They married in 1964. Marcy, working as a public school-teacher, followed Phil to Boston, then New York, where he was a professor at the City University. The two of them followed Marcy's brother, a planetarium education specialist, to Canada in 1963 to watch their first total eclipse. It changed their lives. There's no comparison between a partial eclipse and totality.
Daylight gives way to an unearthly night, the temperature drop, animals go to sleep.
Now I understood why wars were started and people beheaded during a total eclipse. Another total eclipse visible from the United States was coming up in 1970. Marcy, whose zest for new experiences was matched by her delight in sharing them with others, schemed with Phil to hold a rock festival that day in Eclipse Virginia . The town fathers demurred, so the novice entrepreneurs next approached officials on Nantucket Island. There, too, they were rejected.