{"id":39516,"date":"2011-01-24T11:54:03","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T16:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=39516"},"modified":"2016-02-09T13:55:44","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T18:55:44","slug":"bill-green-alonzo-garcelon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2011\/01\/24\/bill-green-alonzo-garcelon\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Green&#039;s Maine tells story of early Bates champion Alonzo Garcelon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent segment on <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcsh6.com\/life\/programming\/local\/bill_greens_maine\/story.aspx?storyid=144498&amp;catid=10\">Bill Green&#8217;s Maine,<\/a> <\/em>produced by WCSH-TV in Portland,<em> <\/em>sheds light on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alonzo_Garcelon\">Alonzo Garcelon<\/a>, a Lewiston native and 19th-century Maine governor, instrumental in bringing the Maine State Seminary, forerunner of Bates College, to Lewiston. (At Bates, his name graces the <a href=\"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/garcelon\/\">college-community  philanthropic partnership<\/a> and the football field.)<\/p>\n<p>Green&#8217;s story notes that after Maine voters elected Lewiston native Paul LePage, a Republican of French Canadian heritage, as governor in November, some called Garcelon Maine&#8217;s first Franco American governor.<\/p>\n<p>Not exactly, explains Green, who interviews Garcelon&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/views\/2008\/03\/27\/archives-receive-garcelon-papers\/\">great-great-grandson David<\/a> and visits Bates&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/abacus.bates.edu\/muskie-archives\/\">Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library<\/a>, which houses <a href=\"http:\/\/abacus.bates.edu\/muskie-archives\/EADFindingAids\/MC106.html\">the Garcelon family papers.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While Gov. LePage&#8217;s Roman Catholic family  came to Maine from  French-speaking Canada, Green says, the Garcelon family&#8217;s French connections are much less distinct.<\/p>\n<p>The Garcelon ancestors fled France for England in the early  1700s during the persecution of the Huguenots (French Protestants). In fact, Alonzo Garcelon&#8217;s great-great-grandfather Pierre was an Episcopal priest on Guersey island, long a British dependency in the English Channel, in the mid-1700s. His son James emigrated to America in 1752, settling in Lewiston in 1776 after fleeing Falmouth the night before it was <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Burning_of_Falmouth\">burned by the British.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent segment on Bill Green&#8217;s Maine, produced by WCSH-TV in Portland,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[31,32,17,11009],"tags":[11051,3749,10830,10834],"class_list":["post-39516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lewiston-auburn","category-maine-and-new-england","category-partners-public","category-the-college","tag-bates-in-the-news","tag-garcelon-society","tag-lewiston-auburn","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93343,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39516\/revisions\/93343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}