you wait for one to come to you, youre going to be waiting a long time. Any given point on earth experiences a total eclipse about about once every 400 years. But if youre willing to travel you dont have to wait that long. And i found out that a few years later in 198, a total eclipse was going to cross the caribbean and now, a total eclipse is visible only in a narrow path about 100 miles wide that is called path of to it willty thats where moon falls and in february 1998 the path of totality was going to cross aruba. So i thought well, aruba, february, sounded like a good trip anyway so i headed south to to enjoy the sun and to see what would happen when the sun went away. Well the day of the eclipse i was out behind the high regency on the beach we were all waiting for show to begin and we were wearing eclipse glasses like the ones evelyn showed you. With cardboard frame and really dark lenses that enabled us to look at the sun safely so total begins as partial as moon makes its way in front of the sun so first it looked like sun had notch in its edge and that notch grew larger and larger soon sun became a crescent, and it was all very interesting. But i qongt say it was spectacular. Day remained bright. If i had not known what was going on overhead, i wouldnt have noticed anything unusual. Well about ten minutes before the total eclipse was set to begin, weird things started to happen so here i am on tropical beach and cool wind picks up. And then daylight looks off. Colors look odd, and shadowed look very is strange. They had become bizarrely sharp like someone had turned the contrast knob on tv. And then offshore i noticed running lights on boats so clearly it was getting dark although i hadnt realized it. But soon it was obvious and then all of a sudden the lights wngt went out well that like cheer erupted from the beach. And i took off my eclipse glasses because now only now during the total phase it is safe to look at the sun with a maked eye. And i looked upward and i was in my mid30s and i had lived on earth long enough to know what this sky looks like. I mean, i had blue sky and gray skies and starry and angry skies and pink skies that sun, but here with a sky i had never seen. So first there were the colors up above it was a deep purple gray like twilight. But on the horizon it was orange like sunset. 360 degrees. And up above bright star and planets had come out so there was jupiter and there was mercury. And there was venus and the planets were all in a line and there along that line was this thing this glorious bewildering thing it looked like a reef woven from silvery thread that just hung out there in space. Now, with that was the suns outer atmosphere the solar krona. And if youve ever seen a picture, pictures dont do it justice. It is not simply a halo around the sun. Its finally textured like it is made out of strands of silk. And although it looked nothing like our sun, of, of course, i w that was the sun so there was the sun and there were the planets and i could see how planets revolve around the sun like i had left our solar system and a was looking back at creation. And for the first time in my life, i just felt this really connected to the universe in in all of its immense and i stood there in what i can only describe as a state of nirvana for all of 174 seconds less than three minutes. Well all of a sudden it was over. The sun burst out and blue sky returned. The stars and planets and the krona requester gone. World returned to gnarl but i had changed. So thats how i became an eclipse chaser. So this is now i spend my tim and hard earned money i head to where moon shadow will fall to experience another minutes of cosmic bliss. But back in 1988 as a Science Writer i thought im going to write a book about eclipse chasing. But i knew that time to come out with a book would be in the summer of 2017. Because this is when americans will actually care about eclipses. So i put the project on hold an back to raid radio wrote another book which is up here and about 6 years ago i started to get serious as if im really going to come out with that eclipse in the summer of 2017 i better figure out what its going to be and i i didnt want to just write, you know, everything you need to know about eclipses or how to chase eclipse of 2017 although those are are fine books. I like to tell stories and i wanted to find a really good eclipse story. Something worthy of a book something that was entertaining and enlightening and will provide narrative thread for me to talk about eclipses to make them so interesting and why im so excited about them. And why everyone should go see them this summer. So thats as i say six years ieg started to look around and it became clear very early on that the best eclipse stories are not from mod rn times not from today. But from the 19th century. Because back in the 19th century total Solar Eclipses werent just interesting natural spectacles. They were really important to science. This was a, in fact, been called golden age this was a time when scientists were starting to unravel the story of the sun what is this great ball of fire in the sky what is it made of and what fuels it and there were studying they could do only during a total e Solar Eclipse which meant that again, these occur only about once every 18 months