On March 7, 1970, I witnessed a total eclipse when I was 10 years old. I was living in Rockville Centre, on Long Island, in New York. The eclipse actually was total over the island of Nantucket, but it was about 98% where I was.These maps show the path of that eclipse.

The March 7, 1970 eclipse and the April 8, 2024 eclipse are actually related by the Saros eclipse prediction calendar. The 2 eclipses are part of Saros 139 and they are separated in time by 54 years and 1 month . Not that many people get to see 2 eclipses from the same Saros but I am one of them. Within the saros cycles there is another important unit called the Exeligmos. "An exeligmos is a period of 54 years, 33 days that can be used to predict successive eclipses with similar properties and location. For a solar eclipse, after every exeligmos a solar eclipse of similar characteristics will occur in a location close to the eclipse before it." (This quotation is from a wikipedia article about "Exiligmos". Thank you wikipedia!!)