The doctor’s office in Peak - called the Pinner Clinic - temporarily closed to let its employees watch the eclipse. A group of people dove into the river and watched the eclipse from a series of rocks rising out of the water. The crowd swelled to more than 100 as the moon began shadowing the sun. Several groups of people also walked across the railroad bridge over the Broad River to buy refreshments at Peak Pharmacy.Īmong the crowd were people who traveled just a few miles and a few hours. Meanwhile, eclipse watchers filled the Broad River bridge. The club’s members, which included Peak Pharmacy founder Joe Smith, jokingly said they planned to crash every eclipse-watching party in town. Members of the club said a local church planned to host an eclipse-watching party. A few of the half dozen club members I spoke with said they hadn’t purchased glasses. They weren’t particularly excited about the eclipse. How’s that for southern hospitality?īy the time I talked to the coffee club, most of its members had left. Dyches said the store serves customers in Newberry County and Fairfield County, where the nuclear plant is located.ĭyches introduced me to the Peak coffee club, which invited me to a barbecue chicken dinner the Sunday before Labor Day. Mary Jo Dyches, whose family runs Peak Pharmacy, said business could be affected by the halt to construction at the nuclear plant. Finishing the project had become “prohibitively expensive,” the company said. Summer Nuclear Station lost their jobs when South Carolina Electric and Gas and Santee Cooper halted construction of the project. Members of the Peak coffee club, which meets every morning except Sunday, said the halt of construction on a nearby nuclear power plant would have a larger effect on local business than the additional visitors buying refreshments at the pharmacy, which fills an average of 200 prescriptions per day.Įarlier this summer, thousands of people building two nuclear reactors at the Virgil C.
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