The orphan trains moved over 200,000 homeless children from Five Points, NYC to the farms of Midwest farmers who fostered or adopted them. Lampos explains the reasons for this placing out of orphans to strangers by three organizations. A storyteller, Lampos will relate the experiences of Lee Nailing as he is adopted by a Texas couple. Hear the music. See the compelling PowerPoint. Learn the history that our teachers never related.
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