 Last year marked the 100th anniversary of when the United States sent troops overseas to fight in World War I. The Clearwater County Historical Society in Shelvin just added a section to their military room that explores that time. Lakeland News reporter Sheryl Moore has that story for this week's In Focus. If you've ever been curious about what the United States was like during the World War I era, then the Clearwater Historical Society has the exhibit for you. This exhibit is from the Smithsonian Institute. It's a program they call SITES, which is Smithsonian Institute Traveling Exhibits. And it was free of charge. The new posters are centered in the society's military room, which is steps away from the main gallery. We have all of our artifacts from the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, all the way through to Desert Storm. In addition to the artifacts, we've collected a number of stories of soldiers from our county, and so those are on display as well. The posters are perfect for history buffs. Each picture is detailed and comes with easy to follow captions. Each one has a particular topic, anything from how to sell the war to women in the war to medicine. And the overreaching question is how was America shaped by the legacy of World War I? Now of course it's fun to look at the pictures on the poster and kind of get a general idea of what's going on. But if you crash down a little lower, each one comes with a fact sheet so you can get even more details about what you're looking at. We also send along learning guides and ways to use the exhibit posters, and so it was really kind of an exciting and it fits in with our upcoming World War I exhibit. So we're kind of starting with this poster exhibited and we'll expand on it with our own local exhibit. If you want to see it in person, you have tons of time to plan a trip. We'll have this exhibit up until November when Armistice Day was the 11th hour of the 11th month and so we'll end our World War I exhibits in November. And if you know of someone with an interesting military connection, the Clearwater Society wants to hear your story. If a person comes in and has a story to share, we'd like to talk with them and get some pictures and things from them so and this is a permanent exhibit. Our military exhibit is up all the time. Reporting in Shevlin with this week's in focus, Sherell Moore, Lakeland News. The Clearwater County Gallery is open from 10 to 4 Tuesdays through Thursdays. They'll also be open this weekend and admission is free and if you want to see the military room, you just have to ask for a tour. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.