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Speaker series - The Orphan Train Movement: 1854-1929

Speaker Donna Aviles will discuss the history of this seventy-five-year "social experiment" - now recognized as our country's first foster care program - which transported an estimated 250,000 homeless children from the streets of East Coast cities to farming communities of the Midwest in search of stable homes. Attendees will hear recordings of a first-person account of one of these children who left an orphanage, rode the orphan train, and then went to a childless farming couple in Kansas. 

The Delaware Humanities fund this program.

Date:
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Time:
5:00pm - 6:30pm Eastern Time
Location:
Community Meeting Room
Library:
Frankford Public Library
Audience:
  Adults     Teens  
Categories:
  History and Genealogy  
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