I saw the eclipse from Salem in Oregon. It was my first total eclipse and it gave me shivers up my spine! It was other worldly and the light from it was like nothing I've ever experienced.
I helped with a project called Citizen CATE (
http://citizencate.org). We had 68 telescopes manned by volunteers (non scientists) spread across the length of totality, about 100km apart. As the eclipse passed from one site onto the next, we captured images of the corona in a sort of eclipse relay race. The telescopes we used were able to capture identical, high resolution data, meaning that we can now conduct scientific studies of the innermost layer of the atmosphere, a region very difficult to observe otherwise.