It was 3:49 a.m. June 15, 1916, when orphan A17206 arrived at the train station in Winona, Minn. The 2-year-old girl with her name sewn in the hem of her dress was met by a couple who signed a receipt ...

With the launch of Hutchinson’s inaugural One Book, One Community project this month featuring “The Orphan Train: The Novel,” by Christina Baker Kline, it seems fitting to write about Hutchinson’s ...

Nearly a century later, A17206 is now Helen Koscianski, a 93-year-old Winona resident and one of the few living riders of the orphan trains, part of a 75-year-long practice in which thousands of ...