World’s Largest Popcorn Ball

By Linda Tancs

The world’s largest popcorn ball is located in Sac City, Iowa. The colossal structure measures 8 feet in diameter and tops out at a whopping 9,370 pounds. It’s displayed in its own custom shed at the edge of the Sac City Museum Village. While you’re there, be on the lookout for historic barns and corn cribs painted with colorful 8-foot-square quilt blocks. You can pick up a map of quilt locations at convenience stores in the county.

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Billed as the Great North American Eclipse, a total solar eclipse will cross North America on April 8, 2024, passing over Mexico, the United States and Canada. The path of the eclipse begins in Mexico, entering the United States in Texas, and traveling through Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. The eclipse will enter Canada in Southern Ontario, and continue through Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton. This will be the last time any solar eclipse will be visible within the United States until 2045. 

Be prepared! So long as supplies last, you can purchase eclipse glasses and other accessories, like a phone app and photo filter, from American Paper Optics, a NASA-approved manufacturer. The link in the preceding sentence is an affiliate link, which means that if you click on the link and purchase merchandise from the page, then I may receive a small commission.