Caden Wood as Willie Mayes, right, is joined by Kenedi Woehrel as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, center, and Jayden Vagneur as Martin Luther King Jr. at the May 12 wax museum.
Alex Sears is George Washington Carver, who is known for his research in peanuts. A research center and museum are named after him, and he is the first African-American to have a national monument designated in his honor.
Cooper Williams is Elvis Presley. The wig is pretty itchy, Cooper noted.
Savanna Edwards is Barbara McClintock, one of the first researchers to study chromosomes. She won the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology.
Molly Brown, a leading society woman in Denver and survivor of the Titanic, was portrayed by Adi Hooks.
Deegan Barnes learned Johnny Appleseed planted apple trees throughout the American landscape. The eccentric missionary sometimes used a tin pot for a hat.
May brings the end of the school year and the annual wax museum at Bayfield Elementary School. Fifth grade students research and dress as historical characters, then line the downstairs hallway at BES. Visitors push a 'button' and listen to a spiel by the students about their characters.
