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Besides teaching incarcerated boys, Davis allowed other boys to take lessons at the Home after their release. Louis Armstrong and Henry "Kid" Rena were just two of the boys who returned to practice with Davis and the band, according to Rena's brother Joe Rene. Armstrong recalled, "Mr. Davis made the boys play a little of every kind of music."
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Chicago's Mercy Home for Boys and Girls, a long-term residential home for troubled young men and women from the streets and abusive homes, has published The Waif's Messenger for more than 100 years. A cartoon waif, an orphan boy, appeared in the 1936 Rainbow Parade cartoon A Waif's Welcome. [3]
It was then renamed the West Virginia Colored Orphans Home. [5] The school building burned down on April 5, 1920 and a new building was constructed between 1922 and 1923. A separate institution, the State Industrial Home for Colored Girls, was established in a building constructed on the property between 1924 and 1926, also of three stories. [2]
The National Incorporated Association for the Reclamation of Destitute Waif Children otherwise known as Dr. Barnardo's Homes was founded by Irish born doctor Thomas Barnardo, who opened a school in the East End of London to care for and educate children of the area left orphaned and destitute by a recent cholera outbreak. [5]
The home's design is marked by its Second Empire-style mansard roof, round-arched windows, and front porch. [3] It sits up high behind a retaining wall. [3] After the Merriweather Home shuttered in the early 1970s, it was converted to the Marie Key Day Care Center, which operated from 1975 to 1998. [2]
Demi Moore and Bruce Willis were all smiles as they posed together to celebrate daughter Tallulah Willis’s 30th birthday. In a pic posted via Instagram, Moore, 61, and Willis, 68, glanced at ...
The Waifs at the annual Falls Festival in late 2007. The Waif's fifth studio album, Sun Dirt Water, was released in September 2007. It debuted and peaked at No. 2. [12] Vikki had written the title song, "Sun Dirt Water", after meeting her husband. [15]