"I had a little bird.

Its name was Enza.

I opened up the window,

And in flew Enza."

A childhood chant heard on the playgrounds throughout America during the Influenza of 1918. To this day, the influenza "virus" of 1918 remains a mystery. It spread with alarming speed across the country and, after it ran its deadly course, the pandemic had taken more than 600,000 lives in America and 30 million worldwide. No one was safe. The young, the old, the healthy could become sick in the morning and dead by that same evening.

Come with us back to 1907 and meet Frederick Walter Kelley. Stay with us to meet his family. Grow with us in a new town. Cry with us through the final chapters of death.