Congrats! Location, location, location: Kansas City, You are in the path of totality!

"The hair on the back of your neck is going to stand up, and you are going to feel different things as the eclipse reaches totality. It's been described as peaceful, spiritual, exhilarating, shocking." - Brian Carlstrom, deputy associate director of the National Park Service Natural Resource Stewardship and Science Directorate. Source: CNN

"This will be like Woodstock 200 times over." - Alex Young, solar scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Source: CNN

Best Page for Solar Eclipse 2017 General Details and Viewing Party Footnotes: NASA


Links Related and Misc. -
 
August 21, 2017, Solar Eclipse. Missouri has it for this one. Kansas City details. 

• Weston, Missouri  Verna with Main Street Galleria  says they're serving breakfast on Eclipse Day. (Preview interview Aug 20. Wendy's Coffeehouse) Also adding Moonlight Mimosas,
  Moon pies and Eclipse survival kits.
  
• Solar Eclipse viewing in KC area: Kansas City Star
• This site has the exact time and length of view. Example:
  Weston, Missouri:
  Congratulations, you are in the path of totality!
  

  

  Before -- Practicing with lens 8/1/17
  Image Credit: 1/AS

  Partial phase begins on Monday August 21
  at 11:40:37 AM (Central Daylight Time)
  Total phase begins at 1:06:50 PM
  and will last for 2 minutes, 6.2 seconds.
• KC Total Eclipse Party: Facebook:
  "Everyone at the City Market will be in the path
  of totality to witness the sky show. (20.5 seconds)
  Eclipse begins just after 11:30 a.m.
  Total eclipse at 1:08 p.m.
  Kansas City saw a total solar eclipse in 1806. The next opportunity will be 2205."
  
• Heads up: "In St. Joseph, Mo., hotel rooms, RV sites, tent campsites and Airbnbs have been booked for months." Yeah, it's kind of a big deal here.
  
  
  Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article161748053.html#storylink=cpy
• Not in or near Missouri? More options: CNN 



Just a Turtle who knows how to
enjoy the Sun.
Image Credit: 2/AS

• Time is short getting prime viewing sites: USA Today
• Best option without worrying about travel or clouds in the forecast: Slooh
  
• Look up. Perfect day for the Arrival.
  (Not holding breath but curiously hopeful.)
  Astronauts: encounters with Aliens. Raw Story
• Is this a portal? Ancient Origins
  
• Board Camp Crystal Mine, home of the levitating rocks (blogged in an earlier post) is open for Unexplained Tours.
  Sign up here.
• Spooky Synchronicity? Maybe not. Suggest a telepathic afterlife check-in from Mom - who no doubt lives on in Google Street View. AOL Twilight Zone reality check.
• Are TVs the newest dinosaur? USA Today 
• Respect. One determined Woodpecker: Facebook
  
  
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  Wendy's Coffeehouse Archives. Thank you for listening and sharing!
  Image Credits: Andy Snell

Weston Missouri Ghosts score a Supermoon - 2016 Ambiance

Supermoon over Price-Loyles house in Weston, Mo
aka Daniel Boone house

“Oh, very good,' interrupted Snape, his lip curling.

'Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter.

'Ghosts are transparent.”

- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince



Couldn't have asked for better timing this year. Center stage in October: Ghosts, Orbs and a Full Supermoon. If you missed it, more Supermoons are on the way for 2016. CBS.com and Weather.com


Weston's 2016 Dining with Ghosts and Walking Ghost Tour kicked off the
first of three SOLD OUT nights with perfect fall weather.

Several Main Street shops host ghosts.
Top floor of this
building is now storage
- Basketballs can be heard on the old court.

Crisp and warm night air, light breezes
and the sound of an occasional walnut dropping. The highlight of the night: an Owl serenade.

Perennial favorite, Weston Cafe has been the scene
of some of the town's darker history. 

More recent sightings of the unexplained include
a guest from the 2015 Ghost Tour apologizing
for almost running into the woman volunteer 
who was working back in the kitchen. 

There were no volunteers working in the kitchen. 


To add a bit of background - 
tour volunteers have said the Cafe location
has a different feel to it and at least one who is said to have had a sighting chooses not to return.

Others simply prefer not to go any further than the front of the cafe. The 2015 guest had requested to use the restroom and met the kitchen "volunteer" in passing on her way out.

A new site earning a stop on the tour this year is the Weston Bend Candle Company. Stepping into the store, one is immediately immersed in a world of wonderful aromas.

The back story: Now occupying a corner, the candle store had been located in the middle of the same block. The old location still retains a very pleasant aroma hinting of its former retail incarnation.

No paranormal activity had been experienced at the prior location. Might have been due to that location being converted from an alley when the space for stores was at a premium. Different story now.

Unusual activity began shortly after the owners began moving in. While working to get the store up and running, the owner thought he saw a shadow, similar to a person crossing the room in the unoccupied front area of the store.

The movement was subtle enough he wasn't quite sure what it was he saw, except he knew whatever it was, it was an odd thing to witness in an unoccupied space. The experiences are varied and the activity continues. An eventful tour.

Weston Ghost Walk Ambiance

Great news if you missed the SOLD OUT events this year
and/or if Weston is too far for a visit,
Verna Kowertz, keeper and chronicler of all things
Weston ghost related, now has a book
detailing the haunted history of Weston, Missouri.

Order one from Weston Main Street Galleria.




Thank you to the Volunteer Ghost Tour Guides/Weston Community Theater
More info about the *Daniel Boone house: History Nut of Missouri Blog
More Missouri Haunts: Show Me Scary
Main Street Galleria on Facebook 
Plan now for Christmas in Weston - Father Christmas and a Magical Glow (from Christmas Past)
Visit WestonMo