Dennis Cassia, 72, who now lives in Monroe, and Andy Sajor were self-described astronomy nerds in high school growing up in New York. The duo even built their own aluminum domed observatory in the backyard of Cassia’s Westchester home, according to a story by Monica Sandreczki for NPR News. The friends trekked 600 miles to Kinston, N.C., with their families to see their first solar eclipse in 1970, and they watched this year’s eclipse at Clinton Community College together during a weekend trip, when Cassia and his wife, Kim, visited Sajor at his home in Plattsburgh, N.Y., on Lake Champlain. … Continue reading Amid a solar eclipse, a friendship shines through