PBS NC helps your community explore new worlds and ideas through programs that educate, ... Emily Reese Kidder of Milton who was brought to Wisconsin in 1909 on an orphan train.

Almost 250 thousand kids came West by Orphan Train. Jim and Clark Kidder’s grandma was one. ... Support your local PBS station in our mission to inspire, enrich, and educate.

The Orphan Trains at 1 and 6:30 p.m. Jan. 21 will offer a screening of the titular PBS American Experience video about minister Charles Loring Brace’s Children’s Aid Society and other ...

Over the course of more than seventy-five years, from 1853-1929, somewhere between 120,000 to 250,000 children were sent on Orphan Trains from New York City to farms and ranches hundreds and ...

The orphan train's last run was through East Texas with its final stop in Sulphur Springs in 1929. A 1993 documentary on PBS,' "The American Experience," tells the orphan train story.

MASON CITY | The North Iowa Area Community College (NIACC) Lifelong Learning Institute (LLI) will hold a free class on the NIACC common read, “Orphan Train,” from 3-5 p.m. on ...

The selected book is “Orphan Train: The Novel,” by Christina Baker Kline. One Book, One Community is an opportunity for family, friends, co-workers and residents to connect around a shared ...

The second orphan train stop in Osage took place in 1921, when a young girl from the Bronx named Marian Christiansen, ... According to a PBS special on the trains, “Work was scarce.

Those are the questions that Sioux City Library communications specialist Kathy Kelly and her crew of 10 volunteers ask themselves when selecting a book for One Book One Siouxland, a community ...

Clark Kidder, author of "Emily’s Story: The Brave Journey of an Orphan Train Rider" will be at several Sioux County libraries March 6 and 7. His documentary "West by Orphan ...

Senior Film Day at Coos Bay Public Library will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Myrtlewood Meeting Room. Admission is free and refreshments will be served.

Christina Baker Kline's new novel, Orphan Train, is partially set in 1929, mere months before the stock market crash that would trigger the Great Depression. A young Irish girl, Niamh (pronounced ...