Twice Blessed: Fort Erie’s beloved Burdett Sisler celebrates 109 and witnesses his second total solar eclipse. - Fort Erie Observer

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Twice Blessed: Fort Erie’s beloved Burdett Sisler celebrates 109 and witnesses his second total solar eclipse. - Fort Erie Observer

Elizabeth Mason, FEO, April 25, 2024, VOL. 5 ISSUE 17  (Elizabeth is from Fort Erie and is going into her third year of Journalism at Carleton University in Ottawa.) Most people only see one total solar eclipse in their life, if they’re lucky, but Sisler has seen two. First in 1925 when he was ten years old, and now again at 108. Sisler remembers his first total solar eclipse fondly. “When I was a kid, I was standing on the street but they didn’…