On April 8th 2024, many North Americans made their way to see the moon cross between the Earth and the Sun for a rare Solar Eclipse. One small city by the name of Paducah was lucky enough to be in the area of totality for both the 2017 and 2024 solar eclipse. Paducah, nicknamed the Atomic City, is a small city in western Kentucky bordered by the Ohio and Tennessee rivers, with a population of roughly 27,000 people. It is also home to the last Uranium enrichment plant in the United States, the plant was dedicated to uranium enrichment to be used in nuclear power plants, to fuel military reactors, and nuclear weapons.

Though the city is rarely discussed at a national level, it still attracts attention and funds due its history. As recent as 2019, 314 million dollars were allocated to the clean up through an act of legislation. Paducah tends to stand as an unspoken poster child of small town America almost forgotten by the country that capitalized off of it.

In April 2024 tens of thousands of people flocked to Paducah and its surrounding area to experience the eclipse, where the city hosted a festival celebrating its second (solar) eclipse in the past ten years. These selections are from that day where Paducah was once again a part of something so much bigger and brought to the attention of the nation.