In the months ahead we are prioritizing Vermont's upcoming total eclipse.
We continue to sell our trout fishing guides, and the eclipse guide
Additional Information for Press
Peter Shea FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wind Knot Publishing, Burlington, VT
802-233-3655
Just Published!
Vermont’s Total Solar Eclipse April 8, 2024: Event Guide & Souvenir
Peter Shea, Author / Editor
12 pages; 5.5” X 8.5” format; ISBN 979-8-218-14865-2; $12.95 retail
“It’s wonderful for a rare astronomical event to be something we can all enjoy together as a community and pass on the experience to the next generation. Vermont is right in the path of totality for the eclipse and should see quite a show. I hope you can experience this event with your friends and family in 2024!”
John O’Meara, Deputy Director & Chief Scientist, Keck Observatory, Hawaii
Vermont Eclipse is the Newest from Wind Knot Publishing
Eat your hearts out, Boston, Providence, Hartford, New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C. On April 8, 2024. It’s Burlington, and all of northern Vermont for that matter, that will experience a total solar eclipse. It has been nearly a hundred years since Vermont has experienced a total solar eclipse, and it will be more than another fifty years before it happens again. For a state that can draw tens of thousands to a Phish concert, we will see hundreds of thousands of visitors taking in this sight.
The booklet includes:
· A pair of Official 802 Solar Glasses and instructions for safe viewing
· Timetables for two dozen Vermont cities and towns (length, start and stop timings)
· A commemorative page for family, friends, and other eclipse visitors to record their signatures and comments, memorializing the event
· A clear and simple explanation of a solar eclipse, and a brief history of this phenomenon, including Vermont’s last total solar eclipse in 1932
· Guidance to various visual optical effects: “the diamond ring” and “Baily’s Beads”
· QR codes to link to the National Solar Observatory’s interactive solar eclipse simulator, for an eclipse simulation, at any location in Vermont
· QR codes to Vermont eclipse activities and national science resources
Editor/Author's Statement
I suppose it seems odd that someone who is apparently obsessed with trout fishing (given that my last seven books were all exclusively on this subject) should suddenly go so far off topic as to focus on an “eclipse.” Why?
The short answer is excitement. In my home state, this will be the only total eclipse of my lifetime, and the idea of previewing this event to Vermonters and our visitors appealed to me. I have had a long-term love affair with maps and geography, and for me this event is geographic fireworks and cotton candy!
Peter Shea
Wind Knot Publishing
Author’s Biography
Peter Shea (age 76, born Holyoke, Mass.) came to Vermont in 1965, to attend and graduate from St. Michael’s College in 1969. Except for attending graduate school at UMass and service in the Peace Corps, he has stayed since. In the late '70s he completed graduate coursework at the University of Vermont’s Geography Department, where he also worked as a Teaching Assistant in the Cartography Lab.
An “angling geographer,” Shea has chased trout with a fly for more than sixty years. In 1980, he was a founding partner of Northern Cartographic, Inc. In that capacity he co-wrote and published numerous books and maps on trout fishing, Vermont travel, and geography. These notably included the first road atlas to label all of Vermont’s backroads by name, and Access America: An Atlas and Guide to the National Parks for Visitors with Disabilities. The latter won the American Library Association’s award of “Best Reference” in 1990, as well as the American Express Mark of Innovation in 1991, besting that year’s entries by Avis and Minolta corporations, among others. Northern Cartographic was recognized in Time Magazine, when it published the first map of Moscow, after the fall of the Soviet Union.
During his twenty-year career at Vermont PBS his books were published by New England Press and Headwater Books. Upon “retirement” he established Wind Knot Publishing, a one-man publishing operation. He has authored and published seven books under this imprint: Vermont Trout Ponds: A Personal Selection, Commentary, and True Stories; Long Trail Trout: Backcountry Fly Fishing Adventures from Vermont to Montana, and Beyond; Vermont’s Trophy Trout Waters: An Atlas and Guide (two editions); Collateral Trout: A Vermonter’s Angling Memoirs and Fishy Tales; The NEW Atlas of Vermont Trout Ponds: A GPS-Compatible Guidebook; Vermont Trout Hikes: A Guide to its Backwoods Ponds; and, with co-author Bob Shannon, Vermont Trout Streams: A Fly Angler’s Guide to the Best. He lives with his wife, Carol, in Burlington.