somewhere on the planet usually something is really inconvenient to get to like antarctica or middle of the pacific. And they lost all of three minutes. But the nations of europe and the u. S. Would put together these expeditions head out to where with they plotted the path of totality set up their equipment about parade a cloud didnt come along, and then in three minutes frantically conduct their studies. So i started look at the various eclipses during that period so there was the eclipse 1868 that crossed over i understood i understood why and 1870 over mediterranean and each of the eclipses has a cast of characters and interesting science that was being done, and interesting setting. And then i came to the eclipse of 1878. So july 29, 1878 the path of totality went right down the american frontier across the wild west montana territory to texas. And at what i started looking into what was going on, and the first thing i found out which if you google it youll probably find out. Is that at the eclipse of 1878 the most notable person to came to the wild west was Thomas Edison. Thomas edison was in wyoming on july 29th, 1878, to see a Solar Eclipse this was a 31yearold Thomas Edison who had just risen to worldwide fame for his invention of the phonograph. And right after he got home from wyoming, he started work on a new project which was the lightbulb. So between the phone grandfather and lightbulb edison has a trip out quest to see a total eclipse but theres got to be something there and, of course, there was a lot there. But then i started to think well there with dozens of interesting people who came out to wyoming and colorado and texas. And i started to make a list of who were these people an what was important for them and who might build a book arranged, and that was only that edison was one of them and edison it was a fascinating time in his life because edison this long Thomas Edison did not just be himself as an invent tore he actually wanted to be a scientist as well and this is different from what youll read about in most of his biography because he later in life was quite adamant that he was not a scientist, in fact, he was disdainful about economic scientist they didnt get their hands dirty and didnt understand how world works he did. But this young Thomas Edison wanted the respect of academic scientists and he, in fact, wanted to do basic Scientific Research so he invented a device, which was going to be bigger than phonograph. [laughter] brought out to wyoming he was a very sensitive heat detector that he was going to use with aura around to see it gave off heat as well as light so edison was around important character he was coming out quest to show that his was going to be this important knew device, and that he was a real scientist. Well another scientist i came upon who i thought clearly needed to be one of my main characters is a gentleman named james and watson back in the era was well known astronomer at the university of michigan. Who was well known as a planet hunter. You see back in that era, there werent just major planets that we all know. But there were minor planets which are asteroids not that many asteroids that had been found and they were considered planets called minor planets but they were given names like the major ones and finding they will was a big dole and James Craig Watson had a knack for findingsed tried one of the biggest in the world and he kill out west also to wyoming at 1878 to look for a planet and it wasnt just any old planet it was a planet called vulcan now long before star trek was thought to be a real planet. Back in 1878, many astronomers thought that the planet vulcan orbited sun between mercury and sun, in fact, planet if you look on some solar system charts from that era it goes vulcan mercury venus, earth the reason they thought it existed is because mercury orbit didnt seem to make sense when they made the calculations based on mechanics mercury orbit seemed to be off a little bit, and so astronomers figured there seems to be something messing with orbit they called it vulcan because roman god of fire with a hot space next to the sun. No one had ever reliably seen it but that wasnt really a surprise so close to the fun it will never tbht sky at night. And you cant see it in the daytime because it is lost in the suns glare and only time you might see vulcan is when moon briefly cover up bright sun and you can look around the sun for a a point of light thats not on your star chart and thats during a Solar Eclipse so he was had looking for vulcan. By the third main krk character and a piece of the bock youll see image of the three main characters, against harper weekly showing eclipse over Rocky Mountain manies. But ill show you third main character i have to say is any my favorite her name is Maria Mitchell. So Maria Mitchell the most famous female scientist in america she was an astronomer and risen to fame in 1847 when she discovered a comet and received a gold pettle medal from the king of denmark by 1878 she was professor of astronomer at vaster college, of course, at the time was a realtively new all female college in pip poughkeepsie, new york and we talk about difficulties women have in science even today you can imagine it was a lot harder being a female scientist in 1878, and so let me just read a