Using 'GPS' To View the Eclipse

Some of You May Have What You Need Stowed Way in the Back of a Locker

Nowadays, I probably would be suspected of being a terrorist. I was standing in the middle of the Market Basket parking lot in Seabrook, New Hampshire, looking through a strange device at the May 10, 1994 solar eclipse.

If it were today, and police asked what I was holding, I would tell them it was not a weapon, just a Davis Mark 25. No need to draw add…