Photograph of a solar eclipse from the March 10, 1970 Door County Advocate
THE LAST TOTAL ECLIPSE of the sun in this country until 2024 was seen Saturday along the east coast. In Door county the eclipse reached 60% at 12:30 and was photographed by the Rev. Wallace Gaulke of Salem Lutheran church. He projected the image with an Edmund Scientific Co. three inch reflector telescope.
Courtesy of the Door County Library Newspaper Archive
[There have been other total solar eclipses visible from the United States between 1970 and 2024. Their paths are included in these maps:
https://nationaleclipse.com/maps/usa_20th_century.html and https://nationaleclipse.com/maps/usa_21st_century.html
A solar eclipse in 2099 will be total for De Pere and Two Rivers: https://theskylive.com/solar-eclipse?id=2099-09-14
Rev. Gaulke’s personal website is not online anymore, but some of the pages have been archived, including these three:
“Frederick Gaulke of Pomerania: Coming to America” & “The Gaulkes of Rio Creek.” is partly authored by Rev. Gaulke and partly derived from the 1895 “Commemorative biographical record of the counties of Brown, Kewaunee and Door, Wisconsin”:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150505223831/http://wgaulke.com/family.html
“Gaulke Crafts” (recipes)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140414052139/http://wgaulke.com/crafty.html
“New Verses for Old Hymns”
https://web.archive.org/web/20131207133720/http://wgaulke.com/diane-ads.html
Scanned copy of “Commemorative biographical record of the counties of Brown, Kewaunee and Door, Wisconsin”:
https://archive.org/details/commemorativebiobkd00jhbe/page/n3/mode/2up
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Posts about eclipses
https://doorcounty.substack.com/t/eclipses