ST. ALBANS — About a half-hour after totality, a crowd that had swelled to well over a thousand people at Taylor Park in downtown St. Albans was thinning out as people began to head home. A stream of cars was making its way steadily south toward Interstate 89 along nearby Main Street.
In the park, some people were still keeping watchful eyes on the sun — among them Jeri Metayer, 61, of Milton, who had come up to St. Albans to experience totality with her daughter and two young grandsons. Metayer had attached her protective glasses to a paper plate decorated like the sun, fashioning a sort of colorful eclipse mask.
Seeing the totality just minutes before was “magical,” the hospital nurse said.
“To be able to sit here with these glasses on — and watch that moon completely cover the sun, and it become total darkness — was just breathtaking,” she said.
