Orphan Train
Orphan Train – From 1859 to 1929, America’s answer for what to do with orphans and indigent children. Beginning in 1854 and continuing for seventy-five years, so-called ‘orphan trains’ transported indigent children from the east coast to adoptive homes in the Midwest. I knew this had occurred, but until I read Christina Baker Kline’s novel, […]
The Rose Garden
When I was young, and just learning to appreciate the worlds where fiction could transport me, I found myself enchanted by the novels of Daphne Du Maurier. I read them all, many times over. Rebecca, of course, was my favorite, and I can’t count the number of times I watched the film version with Joan […]