A great time was had by all at the Churchill Jr. High eclispe party- I guess between 50 and 75 people came by. As others have noted, some folks just walked by and never made an attempt to ask even a question let alone step up to the eyepiece. However, the vast majority of people were really stoked about what they were seeing. Several people left and came back with more family members and/or neighbors. A gentleman used his digital camera and shot a couple dozen images through one of my welding glass lenses as well as simply hand holding his camera at the eyepiece of my telescope. I'll put them on a web page and post it up sometime today (6-11). Another gentleman used his hand held binoculars to project an image on to some paper I had. I didn't notice the sunspots as Chuck noted, but it added to the fun. All told, I had my telescope & filter, binoculars & filters, welding lenses, and a few folks brought thier own filter glasses. My thanks to Joe Bauman for the article in the 'News. I didn't see it, but plenty of people mentioned it as thier invitation source. One couple had been down at the Gateway, but decided to come up to Churchill.
From what I saw on the Fox news broadcast, SLOC had quite the turn out too. Again, Patrick is a star. (All puns intended)
Joe Borgion