Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and FailedHMH, 4 de nov. de 2014 - 384 páginas The true story behind Christina Baker Kline’s bestselling novel is revealed in this “engaging and thoughtful history” of the Children’s Aid Society (Los Angeles Times). A powerful blend of history, biography, and adventure, Orphan Trains fills a grievous gap in the American story. Tracing the evolution of the Children’s Aid Society, this dramatic narrative tells the fascinating tale of one of the most famous—and sometimes infamous—child welfare programs: the orphan trains, which spirited away some two hundred fifty thousand abandoned children into the homes of rural families in the Midwest. In mid-nineteenth-century New York, vagrant children, whether orphans or runaways, filled the streets. The city’s solution for years had been to sweep these children into prisons or almshouses. But a young minister named Charles Loring Brace took a different tack. With the creation of the Children’s Aid Society in 1853, he provided homeless youngsters with shelter, education, and, for many, a new family out west. The family matching process was haphazard, to say the least: at town meetings, farming families took their pick of the orphan train riders. Some children, such as James Brady, who became governor of Alaska, found loving homes, while others, such as Charley Miller, who shot two boys on a train in Wyoming, saw no end to their misery. Complete with extraordinary photographs and deeply moving stories, Orphan Trains gives invaluable insights into a creative genius whose pioneering, if controversial, efforts inform child rescue work today. |
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... farm, "South Side" — paid for by a $12,000 loan from his father — encompassed 130 acres near Seguine Point, looking ... farming was the healthiest, happiest, and most virtuous life a man could have, and he often declared that he loved no ...
... farm, "South Side" — paid for by a $12,000 loan from his father — encompassed 130 acres near Seguine Point, looking ... farming was the healthiest, happiest, and most virtuous life a man could have, and he often declared that he loved no ...
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... farm was the opportunity to reimmerse himself in nature. Almost every one of the letters he wrote from the island contained an extended meditation on the landscape that surrounded him and on its relationship to the divine. In the early ...
... farm was the opportunity to reimmerse himself in nature. Almost every one of the letters he wrote from the island contained an extended meditation on the landscape that surrounded him and on its relationship to the divine. In the early ...
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... farm during the peak growing season, and in any event, they knew he did not have the money. Fred, however, could not ... farms, markets, and orchards and making more purposeful visits to well-known parks and gardens, and to jails ...
... farm during the peak growing season, and in any event, they knew he did not have the money. Fred, however, could not ... farms, markets, and orchards and making more purposeful visits to well-known parks and gardens, and to jails ...
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... farm and fiance, respectively, and Brace went on to Hamburg to study politics and theology. His original plan was to return to the United States just before Christmas, but much to the consternation of his family, who worried that a ...
... farm and fiance, respectively, and Brace went on to Hamburg to study politics and theology. His original plan was to return to the United States just before Christmas, but much to the consternation of his family, who worried that a ...
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... houses, like old fashioned farm-houses, scattered about, and one quiet shaded chapel. The boys visible outside were busy cleaning the flower-beds, or working in the harvest field; some also, repairing Flood of Humanity 53.
... houses, like old fashioned farm-houses, scattered about, and one quiet shaded chapel. The boys visible outside were busy cleaning the flower-beds, or working in the harvest field; some also, repairing Flood of Humanity 53.
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