The Great American Eclipse of 2017 (original) (raw)

In Hopkinsville, Kentucky, there was a magnificent event—and then it was all over.

Edward Steed has been contributing cartoons to The New Yorker since 2013.

I stared through my glasses at the last sliver of the sun, a neon-yellow comma, a pause before the big show. Then totality began.

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