Anticipation is building in Vermont for the upcoming total solar eclipse — when the moon will completely block the sun and put much of Vermont in shadow for several minutes. East Barnard resident Floyd Van Alstyne, who is 104, remembers the last time it happened in Vermont in 1932.
Floyd Van Alstyne and his wife, Marjorie, on their farm in East Barnard. Van Alstyne, 104, will get to experience a"once-in-a-lifetime" solar eclipse for a second time in Vermont in April.
Ninety-three years later, he lives just a few miles away in the same hilltop farmhouse he bought in 1945, two weeks after getting home from World War II. Today, at 104, he uses a wheelchair to get around. He and his wife of 76 years still own about 180 acres, including a line of trees he points to out the back window.
“I was an ox teamster skidding logs out of the woods,” he explained. “I didn't know, had no idea I was gonna buy it then,” he said of the land he was clearing. "I don't know. We didn't think much about it y’know ... not like they do now. We thought about minding their own business I guess,” he said with a laugh.
“All I can say is that it was pretty near dark," he recalled."But it wasn’t that dark. Like early, early morning, evening, you know.”
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