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| An artifact marble eclipse during the 2017 solar eclipse! |
My latest trip to Williamsburg coincided with the 2017 solar eclipse over North America. While Williamsburg did not get a total eclipse, a partial was still exciting! I decided the best way to avoid looking at the sun was to actively look in the opposite direction -- by searching for artifacts at DIG! Kids, Dirt, & Discovery!
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| DIG! Progress Report August 2017: The hole grows deeper! |
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| This brick fireplace I photographed last time. Still buried, but there's been lots of progress! |
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| Another brick formation starting to appear! |
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| These new stairs are already too short! Time to replace them for next year's DIG! |
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| The small, plastic sand box tubs are now replaced by a large, permanent sandbox! |
For the last program of the day, when the eclipse was to occur, no one had shown up to dig. There was a program on the Palace Green regarding 18th century science and solar eclipses, so everyone was avidly heading in that direction.
For that last hour, some digging happened, of course. Other parts were trying to look at the eclipse -- safely. None of us had any eclipse glasses, so rudimentary pinhole cameras were made.
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| Pinhole! |
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| Pinhole! |
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| Mini-partial eclipse! |
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| Using the pit to create a bigger eclipse shot through the pinhole |
It was pretty fun. At the peak eclipse, the sun's light got noticeably dimmer. It was a spooky effect. Shadows through the trees became crescent-shaped.
I tried to get a shot of the eclipse through my camera, but the sun was too bright.
Some people that were passing by would let us borrow their eclipse glasses from time to time. I got a pretty good shot putting the glass over my camera lens:
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| One of the (many) shots of me trying to get a picture of the eclipse through my camera. It didn't work. |
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| THE GREAT WILLIAMSBURG PARTIAL SOLAR ECLIPSE 2017!!! |
We finished off the dig session eating Moon Pies, of course. It was a good day, and no one lost their eyesight!
DIG! is done for the year, but it will be back again next year!
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