With the hopes of building a better life for some 10,000 homeless children living on the harsh New York city streets, Charles Loring Brace founded the Children's Aid Society in 1853 in an attempt to rescue these orphans and send them by train out west to "kinder Christian homes in the country." Powerful old photographs of large-eyed children, along with young voices reading excerpts from century-old letters, and on-camera elderly interviewees reminiscing about once being passengers on those orphan trains make this a moving tribute to Brace and his struggle to save the children. Highly recommended. Aud: J, H, C, P. (N. Plympton)
Orphan Trains
(PBS, 60 min., $19.95, $59.95 w/PPR) Vol. 11, Issue 4
Orphan Trains
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