Eclipses Past and Present with Matt White

Place: The Glove Factory—201 Dallas Street Mt. Vernon, Texas
Date & Time: April 8, 2024 7:00 PM
Program: Eclipses Past and Present with Matt White Reception with refreshments provided by your FCHA board to follow.

Eclipses: Past and Present with Matt White After you’ve witnessed 2024’s total solar eclipse, join the Franklin County Historical Association as we welcome historian and naturalist

Matt White of Paris Junior College—and the author of Prairie Time and Birds of Northeast Texas-—in a conversation about “Eclipses: Past and Present.” Following a short presentation Matt will welcome audience impressions of the eclipse.

Matt is no stranger to Mt Vernon. He has spent years studying the local flora and fauna and has spoken here numerous times. He is an occasional contributor to the Franklin County Historical Association Newsletter where he writes a column about human and natural history and how the two impact each other. Eclipses are an interesting example of this phenomenon as well. For millennia humans

have watched in utter amazement as day turns into night during the middle of day and the effects it has on the natural (and human) world.

For most who witness an eclipse, it is profound experience. We hope you’ll join us to share your story and to hear Matt speak. The event is scheduled for 7:00 PM Monday, April 8, 2024, at the Glove Factory in beautiful downtown Mt. Vernon; it’s FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Sandwiches, cookies and lemonade will be served—so bring your family and invite your friends—and join the conversation. Afterward—weather permitting—join us for a short sky watching party in the Glove Factory parking lot.

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