I just finished reading "Riders on the Orphan Train"

[WhiteTara]

4. Sounds as though you are a bit dispeptic yourself

my dear Hestia.

I simply noted I felt haunted by the story. So much of it takes place in my current backyard and in the area my mother's family lived in. I felt that for the most part the idea of taking a child was to have help in what ever life the family was living. In this book, the children showcased were taken for companionship.

I was fairly aware of the horror of NYC in the early 1900s, the Triangle Shirtwaist fire exposed much of the degradation of life in the city.

I'm sorry you were so upset about my relating my experience of a part of history about which I knew nothing. I'm happy you were able to find your family as part of that story.