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NEW BOOK PROJECT REPORT:
ORPHAN TRAIN RIDERS; Their Own Stories Vol. 1
The new book project is now in the printing and binding stage. The typesetting and editing have been finished. Newspaper columnists across America have been notified of its progress and a little of the contents. An assortment of historical and genealogical societies on OTHSA’s mailing list have been informed of the pre-publication price ($27.50 including postage) and the post-publication price ($35.00) after February 15,1992. Members of OTHSA may purchase the new books for the pre-publication price as long as the supply lasts.
Gateway Press (Baltimore, MD) expects to ship the new books to OTHSA by the end of March, 1992. OTHSA will handle the stamping of names on the covers (for those of you who paid extra to have this done) and then mail the books out.
A list of the suggested “Table of Contents” has been printed. At the writing of this article, about five other stories are being edited. If you have submitted a story, and it is NOT on this list, please call 501-751-7830 and leave a message for Mary Ellen Johnson.
Vol. 2 in this series of four books began accepting stories January 1, 1992. Vol. 2 has a deadline of May 15, 1992 for a publication date of October 1,1992. These books will also sell for $27.50, including postage, to OTHSA members.
Partial Table of Contents For: ORPHAN TRAIN RIDERS; Their Own Stories
"Adopted At The Age Of Seventeen" - Pat Thiessen "Are You Going To Take My Sister Away?" - Mary Ann Carlisle "Are You Going To Be My Daddy?" - Bessie Stroh "Aunt Sophie Mallone Being Sought" - Frank & Sophie Anderson "Balloon Only Christmas Gift Remembered" - Oliver Gray "Birthday Present" - Herbert Kingsley "Brooklyn Uncle Didn’t Keep Him" - Maurice deDeleu "Brother and Sister Kept In Touch" - Kittie & Joseph Horton "Brown Eyes In A Blue-Eyed Family"- Mary Daly Carter "Carrie; A Loving Grandma" - Carrie Salverson Littrell "Christmas Doll For A Nebraska Home" - Leonora Campbell "Civil War Veteran" - William Finn "Compassion To Spare" - William Harry Gould "Cowgirl Who Gave Piano Lessons" - Margaret Braden "Daddy, Who Are You?" - George Rebecca
"Don’t Make Noise Or We Won’t Get A Good Home" - Martha McKibbons
"Early Days Rider" - Frank Simmons
"English Boy With A French Family" - Robert Henry Holland
"Five Children - Four Rode The Orphan Trains" • Bullis Children
"Frank’s Story, As Related By His Sons" - Frank Reizer
"From New York to Arkansas, On An Oprhan Train" - Algie Braly
"Genetics Desperately Sought" - Lucille Rasmussen
"Good Square Dance Fiddle Player" - Louis Hoffman
"Grandpa’s Secret" - Levi Cornell
"He Dreamed Of Finding His Family" - Adolph Hamer
"He Chose July 4th As His Birthday" - James Foster, Jr.
"Her Sense of Family" - Sarah Tjbekes
"I Rode An Orphan Train Twice" - Dorothy Sharpley
"I Was One Lucky Youngster" - Lee Nailling
CROSSROADS Vol. 18, January, 1992 page 12