September 4, Legacy of the Plains Museum 6:00 pm
“Riders on the Orphan Train” is the Official outreach program of the National Orphan Train Complex and Museum in Concordia KS. We are i
n our 28th year of touring with our program.
The Program is an hour and a half long of Live Music, Video and Storytelling. There are archival photos as a backdrop to the topical songs we sing, Alison recites a portion of her Historic novel and I tell the story of Lee Nailling, one of the Orphan Train Riders we knew. We present an Exposé about the Children’s Aid Society and the Catholic Foundling Hospital.
Few people today know much about the largest child migration in history. Between 1854 and 1929 over 250,000 orphans and unwanted children were taken out of New York City and given away at train stations across America, many of them to Nebraska. Between 1861 and 1925, over 4,000 children from the trains made their homes in our state in such towns as North Platte, Lexington, Broadwater, Elkhorn, West Point, Beatrice, Neligh, and many others.
To bring this rich part of Nebraska History to underserved areas in the state Humanities Nebraska has funded several presentations of the multi-media program “Orphan Trains to Nebraska” in July. The program will come to Legacy of the Plains Museum on September 4th at 6:00 pm. It is free to the public, and they want to thank Humanities Nebraska for sponsoring the event!
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