Thursday, March 30 |  New Iberia Main Library | 5:30 – 7 PM | All ages welcome
No registration required

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. Children were sent to every state in the continental United States. This mission was to rid the streets and overcrowded orphanages of homeless children and provide them with an opportunity to find new homes. Many of the children were not orphans but “surrendered” by parents too impoverished to keep them.
The one-hour multi-media program combines live music by Phillip Lancaster and Alison Moore, a video montage with archival photographs and interviews of survivors, and a dramatic reading of the 2021 novel “Riders on the Orphan Train” by award-winning author Alison Moore.