The Great Eclipse Observation Celebration
04.08.2024 - It was an incredible day with rain and wind, and even some lightning in the early morning hours that awakened the entire village of Smithville to find the cloudy rainy day on this the day the sun and moon play peekaboo. DeKalb County Schools were called off and many families attended this unique event at Bert Driver’s Burlap Room where it is always kid-friendly and dog-friendly.
What suddenly happened is the wind died down, the rain went away, the clouds parted and we got to see the eclipse for the second time in seven years. How incredibly lucky we are to get to do it right here in the Smithville/DeKalb County/Center Hill Lake/Upper Cumberland/MIddle Tennessee/United States /North America/Planet Earth who (currently ranked #3 among planets in the preseason AP Poll).
Many people from across the region came to be with us on this special day and have Tio’s Taco Truck and Calfkiller Beers, and some groovy tunes laid down by DJ Rob! Sunglasses at Night, Here Comes the Sun, Black Hole Sun, and the Local Vibe we so often exude…how incredible that was!!! Thank you, DJ Rob, for planting the seed of this great idea which became The Great Eclipse Observation Celebration from Snow Hill, Tennessee!!
Coordinates for BDN (Longitutde 35’ 58’ 47.8”/Latitude 85’ 51’ 57.1” )
1156’ Elevation
Also, there were several children, several dogs, and some of the children were fishing and caught some bass out of the pond on eclipse day. It's pretty cool that everybody brought their sunglasses, had some libations, sat around the fire, and laughed and watched the color change from grays to black to almost beige to brown gray, back to black to gray, and the sun gave away where it was liquid. It was liquid like the clouds. The clouds were faking everyone out and it looked like it was closing up. It's closing, no, it's not, it's not going away. It’s actually still there!!! It’s a fake out and we got to almost 90%, and to see everything that happened in our path of totality, not far off from all of The BoBo Driver Family, down there in good old Wiberley, Texas.
With that said, what a great experience as an earthling to get to be here, feel the sunshine, the change in temperature, the changing sound, and to watch it all unfold in the middle of a nursery with music and beverages, children and laughter, and of course, dogs. Stellar Occasion from The Local Vibe!
“Sun is shining, the weather is sweet, yeah, Make you wanna move your dancing feet“
Bob Marley
Up next at the Harvester is Spring Songwriter Night with Sam Lewis, Judy Blank, and Cam Pierce on Friday, 4/19 (Yaya’s Food Truck on site). Stay up-to-date with all the events in the Bert Driver Network (Nursery, Burlap Room, and the Harvester) by signing up for our ‘The Local Vibe’ Newsletter - released the first Tuesday of the month, straight to your inbox!
And don’t forget the Harvester is for rent: corporate events and parties, weddings, receptions, graduations, baby showers, or whatever you’re celebrating, we host ‘em all! Contact us for more information, and check us out on Wedding Wire or The Knot!
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🎨 Lucas Antoniak
