
Eclipse watchers gaze up at the total solar eclipse from a lakehouse on Indian Lake on April 8, 2024. Although the moon passed over the sun around 3 p.m., the sky appeared more like dusk.

Brian McCann, of German Village, gazes up at a total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, from a lakehouse on Indian Lake in Logan County. This is the first time a total solar eclipse has passed over Ohio in more than 200 years.

From left, Teresa Martin, Jennifer Martin, Jessica Bryce and Jonathan Martin try out their handmade solar eclipse glasses holders at Indian Lake on April 8, 2024. The Martins, of Cincinnati, have a lakehouse in the area and wanted to watch the eclipse from the shore.

Monica Bricker, left, and Lori Hendrix, right, prepare to watch the total solar eclipe at Indian Lake on April 8, 2024. Two two drove about an hour and a half from Columbus into the zone of totality .

Students for Life of America President Kristan Hawkins talks with Ohio State University students about abortion on the Oval on Oct. 4, 2022. Hawkins visited Ohio State as part of her "Make Abortion Illegal Again" college tour.
Amber Decker, a volunteer with Indivisible Central Ohio, helps register an Ohio State University student Oct. 4 for Tuesday's midterm elections. Decker and other volunteers came out to help register students during Students for Life of American President Kristan Hawkins' "Make Abortion Illegal Again" college tour.

McKinley Roza, an Ohio State University freshman studying anthropology and linguistitcs passes out handmade pro-abortion patches at National Day of Student Action on Oct. 6, 2022.
From left to right, are Celeste Feingold, Nancy Jackson and Adrianne Harloe — all from Hamilton, Ohio — take a selfie at Fort Ancient in Oregonia for their annual Summer Solstice Sunrise Wednesday, June 21, 2017.
Kayden Edwards, 14, plays the bongos as she practices a song performed in Quechua, a language indigenous to the Andes Mountains region in South America. At MAS ALLA, a five-day summer program for high schoolers at Ohio State, students are taught Spanish through Andean culture, music and language.
Damaria Massey, 18, practices milling a piece of metal at Career and Technology Education Centers of Licking County while machine trades instructor Noah Cooksey watches on. Licking County Job and Family Services' Mobile Manufacturing Crew helps expose young people to manufacturing jobs in the county Aug. 15, 2018.
Jubilee DeLong, 10, and Tabitha Manley, 12, of Newark, tag a Monarch butterfly at The Dawes Arboretum on Sept. 14, 2019. Participants helped tag 20 Monarch butterflies for release.
A tagged Monarch butterfly collects pollen at The Dawes Arboretum. Participants helped tag 20 Monarch butterflies for release as part of the center's Sustainable Landscape Series on Sept. 14, 2019.
Linda Gaylor, of Canal Winchester, releases a Monarch butterfly at The Daws Arboretum Friday afternoon. Participants helped tag 20 Monarch butterflies for release as part of the center's Sustainable Landscape Series
Fish sculptures made of salvaged metal were created by artist David Griesmyer welded in his Malta, Ohio metal fabrication studio. Griesmyer donated the three fish sculptures to the Ohio Art Corridor, Oct. 30, 2018.
Jim Savage points out where a tree poacher illegally cut down trees near his Ross County tree farm. With timber prices rising, timber theft is increasing in Ohio.
Several volunteers walk by the stage May 16, 2019 at the Davis Auditorim in Lancaster in preparation for its grand reopening on May 19. The building closed in 2005 because of structural concerns.
A volunteer walks into the prayer room at the Davis Auditorium in Lancaster May 16, 2019.
Ray Coats rests for a moment and takes in the scene at the Davis Auditorium in Lancaster May 16, 2019. The 81-year-old volunteer has been helping preserve the building for more than a year.





