The programs are being offered free with admission.
PORTLAND, Maine — One doesn’t need to be in the path of totality to have an exciting eclipse experience on Monday, April 8.
For instance, Portland will witness 96.4 percent totality in the sky. There are things to do on the ground leading up to it as well. At the Children’s Museum & Theater of Maine, staff are preparing eclipse-themed arts and crafts projects, running all weekend and Monday morning, and all are included with admission.
Visitors Program Associate Nolan Ellsworth demonstrated a simple eclipse drawing, placing a circular piece of paper on top of a larger paper, and tracing the edge of the circle with a pastel chalk pencil, smudging the fine line to replicate the sun’s rays extending…