little bit from what life was like for maria hitch el and kind of treatment the unequal treatment that she received. Despite teaching at a Womens College she received less than it half of the carling paid to the schools male professors in justice she fought with some success. And while astronomer and other universities offered jean is rows faculty housing mitchell occupied and slept on a sofa in a corner box like space that served as lecture room and college provided her with a separate apartment for sleeping it had previously been observatory coal storeroom, one of the students marked occasion in tongue and cheek bursts. Beautiful venus pride of the morning, tell it to stars that have fled that in a sweet chamber that needs no adorning ms. Mitchell sleeps in a bed despite her clashes with college administration, mitchell loved her girls as she called her students and in turn they adored her. It was for them that she took up arms in fight for womens Higher Education a campaign she waged even as a storm of opposition billowed. In 1873, a year when nation of grappling with financial panic a prominent boston physician introduced a new cause for public alarm. In a book called sex this education or a fair chance for the girl, doctor edward h. Clark warned that push finish female colleges and coeducation could seriously junders mine the help of american women. He contended by taxing brain Higher Education caused a girls body especially her reproductive organs to atrophy. When rest of the development of the reproductive system is nearly or quite complete it producing change in a womans character he wrote and this included, quote, a dropping out of maternal instinct many courseness and force. Such persons he went on are to the sexless class of termites. Clark recountinged case studies of previously halfs girls after studying girls became pail, sterile and he diagnosed death from overwork and in a new term victims entered the late 19th century thrown on defense proponents of womens education published rebuttal. Offering evidence of the health of College Girls and stressing that benefits of higher learning. If we know the number of young girls who died from overstudy let us find number who have died from aimless lies than those who cease to be young says mitchell clarks critics called out his book for what it was a thin hysterical, base on conjecture and evidence no matter sex and education found receptive audience in america unsettled by shifting gender roles the civil war having tragically killed well over half a million men left many women unmarried force them to enter the work force. Moon time effort to abolish shave rei including right to vote no longer denied at least in theory to freed black hen. American society changing that it seemed women were in danger of no longer being women and men would soon be e mask lated and sees to be men clarks book were told this horrid future. So Maria Mitchell up against an American Society that not only didnt see women as scientists but didnt even think that women should be educated in colleges it a large extent did something truly remarkable in 1878. So at that time, when there were these groups of men assembling out west Thomas Edison with his game and qat watson expeditions out west, Maria Mitchell assembled an all female expedition. And, in fact, it came to denver. And in the art insert youll see a card of the College Party on the planes outside of denver so this was, of course, it was a scientific expedition but it was more than that. It was a kind of political theater it was a chance to show an American Public that you know, women could be scientists they could be smart. They could be educated. They could be healthy. And they could be feminine ski love this image of women wait for the eclipse. So in the end i have i really identified these three main characters James Craig Watson thomas ed son and Maria Mitchell each of whom were pass nating characters each whom had a lot on the line during the eclipse of 1878 they had sthung to prove. But frankly ive got a cast up dozens of secondary characters very interesting people at that time. Who came out west for the eclipse as well. And i should say theres kind of another larger character and that is our nation, the United States of america. Because the eclipse of 1878 the u. S. Had a lot on the line. This was a time when you know we were a Young Country we had just turned 100 years old a couple of years before. We were becoming strong economically and getting attention in materials of the industrial strength but the world looked down on us in materials of our intellectual ability. Europe was the center of western culture. Europe was where you know, most of good literature and art and music and science came are from but there was a small group of american smises who were determined to show that we could compete on the global stage. And this was our chance. Right, total eclipses do not cross any given country all that often and here a total eclipse so important to science was going to cross our own backyard so u. S. Wanted to show the world that we were to be taken seriously and science, and eclipse of 1878 rallied america around science. And its just as i was reading newspaper articles from that had time it was fascinating how this country that frankly had not cared much about science