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Before and after by judy christie7/6/2023 TCHS sent more than 5,000 children to eager would-be parents from coast to coast, many of whom were too old or otherwise ineligible to adopt children through traditional routes. Protected by Memphis politicians and judges, Tann ruthlessly swept up choice babies from the docks, streets and backwoods of Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi. “Piecing together stories of siblings who struggled for decades to find one another brings to my mind those movies where the hero absolutely, positively refuses to give up,” Christie writes. Co-authors Lisa Wingate and Judy Christie have collected some of those stories in "Before and After: The Incredible Real-Life Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society."Īfter reading Wingate’s 2017 novel based on Tann’s activities, "Before We Were Yours," Connie Wilson, one of the TCHS adoptees, emailed the author with a stunning idea: “Have you considered a reunion?” Intrigued, Wingate pulled her friend and fellow author Christie into the project, and the three women began searching for Wilson’s fellow adoptees. Less familiar, but equally heartbreaking, are the long searches many of those adoptees have made for their birth families. The horrors of the Tennessee Children’s Home Society - Georgia Tann’s adoption mill that flourished in Memphis from 1924 until Tann’s death in 1950 - are now well known. Watch Video: Man with 1,500 'Harry Potter' books to auction part of collection
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