Hilltown Festival Music, Meteorites, and solar system to scale

Peter Sherff and I, ably assisted by our talented wives Kendra and Cathy, had a Arunah Hill booth at the Hilltown Festival at the Cummington Fairgrounds.

The two nearby stages filled the day with great music as we talked to a steady stream of hilltown folks... many who knew all about our hill.

Peter gave out meteorites to kids of all ages, in his continuing quest to give everyone in Western Massachusetts their own piece of the sky.

Peter and I also set up a scale model solar system walk, with the sun shrunken down to volleyball size. The planets were marked across the fairgrounds with flags and scale model planets. Earth was a tiny bead thirty paces away... Jupiter a fishing float over 100 years away. Uranus was at the far end of the parking lot, over 1/4 mile distant, so we had to "double back" to place Neptune.

Neither Peter or I had the drive to continue another 300 yards to place tiny Pluto.

A half dozen families took in the solar system up to Saturn, and one or two may have even made it to Uranus.

Rains held off to late afternoon, we packed up under a moderate rain and enjoyed the final music acts of the day under the stage tents.

Thanks to Kendra and Cathy!