Both our staff and our the parks and rec staff had a flood of phone calls in the past week, but with the help of our police department and the Warren Astronomical Society we all survived. Our local newspaper got some pictures.<div><br></div><div><a href="http://media.voicenews.com/2017/08/21/photos-solar-eclipse-viewing-party-in-chesterfield-township/#7">http://media.voicenews.com/2017/08/21/photos-solar-eclipse-viewing-party-in-chesterfield-township/#7</a></div><div><br></div><div>Holly Kirsten </div><div>Chesterfield Township Library<br><br>On Tuesday, August 22, 2017, ConnieJo Ozinga <<a href="mailto:cjozinga@commercelibrary.info">cjozinga@commercelibrary.info</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>What a miserable day. We had 200 pairs, and we said we would be giving them away at our eclipse viewing party beginning at 1 p.m. People started to line up at 7:30 and demanded I give them out now. They all had a sob story. Meanwhile back in the building two people are needed to answer all the phone calls about glasses. In the last week we have probably had a thousand phone calls about eclipse glasses. So I had angry people who didn't get any screaming at me from the end of line, and at least one nasty post on facebook - I had to work its not fair.<br><br></div>The people at the viewing party who had them were wonderful about sharing with those who didn't, and everyone tried out the pinhole viewing boxes.<br><br></div>After this experience I am not sure I would do this again. All anger about not enough glasses, very little appreciation.<br><br></div>It's been a long time since I spent most of my work day outside. I am glad we stocked up on bottled water to hand out.<br><br></div>Connie<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 3:16 PM, LVW Mary Russell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','lvwoperations@llcoop.org');" target="_blank">lvwoperations@llcoop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">We made it!!<br>
We received 200 pairs of glasses and only passed them out at our 2 programs.<br>
The first program was last month and 40 attended, so that left us 150 pairs<br>
for today. We held strong and did not pass any out ahead of time (whew,<br>
that was hard!).<br>
We expected maybe 100 people. We had activities such as coloring pages, word<br>
search, galaxy slime, plus moon themed snacks and of course the coveted<br>
eclipse glasses. We ended up with more than 300 in attendance with many<br>
waiting in line for 30 minutes or more to receive their glasses. We ran out<br>
in the end and the last groups had to share.<br>
The best thing about the day, besides the awesome turnout, was the fact that<br>
almost all were very respectful, calm, and willing to share.<br>
I hope your day went as well as ours!<br>
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Mary Russell<br>
Assistant Director<br>
Tamarack District Library<br>
832 S Lincoln Ave, Box 469<br>
Lakeview, MI 48850<br>
989-352-6274<br>
<a href="http://tamaracklibrary.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">tamaracklibrary.org</a><br>
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