The event will also include a signing for the book based on her grandmother Dora, who was an orphan train rider. “They wanted to show when you were an orphan train rider, things were different ...

The book takes readers from the proliferation ... which spearheaded the orphan train movement. “I was promised when he was sent away that I would know what place he was to be sent to.

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 ...

Many people view the Orphan Train more skeptically today ... As scholar Stephen O’Connor speculates in his book on the Orphan Trains, Brace’s plan “may have succeeded as well as could ...