Clear Spring Publishing

The Orphan Home
The Memories of Laurence K. & John H. Buchholz

Edited by Christine E. Buck and John A. Buchholz

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"This book is a true piece of Americana, born in a world that no longer seems to exist. To read it is to realize in many ways how far we have come and perhaps in other ways how far we have not. These reminiscences of difficult childhoods are poignant reminders of how resilient children are, thankfully."

Charles Champlin
Author, columnist, film critic and historian

In September, 1910, John and Larry Buchholz—six and eight—were put aboard a Lehigh Valley passenger train in Geneva, New York, for the first leg of a 360-mile journey to an austere Ohio orphanage.

The Orphan Home is drawn from conversations recorded during the brothers' later years, and delivers captivating, sometimes disturbing, images of an indentured childhood at the Ebenezer Orphan Home in Flat Rock, Ohio.

"Fresh, lively, absorbing, and, ultimately, moving in its utter lack of self pity. This is a vivid and important evocation of the sort of institution that now is only dimly remembered.
This remarkable memoir should change all that."

Richard F. Snow
Editor of American Heritage

"This story of loss and survival will break your heart and inspire you. It is a story of courage and growth, of young lives in a faraway time told vividly and movingly. It is an account that gives hope and pleasure to the orphan in each of us."

Robert Morgan
Author of Gap Creek