The Pella Public Library is hosting a program about the “Orphan Train Movement.”

Retired Reading Specialist Lori Vicker from Viterbo University will present about the historical era on Monday, November 19 at 7:00 p.m. The Orphan Train Movement was a supervised welfare program that transported orphaned and homeless children from crowded Eastern cities of the United States to foster homes located largely in rural areas of the Midwest. The orphan trains operated between 1854 and 1929, relocating about 200,000 children.

The program is free and open to the public. It will be held in the Library Meeting Room.