Wind and Grass and Sky

1898--Alice Lewis doesn't want to leave her friends at the Newsboy's Lodging House in New York behind, but has little choice in the matter when she and her two siblings are sent away on the Orphan Train, bound for a new life in the rural Midwest. 1899--When Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raise the price of newspapers from 50 to 60 cents per hundred for the newsboys who sell them, Manhattan leaders Louis "Kid Blink" Baletti and Jack Kelly decide they've had enough. During strike that follows, an article in the Sun catches the eye of a schoolboy out in Wisconsin, and Alice is pulled inexplicably back into the life she thought she had been severed from permanently. And the rest is, as they say, history.