By Linda Tancs

The All-Sports Museum at Penn State University celebrates the athletic history and heritage of the university, one of the top schools in the world. Located at the southwest corner of Beaver Stadium, the museum devotes the downstairs exhibits to its outdoor sports and the upstairs exhibits to its indoor sports. Overall, the facility features archival images and memorabilia from 34 sports played at the varsity level at Penn State, including 31 active sports and three that have been discontinued. The site also devotes a fair amount of space to the history of its mascot, the Nittany Lion (a mountain lion), which made its first public appearance in 1922 at a game between Penn State and Syracuse.

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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.