When Patrick Moriarty first began teaching earth science in 1978, he promised his ninth-grade students they would reunite for the next eclipse that would pass their hometown near Rochester, New York.
On Monday, about 100 of Moriarty's former students gathered in the driveway of his Brighton home to watch the sky grow darker as the moon journeyed over the sun.
Moriarty invited all of the earth science classes he taught over the next 16 years, telling students to circle the date and keep their eyes peeled for a message from him in the future, likely in the local newspaper.
The former teacher ended up making an event on Facebook in 2022 to begin planning for the celestial speculation.
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