- Next time you pass by Veterans’ Memorial Field in Issaquah, pause for a moment. What are your memories here… pony rides and three-legged or snail races on Fourth of July; watching the DockDogs or printmaking with dead fish during Salmon Days; or that time you laid in the field on a warm August night watching for shooting stars? All of the above for me. On an ordinary day you’ll likely spot dog walkers, joggers, kids romping around the train-themed playground, a game of bocce ball on the new court at the Senior Center, and games of catch in the field. What you don’t see are stumps, steer wrestling, and the cheering crowds of a bygone era. This unassuming park has a surprisingly rambunctious past, a story that starts with a group of firefighters and ends with a modern-day community hub.
- Solar eclipse (Wikipedia)
A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the view of the Sun from a small part of the Earth, totally or partially. Such an alignment occurs approximately every six months, during the eclipse season in its new moon phase, when the Moon’s orbital plane is closest to the plane of the Earth’s orbit. In a total eclipse, the disk of the Sun is fully obscured by the Moon. In partial and annular eclipses, only part of the Sun is obscured. Unlike a lunar eclipse, which may be viewed from anywhere on the night side of Earth, a solar eclipse can only be viewed from a relatively small area of the world. As such, although total solar eclipses occur somewhere on Earth every 18 months on average, they recur at any given place only once every 360 to 410 years.