Orphan train
" Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains transported more than two hundred thousand orphaned, abandoned and homeless children - many of whom, like the character in this book, were first-generation Irish Catholic immigrants - from the coastal cities of the eastern United States to the Midwest for "adoption", which often turned out to be indentured servitude"
When the train stopped - babies and healthy looking boys were chosen first. Children who were not picked were sent to the next town or even back to the children's home in the east.
This book is a fictional story about what happens to an Irish girl who was transported on such a train from New York to Minnesota in 1929..
The story links the life of a foster girl in 2011 to the life of the woman who was a foster child in 1929.
A really interesting read with a bit real history and pictures after the story.
Orphan train
" Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains transported more than two hundred thousand orphaned, abandoned and homeless children - many of whom, like the character in this book, were first-generation Irish Catholic immigrants - from the coastal cities of the eastern United States to the Midwest for "adoption", which often turned out to be indentured servitude"
When the train stopped - babies and healthy looking boys were chosen first. Children who were not picked were sent to the next town or even back to the children's home in the east.
This book is a fictional story about what happens to an Irish girl who was transported on such a train from New York to Minnesota in 1929..
The story links the life of a foster girl in 2011 to the life of the woman who was a foster child in 1929.
A really interesting read with a bit real history and pictures after the story.