It was the winter of 1918. A second, deadly wave of an influenza pandemic was making its way through Livingston County and across the United States. In a Dansville newspaper, an ominous cartoon appeared: the Grim Reaper, holding a calendar, was switching the year from 1918 to 1919. The cartoon, historian David Pomplas said, should the psychological toll that the 1918 flu pandemic was taking on people, even those in rural areas where social distancing was working as survival rates rising, while infection rates declines. Pomplas will revisit that pandemic in a series of online presentations for the Livingston County Historical Society. The series begins Jan. 9 and will continue for five consecutive Saturdays.