Monday, August 21, 2017 2:06 pm

Thousands of people gathered at various places around Woodbury and Cannon County on Monday afternoon as the moon blotted out the sun in the first full-blown solar eclipse to sweep the U.S. from coast to coast in nearly a century. The shadow -- a corridor just 60 to 70 miles (96 to 113 kilometers) wide -- came ashore in Oregon and then began traveling diagonally across the heartland to South Carolina, with darkness lasting only around two to three minutes in any one spot. The next total solar eclipse in the U.S. will be in 2024. The next coast-to-coast one will not be until 2045.