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Orphan Train Heritage Society
Crossroads Grows to Serve Readers
Do you notice something different about this issue of Crossroads?
We added four more pages! Your newsletter is now 12 pages instead of 8.
The OTHSA Board of Directors voted to increase the size of Crossroads in order to provide OTHSA members with more interesting and helpful information in each issue.
The newsletter has been expanded without having to increase membership fees, Mary Ellen Johnson, OTHSA executive director, pointed out.
We invite all our readers to participate in the newsletter by submitting stories, pictures, letters to the editor, family search requests, etc.
Did You See Me ?
Philip Lawson’s hand written poster read, “Did anyone see a curly, black-haired lad of about 2 years old with olive skin (possibly Armenian descent) on an Orphan Train in October or later in the year 1916? Orphan Train was believed to have stopped in Monnett, Missouri, or Rogers, Arkansas, where this little lad in the photo was taken by Harden Melvin and Veva Lawson.” The poster went on to explain that he was “supposedly found when two days old in a vacant lot in the Bronx, New York, taken to the New York Foundling Home then sent out on an Orphan Train.” If you can help identify the boy in the photo, please write to Philip N. Lawson, 214 S. Little, Cushing, OK 74023.
Shopper’s Corner
To assist our readers, we have the following items on hand for sale.
The Dangerous Classes of New York by Charles Loring Brace has been reprinted in paperback. The original publication date was 1872. You may order this book from OTHSA for $15.00 which includes shipping and sales tax.
Joan Lowery Nixon’s books, A Family Apart, Caught in the Act, and In the Face of Danger, may be ordered for $15.00 each from OTHSA (includes shipping and sales tax). Joan’s books are published by Bantam. They are fiction but the research is so thorough, they could be nonfiction. These are the first three books of her “Orphan Train Quartet.” The fourth book, which comes out soon, will be on sale when available.
Jean Paton’s Orphan Voyage is available for $10.00, which includes shipping and sales tax. This is a factual book written by an orphan and includes interviews with some Orphan Train Riders.
A full color, 8x10 photograph of the Orphan Train Riders attending the 1988 OTHSA Reunion is available for $10.00 each. This includes shipping and sales tax.
To order any of the above items, just send your request and check to OTHSA, Route 4, Box 565, Springdale, AR 72764.
Joan Lowery Nixon, Houston, TX, was on hand to speak and autograph her books at the 1988 Reunion.
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