Students living through a pandemic study another

A group of Jefferson High School students, living through an historic pandemic of their own, was given the opportunity this spring to explore a similar health crisis just a century ago. 

In partnership with Cody Ottman’s junior history class, the Jefferson County Museum in Clancy is set to reveal posters created to illustrate the history of the Spanish Flu. In the exhibit, titled, “Spanish Flu 1918,” students explored that pandemic through their own in-depth research.  

“It was an idea the museum had and we kind of batted it around a little bit,” said Paul Backlund,  chairman for the Jefferson County Museum and Cultural Preservation Board,  “I talked to folks at the Heritage Center in Boulder… I talked with our current director, Melody [Pesta]. I asked “what do you think of this idea?” and as a board, we decided to go forward with this as a contribution to the distance learning that the kids were having to do.”