A little thing like a pandemic will not stop the march of history as Northeast Hamilton Elementary School students will present their annual Living Wax Museum on Thursday, May 13 from 6-7 p.m. at the NEH walking track.

According to Laura Seiser, 5th and 6th Grade Reading/Social Studies Teacher at NEH Elementary, the event will be held outside to accommodate social distancing with the school’s walking track as the venue for the event.

The walking track will not only provide excellent accommodations for social distancing, it will allow visitors to easily flow through the exhibits while viewing the work of the students as they depict their chosen historical figure, she said.

Like so many events during the Covid pandemic, the scheduled date for the Living Wax Museum has been dependent upon favorable weather, explained Seiser.

“I think the new staging for the event due to Covid will work out fine as long as the wind stays calm,” said Seiser.

The students have been working since January to research their historical figure. Then they developed a costume, timeline, brief life summary and a display, explained Seiser. Twenty two people will be portrayed during the event.

“I just firmly believe the students deserve an authentic audience to perform live in front of because they have worked so hard on this project” said Seiser. “We will do everything we can to make that happen!”

Historical figures the public can expect to see represented are basketball legend Kobe Bryant, football superstar Tom Brady, martial artists Ronda Rousey and Ryan Doyle as well as all-around female athlete Babe Didrickson.

Also featured will be 15-year-old Boone County heroine Kate Shelley, who saved the lives of train passengers by traversing a washed-out Honey Creek bridge in order to alert authorities of the danger to on-coming trains.

Illustrators will also make an appearance this year. Cartoonist Charles Schultz of Peanuts fame will be featured along with Dav Pilkey, who pens “The Adventures of Captain Underpants” and “Dog Man”.

Historical and political figures to be featured are Abraham Lincoln, John Lewis, Cesar Chavez, Pocahontas, and explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark.

Scientists and inventors who changed the course of past and present history will also be recognized – Albert Einstein, Elon Musk and Steve Jobs.

Diarist Anne Frank will also be portrayed. The German-Dutch girl of Jewish heritage became famous only after her death when her diary was published. It detailed her family’s hiding from Nazi officials during Adolph Hitler’s reign.

Fiction writer, J.K. Rowling, who introduced the world to Harry Potter and Muggles, will also be portrayed.

Entertainment personalities will also be featured. They include Selena Perez, who introduced Tejano music to mass audiences worldwide, actress Emma Watson and “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” star Audrey Hepburn who later became the renown Unicef Goodwill Ambassador.

In the event of unfavorable weather, the event will be moved to the NEH gymnasium.

It is requested that everyone attending, please wear a mask.