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The Orphan Train Experience In NYS

January 9, 2015 by Bob Cudmore 1 Comment

The Historians LogoThis week “The Historians” podcast features an interview with Christina Baker Kline, author of the novel Orphan Train (William Morrow, 2013).

Kline’s book is the 2015 book selection of Amsterdam Reads, based at the Amsterdam Free Library. The orphan trains transported destitute children from New York and other Eastern cities to foster homes located largely in rural areas of the Midwest. Some of the children were placed on farms in upstate New York, according to Kline. The orphan trains operated between 1853 and 1929, relocating about 250,000 children.

Listen at “The Historians” online archive at http://www.bobcudmore.com/thehistorians/

“The Historians” theme music is “Gloucester Wassail”, performed by Liaisons Plaisantes from their CD, “A Plaisantes Christmas”. “The Historians” is recorded at Dave Greene’s Command Central Studio.

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Filed Under: Books, History Tagged With: Agricultural History, Amsterdam, Podcasts

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  1. Pete Betz says

    January 10, 2015 at 4:55 PM

    I wonder, if my mother was an orphan and my father was an orphan, does that make me an orphan too?

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