Coleman Chronicle & Democrat-Voice (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 136, No. 38, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 20, 2017 Page: 3 of 14
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Coleman Museum hosts Riders on the Orphan Train
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Live Music
Horseshoe Tournament
Civil War Re-enactors
Saha we Indian Dancers
Antique Tractor 5 Engine Show
Indian Re-enactors
The Largest Classic Car Show in Central Texas
The best fair food
Great Shopping
Barnie McBee BBQ Cook Off
of the children were not orphans but
“surrendered” by parents too impov-
erished to keep them. The New York
Foundling Hospital, a Catholic orga-
nization, also sent out children to be
placed in Catholic homes. This seven-
ty-six year experiment in child reloca-
tion is filled with the entire spectrum
of human emotion and reveals a great
deal about the successes and failures
of the American Dream.
The one-hour multi- media pro-
gram combines live music by Phillip
Lancaster and Alison Moore, video
montage with archival photographs
and interviews of survivors, and a
dramatic reading of the 2012 nov-
el “Riders on the Orphan Train” by
award-winning author Alison Moore.
Although the program is about chil-
dren, it is designed to engage audi-
ences of all ages and to inform, in-
spire and raise awareness about this
little-known part of history.
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THE FALL?-In February
of this year, wild flower
seeds were scattered on
the Voss Playground.
Some grew and died,
but one lone blue bon-
net took root and has
continued to bloom
through the high winds
and hot days. I watered
it, and it still has its
blue flowers. It is small
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Local relatives and acquaintances
of Orphan Train Riders are especially
invited to attend and share their sto-
ries with the audience.
Alison Moore, Author/ Humanities
Scholar
Alison Moore, MFA, is a former As-
sistant Professor of English/Creative
Writing in the MFA Creative Writing
Program at the University of Arizona
and a current Humanities Scholar.
She lives in Austin and has been
touring nationally since 1998 with
the multi-media program “Riders on
the Orphan Train” that is currently
the official outreach program for the
National Orphan Train Complex Mu-
seum and Research Center. She has
also developed public outreach pro-
grams for the Orphan Train Heritage
Society of America, Inc. and for Arts-
Reach, a Native American literacy
project in Southern Arizona. She is
the author of four books, the histori-
The Coleman Museum at Heritage
Hall, 400 West College Avenue, is
hosting Riders on the Orphan Train
event. The event is FREE and Open to
the Public Monday, September 25, at
6:00 p.m. This special program is for
General Audiences of all ages.
Few people today know much about
the largest child migration in history.
Between 1854 and 1929 over 250,000
orphans and unwanted children were
taken out of New York City and given
away at train stations across America.
Children were sent to every state in
the continental United States; the last
train went to Sulphur Springs, Texas
in 1929. This “placing out” system
was originally organized by Methodist
minister Charles Loring Brace and the
Children’s Aid Society of New York.
His mission was to rid the streets and
overcrowded orphanages of homeless
children and provide them with an
opportunity to find new homes. Many
BY TRENA CLAYWELL
Editor
Sycamore Mayor, Curtis Lang were
also in attendance.
The marker reads “DeKalb Swine
Breeders grew from the shared vision
of two companies, Lubbock Swine
Breeders Inc. (LSB) of Lubbock,
Texas, and DeKalb Agresearch, Inc.
(DeKalb) of DeKalb, Illinois, that
synergistically combined to trans-
form agriculture. LSB began devel-
oping its Total Confinement System
for Large-Scale Hog Production in
the early 1960s. The average inven-
tory of a U.S. hog farm was only
50 hogs. LSB principals Euel Liner
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and Roy Poage developed a new,
unique system of producing hogs
in large numbers in total confine-
ment. This innovative system care-
fully controlled all aspects of the
rearing environment, from concep-
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cal novel “Riders on the Orphan Train”
from Roadworthy Press in 2012, a
collection of short fiction, The Middle
of Elsewhere from Phoenix Interna-
tional, University of Arkansas Press
in 2006, a novel, Synonym for Love
(Penguin/Plume 1996), and. a col-
lection of short stories entitled Small
Spaces between Emergencies (Mer-
cury House, 1992) one of the Notable
Books of 1993 chosen by The Ameri-
can Library Association She received
two National Endowment for the Arts
Fiction Fellowships in 1993 and 2010
and the Katherine Ann Porter Prize
for Fiction in 2004. In 2007/08 she
received the J. Frank Dobie Paisano
fellowship from the University of Tex-
as at Austin and the Texas Institute
of Letters. In 2012 she received the
Charles Loring Brace Award for help-
ing to preserve the stories of the Or-
success in boosting yields through
the unveiling of theJDAAHA’s eighth sorghum," DeKalb” embarked on hy^
bridizing swine production in 1968.
But it became apparent that con-
trolling diseases was critical to pro-
duce hogs in large numbers. DeKa-
lb identified LSB as the nation’s
leading producer of swine breeding
' , with its proprietary con-
finement system. DeKalb and LSB
in 1971, concluding
there was clear business logic for a
merger. In 1972, LSB and DeKalb
. . merged their swine businesses into
sentative Bob Pritchard and City of DeKalb Swine Breeders (DSB) with
Roy Poage as president. Within 15
years, headquartered here, became
a world leader in swine breeding. In
the process DSB transformed the
U.S. swine industry. By 2005, av-
erage inventory per farm increased
18-fold to 900 hogs. As swine pro-
ducers adopted the Total Confine-
ment Techniques first developed
by LSB, then refined and expand-
ed by DSB. Sponsored by DeKalb
Area Agricultural Heritage Associa-
tion (www.daaha.org) and Illinois
State Historical Society. September
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The DeKalb Area Agricultural
Heritage Association and the Illi-
nois State Historical Society hon-
ored Roy Poage, former President tion through maturity."Foffowing'its
of DeKalb Swine Breeders, and oth- < ; ' ; J. h
ers, on Monday, September 11,. with hybridization of corn^clrickens^and
historical marker. The marker rec-
ognized the contributions of the
DeKalb Swine Producers to DeKalb
County’s agricultural history. The
marker is located at 2045 Aberdeen
Court, Sycamore, Illinois.
The work done by Roy Poage and stock
colleagues throughout the 1970s, f
80s, and 90s improved genetics and principals met i
swine management that gave farm-
ers tremendous economic and meat
quality gains. Illinois State Repre-
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