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The following is a calendar of community events in the Baton Rouge area from Friday-Thursday, April 18.

Rotary Club Meeting – 2-20-24 Rotarian Peter Strawitz invited Martha Aubert and James Douget from the Louisiana Orphan Train Museum to present the program at the Rotary meeting on Tuesday. The Louisiana Orphan Train Museum will be celebrating 15 years in October. This museum is 100% volunteer run, and there are approximately 2000 visitors per year. They do a lot of community outreach as well. In the mid-1800s, there was a huge influx of people to New York, and due to shortages, there were thousands of street children, possibly as many as 30,000. Sister Irene Fitzgibbons founded the N...

Rotary Club Meeting – 2-20-24 Rotarian Peter Strawitz invited Martha Aubert and James Douget from the Louisiana Orphan Train Museum to present the program at the Rotary meeting on Tuesday. The ...

Learn more about a fascinating time in Louisiana history on Jan. 27 when Martha Aubert, president of the Louisiana Orphan Train Museum in Opelousas, and James Douget, a museum board

GMA Dave Trips: Louisiana Orphan Train Museum Reopening To Visitors June 1st . and last updated 2021-05-21 06:52:24-04 The Louisiana Orphan Train Museum in Opelousas will be reopening in June. The facility has been closed, except for a few private tours, since the beginning of the pandemic. . Between 1854 and 1929, charity institutions in New York began the mission of helping homeless or abandoned children living on the streets. These children were sent to foster families all over the country, including Louisiana. The Louisiana Orphan Train Museum opened in 2009 to tell the stories of more th...