Speaker series - The Orphan Train Movement: 1854-1929
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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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