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An Irish woman who rode an Orphan Train from New York to Texas as an infant in 1922 recently celebrated her 100th birthday, possibly making her the last surviving Orphan Train passenger.

Read so far Sandra C. Thomas Special To The Citizen April 21, 2021 - 00:00 Posted in: The Orphan Trains carried as many as 250,000 children to their adoptive homes throughout the mid and southwest. Beatrice Flanagan Polack Fojtik with her Orphan Train photo as the last known remaining Orphan Train Rider in the U.S. Young baby Beatrice with her new mother Mary Kubes Polack. The Foundling Hospital of New York which cared for abandoned infants and small children. On Sunday April 25, 2021 Beatrice Flanagan Polak Fojtik w...

Robin Clifford Wood. (Photo courtesy Left Bank Books) Christina Baker Kline. (Photo courtesy Left Bank Books) The public is invited to a virtual conversation on Tuesday, May 4, at 7 p.m., when novelist Christina Baker Kline and debut author Robin Clifford Wood discuss Wood’s just-released book, The Field House: A Writer’s Life Lost and Found on an Island in Maine. The free event is being co-hosted by Left Bank Books in Belfast and The Bangor Daily News. To register:https://leftbankbookshop.com/events The Field House explores the life and legacy of multiple-award-winning author Rachel Fie...

Meeting includes regular business and entertainment. Written By: Staff reports | × The Wadena County Historical Society is taking added steps to get people to continue to view their work online with the help of a new billboard campaign. Image courtesy Wadena County Historical Society The Wadena County Historical Society will hold their semi-annual meeting on Tuesday, April 13, by Zoom. The evening will begin with a brief business meeting at 6:30 p.m. followed by special guest Pippa White in a one-woman show. "The Orphan Train." To receive a link to the Zoom meeting please email the Wadena...