suddenly really embraced science and American Public wanted our home team of scientists to show the world that we were just as good as those folks in europe. So ill get to questions in just a minute and read one last section but the other thing i loved about writing the book, of course, fanatical of myself about eclipses. But is this just this built in drama because planning eclipse expeditions this is something that took years. You know, people were looking forward to the eclipse of 1878 for years. They spent months literally planning the expeditions they sometimes spent weeks traveling out to the wild west and setting their equipment. And its all came down to three minutes. So as i get up toward the time of totality time kind of die lates so i actually had three full chapters that are just about july 29th,1878 because i have one with chapter thats about morning leading and early afternoon leading up to the beginning the partial eclipse and Second Chapter thats just about partial eclipse and chapter thats about what happened in three minutes so let me finish by reading the the last minute before the onset of the total Solar Eclipse and a ill just say that so again reare minder that for anyone going to see eclipse this year, during the total eclipse you can where and should look with the naked eye but during if youre not in the path of totality and even in the path of totality any time when the sun surface is visible during a partial eclipse you have to use eclipse glasses and even back then people wore eclipse glasses. They were not up to our modern standards. But people took pieces of of glass and smoked them over flames to make them really dark so the folks were watching the partial eclipse through smoke glass. With with just a minute to go before totality, a bizarre phenomenon became visible to some. As if the sun were being projected to shall is low water at the beach, now bands of light and shade rippled across the ground. Or from the view point of astronomer Edward Holden stationed atop terror house hotel in colorado across the roof. They coursed after each other rapidly he wrote with about three feet from center to center to dark say six inches white interval being bright. These waivey lines turned shadow bands are not always seen but can be dramatic as if the total Solar Eclipse of 1842 in Southern France reported to be so striking that children ran after it and tried to catch it with their hands. The cause of these ripples is same that makes stars twinkle kurnghts of warm and cold air that bend light as it passes through the atmosphere. Indeed shadow bands called visible wind. The suns crescent had now grown exceedingly cylinder a near, had continued to shrink like ember blow itself out at the end and glowing thread produced a final brilliant display. It shattered into a string of shimmering jewels. These dancing poingts of light called beads describe and explained by british astrowner in francis in 1836 are the last of the suns rays filtering through valleys on edge of the moon. In closing i seconds darkness falls with disorienting repeat as if youre lose your eyesight or perhaps your sanity. The dimming light does not just surround you, it swallows you. The very ground seemings to give way. In the midafternoon on july 29th, 1878, as people of southern wyoming plunged into shadow they withdrew the glass from their eye. Thank you. [applause] im happy to any questions one note before you ask your question, folks from cspan will want to bring high kro phone over to you. Yes up here in tront. My question is, your background is in journalism, obviously, done historic work with this had in the garden how hard was it to be in historian mode and challenge from your perspective there . Thats a great question it was so i worked as a journalist for many years. And i it was a huge challenge. I mean i didnt know what i was doing at first i didnt how to access these papers when i discovered that the a lot of documentation is held at the library of congress and national archives. And also archives at universities across the country. I thought well, do i need to show i have a ph. D. In history before they let me in . Of course not. But you know, go to library of congress, and find proresearcher card, an they let you had in, and i was holding papers of Alexander Graham in my hand but it was a lot of work to figure out where various archives relevance were then finding relevant boxes, and going through boxes and boxes of handwritten letters. [laughter] and fading newspaper articles and at first it seemed daunting and overwhelming and then it became tremendous fun, because it was a Treasure Hunt and you look to a lot of stuff thats of no value and then you find that so now that ive done it once i would like to do it again. I really enjoyed writing about history. Way in the back and wait for the microphone if you would. I loved it and i cant wait to read more. I wanted to share that im a Third Generation alum well talk after. [laughter] great. So my grandmother was class of 1914 so she would have loved this. But i brought an obituary from 1933 from new york city, of my great, great uncle which say he crossed the atlantic he crossed the ocean 100 times he was a great enthusiastic sunt of Solar Eclipses and he observed everyone. So its wonderful. And actually, i mean, one