Riders on the Orphan Train- Arizona’s Hidden History

Author Alison Moore and musician Phil Lancaster present this free multi-media presentation to inform and entertain audiences of all ages with this little-known chapter in American and Arizona history. Between 1854 and 1929, over 250,00 homeless children were taken out of New York City and given away at train stations across the United States. In 1904, twenty-one Irish Catholic children were sent to Clifton, Arizona, where the ensuring confrontation over their stewardship became a state and national controversy. The presentation illustrates ho this nearly eighty-year experiment in child migration is filled with both tragic stories  and happy endings.