Riders on the Orphan Train
Performance
In this ninety-minute presentation, historian Alison Moore and musician Phil Lancaster chronicle the history of the orphan train program, which operated in the U.S. from 1854 to 1929. For more information, please contact Tom Green County Stephens Central Library at 325.659.7321.
May 5, 2012, 2:00 p.m.
Map
Young riders of an actual "orphan train." Photographs courtesy of Extraordinary Stories, Austin.