A highly anticipated event seen through the eyes, camera lenses, even cereal boxes!

“It’s pretty amazing,” Hailey Mauler who was watching the eclipse said. “I’ve never seen anything like it before. It looked like the moon was biting into the sun.”

The great American eclipse was a sight and experience for just about everyone.

“At 2:38p.m. everyone is looking at the sky and we’re all sharing the glasses back and forth frantically,” Melanie Ramsey who organized the viewing party at the Hollidaysburg Public Library said.

Melissa Ruiz came all the way from New York City. She couldn’t find solar eclipse glasses anywhere until she came to Hollidaysburg.

“I was googling Target, Walmart, and Best Buy and they were all sold out of solar eclipse glasses,” Ruiz said.

The rare event was so popular the library couldn’t keep up with demand. They even had to cut the shades in half. However, they’ll eventually have to go in the trash anyway because you can’t use these glasses for the next solar eclipse in 7 years.

“These are only good for about 3 years,” Ramsey said. “They’re made with some petroleum products so they degrade over time.”

For this time around it was an occasion that brought people together.

“I think it’s fascinating,” Destiny Wagner said. “I’ve never seen anything like it.”

A giant science and history lesson all in one.

If you have glasses to recycle you can drop them off at the Hollidaysburg Public Library. They’ll be sending them overseas for other countries having eclipses in the next 3 years.