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LSUE Performing Arts Turns Focus on the Orphan Train
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
- LSUE Public Relations |
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EUNICE – LSU at Eunice Performing Arts Series will be hosting two events March 10. A noontime production of “Riders of the Orphan Train” will be held in Opelousas at the Old City Market/City Hall, while an evening production of the Orphan Train program will be held in Eunice in the Health Technology Auditorium on the LSUE campus at 6:30 p.m.
Both events are open to the public. The noontime presentation in Opelousas is free to the public. Tickets for the evening production are $3 and can be purchased at the door.
“Riders of the Orphan Train” is a multimedia presentation that tells the story of 250,000 orphans and unwanted children who were put on trains in New York between 1854 and 1929 and sent all over the United States. An estimated 1,200 of these children came to Louisiana.
The presentation is comprised of original music, an audio-visual presentation of archival photographs and interviews with surviving orphan train riders and is followed by a dramatic recitation from a historical novel about the Orphan Trains by Alison Moore. Actual Louisiana survivors will be there to share their stories. Opelousas is the site of the national museum for the Riders on the Orphan Train.
After the evening presentation, Moore and Phil Lancaster will lead a discussion about the origins and demise of the largest child migration in history.
Both Moore and Lancaster reside in Austin, Texas and are co-producers of “Riders of the Orphan Train.” Moore is an author and humanities scholar and Lancaster a singer and songwriter.
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