“The Orphan Train Era” Movie Screening

Companion film to Bay View's Big Read: Research historians and television producers Al and Dave Eicher have created this documentary film, “The Orphan Train Era.” Archival photos and footage show an orphaned child’s life in the city, the various child labor jobs and sleeping in tenement “daily lodging” for 7 cents a night. 12,500 children were placed in Michigan between 1854 and 1927.