of the things that i really love about total eclipses and why i think its frankly a great topic for work of history is that toalings Solar Eclipses are the same experience today we experience them the same way today as people did back in 1878 its a shared human experience. That crosses generations and crosses experiences and you know scientist who is kale out hire in 1878, yes they had their studies they wanted to do but they were excited about seeing total eclipse they were just junkies like i am and be many of them to 1870 in med trirn and one many 169 that crossed part of the United States and they just wanted to have another fix of a looking at the solar krona which is most glorious sight in the heaven. So i would thank you for your thought it was so neat that newspapers thought it neat to sy about incredible dedication going around the world looking at Solar Eclipses. I hope my obituary mentions that had too. [laughter] oh, up here in the front. Where are you going to see this one coming up . So august 21st, 2017 i will be in jackson, wyoming, and i made my Hotel Reservations there three years ago. And im glad i did because there isnt anything left in wyoming unless youre willing to spend 1,000 a night. But so jacksonville fine place to be, wyoming in general is a great place to be because its this horizon that impose on forever. Odds of clear skies ared good and thats important. Jackson is beautiful being up there. Honestly if i were just going up i made my reservation long ago i have family coming in happy to be in jackson. But its not actually the best police to be in wyoming. Because the mountains tend to create clouds. And so the odds of clear skies arent better over casper or farther east or over nebraska. Western nebraska would be a great place to be. So from denver there are places one could get to certainly in a day. But expect absolutely epic traffic wyoming will have more people within borders than it has ever had ever. It has going to be a crazy, crazy day. Over here. Hi. Love the book. Just loved it thank you so much. Your story telling was just really fascinating and ive been be looking forward to this eclipse for several, several years. And i used to live in alliance, nebraska. The home of car hinge. And so i called them about three years ago and i said are you getting ready for eclipse they said what eclipse . So ive been on committee ever since then working with them preparing everything, and like you said, the state patrol is really concerned. Because their estimating half a Million People coming into nebraska. To try to get into that 70mile and theyre concerned that people will pull off the road you know, stop wherever, and so its beginning to be quite a, quoit a circus but its wonderful that so many people are wanting to share this special time in science. Well it is i think we just have to accept that august 21st, no one will get anything done. And its imoik to be insanity in a lot of place theres terrible traffic. And so first of all anyone going to see the eclipse should be really a selfsufficient as possible. Like make sure your car has as much gas as you can put in the tank wherever you get to a gas station have water and food and be prepared to be on your own for a while. The cell towers may be overwhelmed you may find you cannot make calls from path of totality that said dont let that diswade you. [laughter] because this is its a rare gift. Living on earth that question get to see total Solar Eclipses i agree with with what they told me no one should leave this earth without least seeing within so theres a question in the back. Yes. You mention it hangt changed much but i have to speculate with atmosphere im sure scientists who will study the rays like that that theres going to be some change with atmosphere with with things that have been changing to atmosphere that ozone things look that. Youre asking about so well that atmosphere has changed pollution in the atmosphere. Well i dont think that so during the total Solar Eclipse back then really porpght thing was to use a stethoscope which enables you to determine what a chemical element in the sun thats, in fact, how helium was found in the sun and hydrogen is and solar atmosphere but i dont think that that really would be efnghted by the by the earth atmosphere. I havent heard anyone say that. There are studying during total eclipse this year there will be scientists studying the sun, and there are still interesting things to be learned during a total eclipse it is now much more fine turning our understanding of exactly how the solar krona works that its over a degrees and gets accelerated into space at incredible speeds an not clear where all of a of the energy that gets transferred to kro that and those will be some of the questions that scientists are trying to answer. But its about its you know total eclipse way back in the 19th century, of course, there were really basic questions people trying to answer. But i may also say theres theres going to be some Citizen Science efforts underway as well back in 1878 u. S. Government asked the public it draw the krona and submit their drawing to washington because photography wasnt that good an any information was important and crowd sources gong on todays now with smart phones. Theres something called eclipse mega movie project. And