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ON THE GREEN: ECLIPSING EXPECTATIONS

partial-eclipse-082117-27-500x375-7920011partial-eclipse-082117-10-220x165-3738471An historic total eclipse of the sun — well, partial eclipse, in this part of the United States — drew summer vacationers and office workers alike out into cloying heat and humidity across the Greater Red Bank Green Monday.

On sidewalks in downtown Red Bank and the parking lot of the Monmouth County Library’s Eastern Branch in Shrewsbury, among other locales, they donned safety spectacles, craned their necks and oohed and ahhed throughout the slow-motion celestial event, the first coast-to-coast eclipse in America since 1918.

Check out our photos of the skywatchers below. (Photos by John T. Ward and Trish Russoniello. Click to enlarge)

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Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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