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Today the BHL Podcast series visits with Shaley George, the Curator of the National Orphan Train Complex in Concordia, KS. Join us as we learn the incredible story of the Orphan Train, an amazing chapter in American history. Learn how America dealt with the large numbers of orphans in the 19th and 20th centuries by sending them west on trains, the experiences these children had in their new lives, the compelling questions of law and morality that were a part of it, and the unbelievable continuing impact on the families and descendants.
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Today the BHL Podcast series visits with Shaley George, the Curator of the National Orphan Train Complex in Concordia, KS. Join us as we learn the incredible story of the Orphan Train, an amazing chapter in American history. Learn how America dealt with the large numbers of orphans in the 19th and 20th centuries by sending them west on trains, the experiences these children had in their new lives, the compelling questions of law and morality that were a part of it, and the unbelievable continuing impact on the families and descendants.