<p>The summer I finished middle school 60 other kids and I got to watch a total solar eclipse at summer camp. Or not watch it I should maybe say, for fear of burning our retinas; The counselors were told to corral us all into the camp dining hall for the duration.</p><p>This event took place on July 20th a hundred years ago as it now seems and it popped into my head on that same date this year last Saturday in other words.</p><p>The memory was so vivid: I saw the gravel road we walked along to get inside the dining hall; saw the wildflowers of high summer nodding in the breeze; saw again the big posters I was making in the camp's little theatre where in two days time we would hold the big Team Party.. (I was Captain of the Gold Team and had talked the Captain of the Green team into making a huge production of the whole thing, painting oversize images of Warner Brothers and Disney cartoons on poster board.</p><p>Back then my bangs kept flipping up like window shades; there was no stopping them. I didn't look a thing like those teen movies stars with their long straight hair, and not in summer especially what with the twice-daily swimming periods you couldn't get out of.</p><p><a href="http://www.hollandsentinel.com/community/blogs/marotta/x1905496105/Time-Slips-Eclipse">Keep reading...</a></p>