anyone who wants to participate can google it actually google is partly behind it. And use your smart phone to take picture or video of the corona during totality it and those picture and videos are stitched together many in a continuous movie of what the solar krona looked like over the entire hour and a half it will take for the moon shadow to move from oregon to south carolina. Question over there. Do you happen to know when humanity was first able to predict eclipses . So when humanity was first able to predict eclipse it is goes way back if youre talking in very general materials if. So the and ancient babylonian they generally how to predict eclipses because eclipse lure and solar repeat themselves after a period of about 18 years is actually 18 years ten and a third days of given eclipse will come back. Now it will come back but its 18 years ten and a third day in that third of the day, europe has turned third of the way so it will repeat itself but a third of the way around the planet so, in fact the eclipse thats coming up in august in a sense i saw that same eclipse in in munich in 1999 it is part of the same called stero series if you look at path of totality and shape across europe that year it is the same shape youll see across the United States. So ancient culture figured out this 18year cycle but so they knew that after 18 and a few days if you saw Lunar Eclipse you will probably see a Lunar Eclipse again but sometime you qongt because its on the wrong side of the planet but didnt understand what was happening but they figured out pattern it wasnt until really the 18th century that scientists were able to map the path of totality of a total eclipse so one thing to predict eclipse solar or lunar will probably come on a certain date. But to map this specific path requires detailed understanding of the orbit and sophisticated map so that didnt come along until a few centuries ago. Yeah. I work at st. Josephs hopts and i was really happen because we corresponded to sew that you mentioned that nugget of the sisters coming out to offer tea to the expedition that was it there in front of the the hospital. I mean we couldnt find a whole lot of information about that unfortunately. But i was really happy to see that. Nice to meet you we conversed by email. We did. So women were help bid st. Joseph home it was and early happen been here for yief five years at that point and sell here today. There is one storyline i sow. I never even mentioned the guys name i dont think. So whats interesting astronomer came out west was david. He was young, in his early 20s at the time. He went to see the clips in texas. Now, david pack went on to become the astronomy professor at Amherst College massachusetts, he will go to see many total eclipses around the world, he came out in 1878 and was madly in love with maple. So they were courting each other. They were writing this love letters back and forth. He just cannot bear to be away from her in texas. And he stopped and maple ville, arkansas just because he loved her so much he needed to go there. About their life stories were interesting because mabel loomis who became mabel loomis todd, the two of them but of interesting life and she is best known today as the person who first edited and published the poetry of emily dickinson. She wrote a book called total eclipses of the sun later on. , shes very well known for having an affair with Emily Dickinsons older brother who was himself married. So theres this great gossipy stuff. But it seemed a little too gossipy. In the in, david todd was interesting to read an interesting life. But was see most important to me was my main characters had to have something at stake during the clips of 1878. In the end, he really didnt. I wouldve loved to have included that whole story in the book. About mark train, you have a couple mentions in there, but i wondered, did he more than these various quotes, did he get interested . In others a quote about i came in with haleys come can you tell us about that . Mark twain and obviously he was very prominent back in 1878. Unfortunately he was not in america at the time of the clips. He was in europe. Id hope it seen it or commented on it. I think it was after the clips of 1870 that he came out with a connecticut yankee in king arthurs court. That is a key point total Solar Eclipse. I dont know if it inspired him at all. More importantly the story he tells in connecticut yankee were his characters try to escape from trouble by predicting the sun will go away but he knew that any abdomen i could told him the clips is going to happen. Those inspired by what happened to christopher columbus. Thats a true story that when columbus was in the west indies and having trouble he had an almanac that told him that a Lunar Eclipse is going to happen. And he said if you dont help me with what i need to do, and i forget the details, im going to turn the moon a blood red and sure enough, the moon turned to blood red and then he brought it back. There was more the inspiration but he may have been inspired by the clips even though he didnt see it. Thank you. I will stick around to sign books. Happy to talk oneonone. I appreciate you coming. [applause] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible]
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