By Linda Tancs

Wheatland, or the James Buchanan House, is a brick, Federal-style house once owned by James Buchanan, the 15th president of the United States. He bought the home in 1848 and ran his 1856 presidential campaign from the mansion. He lived there until his death in 1868. Both floors of the home are open to tours that run on the hour. The grounds also include two surviving outbuildings (a privy and a smoke and ice house) as well as tree and conifer specimens. Located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the home is a National Historic Landmark and is listed on the Pennsylvania State Register of Historic Places and the National Register of Historic Places.

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Billed as the Great North American Eclipse, a total solar eclipse will cross North America on April 8, 2024, passing over Mexico, the United States and Canada. The path of the eclipse begins in Mexico, entering the United States in Texas, and traveling through Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. The eclipse will enter Canada in Southern Ontario, and continue through Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton. This will be the last time any solar eclipse will be visible within the United States until 2045. 

Be prepared! So long as supplies last, you can purchase eclipse glasses and other accessories, like a phone app and photo filter, from American Paper Optics, a NASA-approved manufacturer. The link in the preceding sentence is an affiliate link, which means that if you click on the link and purchase merchandise from the page, then I may receive a small commission.