Dear Texas Rural Education Association,

The SMART (Surface Magnetic Assessment in Real-Time) Project at UCLA is inviting rural schools to participate in our research project of Earth’s magnetic fields and space weather using ground-based magnetometers. We are looking to partner with high schools across the country to collect data on the upcoming solar eclipse.

I remember how hot it was in July of 1997.

We were hauling and unloading all our worldly possessions, including a one-year-old child, at the old Hafer place on the edge of town.