Orphan Train Book Discussion at 1 and 6:30 p.m. Jan. 28 focuses on Christina Baker Kline’s novel “Orphan Train,” which moves between contemporary Maine and Depression-era Minnesota in a ...

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 ...

Orphan train children began arriving in Minnesota before 1870. Arrivals began increasing in the 1870s and historians estimate that between 3,500 and 4,000 children went to Minnesota via orphan trains.

This was just one day of the Orphan Train Movement, and it aimed to offer these children with no relatives and no homes a chance at family life in rural areas where they might thrive.These stories ...

WHAT: Book signing for Ethel Kjaer Barker's "For the Love of Pete: An Orphan Train Story" WHEN: 2:30 p.m. July 28 WHERE: Hearst Center for the Arts, 304 W. Seerley Blvd.

This was just one day of the Orphan Train Movement, and it aimed to offer these children with no relatives and no homes a chance at family life in rural areas where they might thrive.These stories ...