moved into the orphanage at the end of the Great Depression, when he was 5. "My father had wonderful memories here. He plowed the land, he worked the land," Ferket said, noting that Dunbar would ...

Their parents, unable to care for five children during the Great Depression, left three of them in the orphanage. “During the 10 years I was at St. Stan’s, I had family,” he recalled in a ...

Orphanages, for instance, housed not only orphans ... Portions of this essay have been adapted from Alison Collis Greene's No Depression in Heaven: The Great Depression, the New Deal, and the ...

The matron of a long-ago Fairview orphanage did just that for 25 years ... on State Street was named in Bess Fall's honor. "It was a great program, and was not just for Jewish kids.

One subject, 74-year-old Mary Korlaske, had been swept into the orphanage by the Great Depression's devastating effect on family finances and had cooperated as a 12-year-old with Tudor ...

Though it has to be said the orphanage also provided them with an education, food, freedom to play and a relatively stable environment – the population peaked during the Great Depression at ...

The film tells the story of the Mighty Mites, the football team of a Fort Worth orphanage who, during the great depression, went from playing without shoes - or even a football - to playing for a ...

As the Great Depression tightened its grip on the country, an orphanage in Elmhurst Twp. struggled to keep the doors open. Built after years of donations, most from Greek Catholics here and in ...

That doesn't mean novels set during the Great Depression are ... to see a movie with the rest of the children who live in the orphanage with him, he becomes convinced of two things: 1) his ...

who plays an orphanage physician. He brings viewers up to speed on American history (“It’s hard to remember which came first, the Dust Bowl, or the Great Depression”) and the movie’s message.