The Orphans' Home Cycle

The Orphans' Home Cycle
Title The Orphans' Home Cycle PDF eBook
Author Horton Foote
Publisher Dramatists Play Service Inc
Pages 94
Release 2013
Genre Drama
ISBN 0822224755

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THE STORY: Act One: Roots in a Parched Ground. When his father dies and his mother and sister move to Houston, Horace Robedaux is left behind in Harrison, Texas with his feuding relatives, the Robedauxs and the Thorntons.Act Two: Convicts. Horace take

The Home

The Home
Title The Home PDF eBook
Author Richard Mckenzie
Publisher
Pages 248
Release 1996-01-25
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN

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A memoir of the author's years spent in an orphanage in North Carolina in the 1950s, presenting it as a place which, while lacking hugs and kisses, provides a stable home that turned out optimistic, well-adjusted young adults.

Orphan Journey Home

Orphan Journey Home
Title Orphan Journey Home PDF eBook
Author Liza Ketchum
Publisher Turtleback
Pages 129
Release 2002-11-01
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 9780606259156

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In 1828, while traveling by wagon from Illinois to Kentucky, twelve-year-old Jesse and her siblings lose their parents to a mysterious illness and must finish the dangerous journey by themselves.

Before and After

Before and After
Title Before and After PDF eBook
Author Judy Christie
Publisher Ballantine Books
Pages 321
Release 2019-10-22
Genre Family & Relationships
ISBN 0593130154

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The compelling, poignant true stories of victims of a notorious adoption scandal—some of whom learned the truth from Lisa Wingate’s bestselling novel Before We Were Yours and were reunited with birth family members as a result of its wide reach From the 1920s to 1950, Georgia Tann ran a black-market baby business at the Tennessee Children’s Home Society in Memphis. She offered up more than 5,000 orphans tailored to the wish lists of eager parents—hiding the fact that many weren’t orphans at all, but stolen sons and daughters of poor families, desperate single mothers, and women told in maternity wards that their babies had died. The publication of Lisa Wingate’s novel Before We Were Yours brought new awareness of Tann’s lucrative career in child trafficking. Adoptees who knew little about their pasts gained insight into the startling facts behind their family histories. Encouraged by their contact with Wingate and award-winning journalist Judy Christie, who documented the stories of fifteen adoptees in this book, many determined Tann survivors set out to trace their roots and find their birth families. Before and After includes moving and sometimes shocking accounts of the ways in which adoptees were separated from their first families. Often raised as only children, many have joyfully reunited with siblings in the final decades of their lives. Christie and Wingate tell of first meetings that are all the sweeter and more intense for time missed and of families from very different social backgrounds reaching out to embrace better-late-than-never brothers, sisters, and cousins. In a poignant culmination of art meeting life, many of the long-silent victims of the tragically corrupt system return to Memphis with the authors to reclaim their stories at a Tennessee Children’s Home Society reunion . . . with extraordinary results. Advance praise for Before and After “In Before and After, authors Judy Christie and Lisa Wingate tackle the true stories behind Wingate’s blockbuster Before We Were Yours, of the orphans who survived the Tennessee Children’s Home Society. With a journalist’s keen eye and a novelist’s elegant prose, Christie and Wingate weave together the stories that inspired Before We Were Yours with the lives that were changed as a result of reading the novel. Readers will be educated, enlightened, and enraptured by this important and flawlessly executed book.”—Pam Jenoff, author of The Orphan’s Tale and The Lost Girls of Paris

The Orphans Find a Home

The Orphans Find a Home
Title The Orphans Find a Home PDF eBook
Author Joan Stromberg
Publisher
Pages 96
Release 1998
Genre Catholics
ISBN 9780966468908

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Maria, Molly and Ming live on the streets of New York City in 1890 when Mother Cabrini finds them. With the love of Mother Cabrini the girls find their way to Christ.

The Holy Family Orphans Home

The Holy Family Orphans Home
Title The Holy Family Orphans Home PDF eBook
Author LaBelle Photos
Publisher Holy Family Orphans Home
Pages 0
Release 2017-04
Genre Photography
ISBN 9780692808900

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Photographs of the abandoned Holy Family Orphanage in Marquette, Michigan, accompanied by essays about its history. The orphanage was built in 1915 and is on the National Register of Historic Places. It is currently being renovated into apartments.

We Were Not Orphans

We Were Not Orphans
Title We Were Not Orphans PDF eBook
Author Sherry Matthews
Publisher University of Texas Press
Pages 0
Release 2011-02-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780292725591

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"We were not orphans. Our parents were living; they just couldn't take care of us." This poignant remark captures the heartbreaking reality faced by thousands of Texas children from the 1920s through the 1970s. The Waco State Home provided housing and education for "dependent and neglected" children, but residents paid a price in physical and sexual abuse, military discipline, and plantation-style labor. Even so, the institution was the only home they had, and it rescued many children from an even worse fate. Now for the first time, oral histories and newly unearthed documents reveal what went on behind the gates of the Waco State Home. Sherry Matthews has tracked down former residents and uncovered criminal abuse that went unpunished and unpublicized. She first became aware of the Waco State Home at age three, when her three brothers were taken there to live. Years later, she attended a reunion at the Home and began collecting the alumni stories with assistance from author Jesse Sublett. We Were Not Orphans gathers riveting recollections from nearly sixty alumni who share the horror of abuse as well as their triumphs of spirit and ingenuity. Some alumni recall only the positive—bountiful food, caring teachers, victorious sports teams, and friendships and values that have lasted a lifetime. Others recount bloody beatings and sexual molestation that have left physical and emotional scars. These personal narratives and Matthews's relentless pursuit of the truth show how much can go wrong when a government-run institution operates without adequate public oversight. The Waco State Home finally closed after a landmark federal court decision and a courageous superintendent stopped the abuse and helped shepherd the children out of institutionalized care.