Totality awesome: Those who trekked to southern Illinois for eclipse found it worth the trip
— August 29, 2017“Seeing a partial eclipse bears the same relation to seeing a total eclipse as kissing a man does to marrying him,” wrote the American writer Annie Dillard in her 1982 essay, “Total Eclipse.” Some who read Dillard’s essay in preparation for the 2017 eclipse, followed her siren call. Libraries around McHenry County, and beyond, ran…