Learn the true history of The Day They Gave Babies Away in this month’s YouTube program Librarian Learns, and then join us in the library's Lower Level for a screening of Hollywood’s interpretation of the story – the 1956 film All Mine to Give.

Summary
It's Christmastime as young Robbie Eunson pulls his little sister on a sled through the snow to a snug house in the woods. But this is no yuletide treat. Instead, Robbie is fulfilling the promise he made to their dying mother -- that he would find a home for each of the six orphaned Eunson children.

All Mine to Give follows pioneers Mamie and Robert Eunson (Glynis Johns and Cameron Mitchell) through hardship, hard work and joy in 19th-century Wisconsin as they raise a family united by love. It's a love that will stay with the children after their parents are tragically gone, giving them the strength to turn terrible loss into a triumph of the human spirit.