An interview with Florence Viselli King, my grandmother, hero and one sly Gin Rummy opponent: A moving and inspiring story of the events that led her to become a rider on the Orphan Train, her separation from her family, and her new life on a little farm in Missouri.
[The 'Orphan Trains' ran from 1854-1929 and was a controversial and little-known social initiative that sought to improve the lives of some 30,000 orphaned, abandoned, and homeless children from the streets of New York by transporting them by train across the Midwest and placing them with willing rural families, to varied results.]
[The 'Orphan Trains' ran from 1854-1929 and was a controversial and little-known social initiative that sought to improve the lives of some 30,000 orphaned, abandoned, and homeless children from the streets of New York by transporting them by train across the Midwest and placing them with willing rural families, to varied results.]
