In April 2024, many people made their way to see a rare Solar Eclipse. One small city by the name of Paducah was lucky enough to be in the area of totality for both the 2017 and 2024 solar eclipse. Paducah, nicknamed the Atomic City, is a small city in Western Kentucky with a population of 27,000 people. It’s also home to the last Uranium enrichment plant in the U.S. that helped fuel the Atomic Age. Paducah tends to stand as an unspoken poster child of small town America almost forgotten by the country that capitalized off of it. Tens of thousands of people flocked to Paducah and its surrounding area to see the natural phenomena. These selections are from that day where Paducah was again a part of something much bigger and brought to the attention of the nation.
