Philomena Lee’s lost son was one of
thousands of Irish babies forcibly adopted and sent to America—many of
them, as it turns out, to St. Louis. A woman, in hat and pearls and smart checked suit, smiles radiantly at
the camera and holds twins in her lap, little girls with fat, rosy
cheeks, their heads tucked into white caps.
Behind her, another woman in matching hat and suit smiles down at a tiny blonde girl, whose head is tilted, her expression inscrutable. NEW YORK, Feb. 15– BUNDLES FROM IRELAND, the caption reads. The women, the paper explains, flew in from St. Louis; they’d come to Idlewild Airport to meet these Irish orphans, who they hoped to adopt. On first leg of their journey, on February 9, 1952, the Dublin Evening Mail reported on the twin’s departure:
http://www.stlmag.com/The-Banished/
Behind her, another woman in matching hat and suit smiles down at a tiny blonde girl, whose head is tilted, her expression inscrutable. NEW YORK, Feb. 15– BUNDLES FROM IRELAND, the caption reads. The women, the paper explains, flew in from St. Louis; they’d come to Idlewild Airport to meet these Irish orphans, who they hoped to adopt. On first leg of their journey, on February 9, 1952, the Dublin Evening Mail reported on the twin’s departure:
http://www.stlmag.com/The-Banished/
