With the launch of Hutchinson’s inaugural One Book, One Community project this month featuring “The Orphan Train: The Novel,” by Christina Baker Kline, it seems fitting to write about Hutchinson’s ...

The Crete Public Library District reached out via social media to find descendants of orphan train riders who want to share their stories for programming related to an upcoming exhibit. Sarah Wegley, ...

Between 1854 and 1929, more than 250,000 abandoned or poverty-stricken New York children were relocated to Midwestern families to relieve the overpopulation in the city’s streets. In “The Orphan Train ...

The Louisiana Orphan Train Museum in Opelousas opened in 2009. There were thousands of children sent on the orphan trains throughout America. Between 1854 and 1929, charity institutions in New York ...

Sixty thousand is the number of copies Christina Baker Kline thought her newest book, Orphan Train, might sell in her “wildest dreams.” For a midlist author on her fifth novel, it was a lofty number.

Some orphan train stories are classic American successes; others are as lonely as an orphan on a train. Such stories were shared last Saturday at the annual meeting of Louisiana Orphan Train Riders at ...

OPELOUSAS (KPLC) - It's been said everybody has a story to tell. But every now and then, you stumble across some who have a story that's overflowing with joy, with pain, with heartache and happiness ...

Step back in time to March 15, 1906, when the Orphan Train pulled into the Eastern Iowa town of Hopkinton. Townsfolk paused in their daily routines, drawn to the unusual gathering prompted by the ...

Henry Smith died in 1958 not knowing who he was or where he came from. The man with a name not his own eventually made a life for himself and his family in Kaukauna, establishing roots where there ...

Through stage productions, video and countless personal reflections most of us know something about the experiences of the Orphan Train Riders. Beginning in 1854 and continuing until 1929, as many as ...