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Rescheduled: Riders on the Orphan Train

2023-03-28 18:00:00 2023-03-28 19:00:00 America/Chicago Rescheduled: Riders on the Orphan Train Novelist Alison Moore & singer/songwriter Phil Lancaster combine audio visual elements, historical fiction, and music to bring the largely forgotten Orphan Train movement to public awareness. Join us! Sulphur Regional Branch - Sulphur Community Room A

Tuesday, March 28
6:00pm - 7:00pm

Add to Calendar 2023-03-28 18:00:00 2023-03-28 19:00:00 America/Chicago Rescheduled: Riders on the Orphan Train Novelist Alison Moore & singer/songwriter Phil Lancaster combine audio visual elements, historical fiction, and music to bring the largely forgotten Orphan Train movement to public awareness. Join us! Sulphur Regional Branch - Sulphur Community Room A

Sulphur Regional Branch

Sulphur Community Room A

Novelist Alison Moore & singer/songwriter Phil Lancaster combine audio visual elements, historical fiction, and music to bring the largely forgotten Orphan Train movement to public awareness. Join us!

The multi-media presentation, Riders on the Orphan Train, tells the story of the 250,000 orphans and unwanted children who were put on trains in New York between 1854 and 1929 and sent all over the United States to be given away. The presentation is comprised of original music, an audio-visual presentation of archival photographs and interviews with two surviving orphan train riders and is followed by a dramatic recitation from the new novel "Riders on the Orphan Train" by novelist and Humanities Scholar Alison Moore.

After the presentation, there will be an informal discussion led by Alison Moore and Phil Lancaster about the origin and demise of the largest child migration in history and the part it played in the formation of the American Dream. Do not miss this traveling outreach program! Light refreshments will be served.

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Special Event | History | Book Discussions | Authors |

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Sulphur Regional Branch

sulref@calcasieulibrary.org
Phone: (337) 721-7138
Branch manager
Aaron Webster (LaTisha Stevens - temp)

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The Sulphur Regional Branch houses a brick sculpture featuring historic figures and moments in Sulphur history that greet you upon entering the lobby. This location offers various-sized meeting rooms, study rooms, and public computers. 

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