The local SCA group threw an “I survived the world’s end” event the nearest weekend, and a bunch of friends from Minneapolis drove up to watch, and enjoy together.
We watched from a city park, with our welder’s glass handy; when totality hit, all the birds who had been singing and chirping about this oddly-timed twilight all shushed at once… began peeping again slowly, and again at the “diamond ring” (when it comes out of totality), they all hushed! again.