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Western Kentucky Center Stage for 2017 Solar Eclipse

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In 2017 the U.S. will get its first full solar eclipse that will sweep across the entire country since 1918.Western Kentucky, specifically Hopkinsville, is in the path for best viewing.

Hopkinsville tourism officials, educators and amateur astronomers are already preparing for the event that some predict could draw thousands to the community for a two minute show.   Hopkinsville Community College Physics Professor Scott Bain is one of the educators preparing for the event. He spoke with Chad Lampe about the eclipse.

Chad Lampe, a Poplar Bluff, Missouri native, was raised on radio. He credits his father, a broadcast engineer, for his technical knowledge, and his mother for the gift of gab. At ten years old he broke all bonds of the FCC and built his own one watt pirate radio station. His childhood afternoons were spent playing music and interviewing classmates for all his friends to hear. At fourteen he began working for the local radio stations, until he graduated high school. He earned an undergraduate degree in Psychology at Murray State, and a Masters Degree in Mass Communication. In November, 2011, Chad was named Station Manager in 2016.
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