Loren Long: Hello, my name is Loren Long. Not the easiest name to pronounce. I always thought it would be easier if I had a name like Jim.

And the name Loren is a bit different for a guy. And for a time, when I was little, I got teased by some of the other kids.

It never really bothered me much because I was actually proud of my name. And how it was different than anyone else I knew.

But, the most interesting thing about my name, I think, is my last name, Long. My dad's father, my grandfather, was an orphan. Abandoned as a baby in an orphanage, in New York City. It was in the late 1890s and cities along the Eastern sea board, like New York City, had more homeless kids than they knew what to do with. So they loaded the kids on trains and sent them West----throughout the country--to be adopted along the way by families who wanted them. They called them the Orphan Trains.

My grandfather, Joseph, was put on a train in 1902, when he was just six years old. And he ended up traveling across the country and landed in Lexington, Missouri, where he was adopted by the Long family.