2017 Solar Eclipse in Kansas

By Kaye McIntyre

Published August 13, 2017 at 5:00 AM CDT

August 13, 2017: where will you be on Monday, August 21st? Northeast Kansas will be in the path of totality for the 2017 solar eclipse. Find out what to expect with KU Astronomy Professor Barbara Anthony-Twarog, and how the event will be marked at the University of Kansas and elsewhere. Also, Planetary Radio will look back at the Solar Eclipse of 1878 with David Barron, the author of American Eclipse: The Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon."

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Kaye McIntyre

Kaye starts her weekends the same way you do: with Weekend Edition, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, This American Life, and The Moth Radio Hour. She started at Kansas Public Radio in 2001; in 2006, she became the producer of our weekly public affairs program, KPR Presents, which changed its name in 2025 to Prairie Journal. In her spare time, she loves to read, travel, and attend theater.

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