The thousands of other Louisiana families are linked to orphan trains. It's estimated that 2000 children were sent to Louisiana from New York between 1869 and 1929. We know there are people out ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...