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Louisiana's last orphan train rider dies at 98
Posted on 1/20/15 at 1:35 am
Posted on 1/20/15 at 1:35 am
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Alice Kearns Geoffroy Bernard, the last known living Orphan Train rider in Louisiana, died Saturday (Jan. 17) in Lafayette. She was 98.
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The Orphan Train Movement from 1854 and 1929 was a social experiment in child relocation, in which more than 250,000 orphans and unwanted children were taken out of New York City and given away at train stations across the country and in Canada. The program stopped in large part due to growing measures by state legislatures to restrict or forbid the interstate placement of children, according to the Louisiana Orphan Train Society.
This post was edited on 1/20/15 at 1:35 am
Posted on 1/20/15 at 1:42 am to TypoKnig
Damn, wonder how many on this site are Orphan Train products.
Posted on 1/20/15 at 2:34 am to TypoKnig
Should reinstate this policy
Posted on 1/20/15 at 6:47 am to iliveinabox
there is a museum in Opelousas dedicated to the history of the orphan trains. Pretty interesting stuff. Lots of kids sent to Southwest La.
Posted on 1/20/15 at 6:49 am to TypoKnig
Never heard of this. They just "gave" them to any passerby who was willing to take them? No placement service? No background check?
Posted on 1/20/15 at 6:51 am to TypoKnig
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quote: Alice Kearns Geoffroy Bernard, the last known living Orphan Train rider in Louisiana, died Saturday (Jan. 17) in Lafayette. She was 98.
Wimp.
Greatest Generation my arse. The obits are full of them quitters.
Greatest Quitters, more like it.
Posted on 1/20/15 at 8:03 am to TypoKnig
Also known as human trafficking.
This post was edited on 1/20/15 at 8:08 am
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