Birthplace of Modern Astronomy Shuttered

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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