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[jazz music] 

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I'm Louise Wadsworth. - And I'm Will Wadsworth.

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We're very interested in

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creating events around the eclipse.

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and so we decided to the Lunar Ball
to celebrate everything Celestial.

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Will does weddings and events all the time

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but this is the first time we've done
one for the community

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on this scale.

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It's taken two weeks to get everything

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ready from a cold field to a tent
that's ready for this party tonight

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and we're very excited.

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We were thrilled to see how 
many people signed up to come

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and pay to come have fun.

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So get dressed up,

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I mean, obviously,
we're wearing some black tie and

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there's so many great dresses and people
are wearing - women are wearing crowns.

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and it's just really fun.

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People came out to have a nice time
and we're really thrilled about that.

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The invitation said dress celestial,
formal and celestial

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so I think people really did that.

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[jazz music fades]

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[drum beats]

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[band playing “The Middle” by Jimmy Eat World]

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We live in New Jersey
and we drove up six hours to be here.

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I mean, the estate is beautiful.

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It's, it's a beautiful night to celebrate

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and it looks like a beautiful community

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and I'm so happy to be here.

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Looking at everyone's outfits

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has been so much fun.

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Like, I love all the headpieces
and jewelry and stuff.

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Etsy.

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You already had this.

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- This is Etsy.

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I had this because I'm fabulous.

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I got this on Amazon.

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I thought anything glittery would work, right?
- After the pandemic

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when things - days
were just blending together

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it's really fun to do something memorable.

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- It's just an experience that you can't

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you can't create it at any other time.

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It happens to you. So.

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[band playing “Night Fever” by Bee Gees]

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[crowd cheering and clapping]

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[cheering and music fades]

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[playful music fades in]

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Okay,

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today we’re having the

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the lead up to the solar eclipse,
of course, and we’ve probably all studied it

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a little bit and understand
what's going to happen.

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We opened up the property

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in hopes that people would come
and just enjoy some time together.

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I think it’s a supposedly a very cool thing
to experience with other people.

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A lot of local people have come over here
from the - from the village

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because they can get a clear
view of the sky here.

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It's just sort of nice to be able
to open it up for that.

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So apparently scientifically there's
things that happen around a full eclipse

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like this that are memorable,
and I don't know what they're going to be.

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So maybe “oohs” and “ahs” from the people.

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Sometimes people cry.

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It's such an awesome experience for it
suddenly to get dark during the day

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and then come back to light.

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We got to meet really cool people
from Baltimore.

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Yeah. -Just here to check it out.
Here for the eclipse.

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[laughing]

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Yeah,

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we are a little sad that the cloud cover,
but apparently we'll be able to see

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a shadow come across
the valley, is our understanding.

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I've heard it supposed to be silent,

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like with the animals,
they get very still.

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That's what I've heard.

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So we'll see.

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I guess we'll see.

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Based on Charlie.

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[birds chirping]

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[sentimental music fades in]

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It was awesome.

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Wow. Hard to put to words.

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It was so dark.

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I didn't expect
it really to get that dark.

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That it was really like nighttime.

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And to look out over the whole valley and see that. 

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It was nighttime.

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The streetlights went on. 
- I thought I'd be disappointed

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that we weren't
actually going to see the eclipse.

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But no, I wasn't disappointed.

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Yeah. It was wonderful. Yeah. Yeah.

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I'm still a little bit, uh

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I don't know.

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Sort of take it all in.

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It's hard to believe that can happen.

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- Can't imagine if we didn't know
what was happening, how you would feel.

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[sentimental music fades]