Father Flanagan of Boys Town

120 sayfa. 13x19 cm
Now for the first time the whole story of Boys Town, the man who created and guided it, and the real stories of the boys it served, is warmly and faithfully told. Thirty-two years ago, with a borrowed ninety dollars and five boys---there from the Juvenile Court and two from the streets----Father Flanagan founded his Boys Home in an old house in downtown Omaha. Today the home is located at Boys Town, a regular incorporated villages eleven miles from the city. it occupies nine hundred acres and, with the new buildings just completed, cares for one thousand boys ranging in age from six to eighteen. Here you will find the stories of the boys who made Boys Town---the destitute starvelings who came without a friend in the world, the puzzled and distrustful youths who had never known a kind word or a soft bed. Here you will see the same boys emerge as responsible citizens, some with a trade, others ready for college or professional careers. Father Flanagan died on May 15, 1948, in Germany, wh

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