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Brandon is going to LIVE a 1918 pandemic Christmas By: Colin Slark
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One hundred and two years ago, the people of Brandon had to deal with a familiar problem: getting ready for Christmas in the middle of a global pandemic.
Though the circumstances weren’t the same as during the current COVID-19 pandemic, the Spanish Flu saw Brandonites have to come to grips with keeping things clean, dealing with gathering bans and following public health orders.
ABOVE: Brandon’s schools were closed from mid-October 1918 to Dec. 30 of the same year during the Spanish Flu epidemic. This excerpt from a Dec. 31, 1918 Brandon Sun article said that classes were well attended on the first day back.