Monday's closing of the renowned Yerkes Observatory after 121 years hits Kate Meredith professionally and personally.
As education outreach director there, Meredith has scrambled over the last few months to find a temporary new home for the program, which has been located at the ornate observatory for about 20 years.
And since she and her family live in a house on the bucolic Yerkes site on the shore of Geneva Lake, she has to move now too.
“When I stop moving some days,” she said one hectic afternoon, “I just fall asleep.”
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