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When the Orphan Trains Came to Arizona
September 30, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm MST
When the Orphan Trains Came to Arizona
Friday, September 30, 2022 – 7:00 PM
Acadia Ranch Museum – 825 E Mt Lemmon Hwy – Oracle, AZ
There is no charge for the event but donations are always welcome. Refreshments will be served.
Please join us Friday, September 30 at 7:00 PM for a showing of Michael Keene’s documentary Abandoned: The Untold Story of the Orphan Trains.
Michael Keene is the author of several history books, historical videos, audio books, and a podcast. Originally from upstate New York and employed for twenty-five years as a financial advisor, Michael has combined his interests in writing and film making to explore unusual but true stories of history. What began as a hobby fifteen years ago has now grown to a wonderful obsession!
Michael’s documentary will be followed by a recap by Oracle Historical Society staff of the arrival of an orphan train in Clifton-Morenci in 1904. A group of over two dozen Irish-Catholic orphans arrived in Clifton-Morenci and triggered angry mobs and violence, and caused a priest to flee the towns in fear for his life.