Show r y s i 1 P I 4 e f l AA y A l lr r t r e p t fi a t i l w y erA WP St fie t 4 J 6 Ar h x f M L t 4 1 St 1 5 i sty 3 S 2 s t L fl aP r r r a GIdEl By ELMO SCOTT WATSON NE of ot the love lore stories In American literature one of c Americas America's loved best poets poet who ho made mae that love tory story Immortal are areto areto to bo have ha bonD an nD enduring memorial In Inthe inthe the form of ot a national pork parts of C 1000 acres If It present plans are carried forward ard to a sl successful conJo con con- Hon Jo That story Is la the story of ot the quest otao of ot ao the maiden for her lover lo 1 poet port Is 19 Henry Wadsworth orth Longfellow v who t me her hor epic of love 1010 and devotion demotion and the set Is li the establishment of ot n a notional national reserve reserve- T 1 near St St. Ills Ills' Ln La to be Lc known as 01 1 dio ello National Memorial 1 park In la Louisiana tho the descendants of ot Evan Evan- lines line's people the ns have formed n aLong Long Long- o ellne EVI National Park os association tho the of or which Is stated by Its' Its as fol- fol r To build a n great national memorial t to the Miens darns to erect a n splendid bronze rep rep- Longfellow and the rile heroine of ot his poem the Aro Acadian nn maiden molden of ot Grand Grund Pro Pre l re ene me the n E Oak Oak- Oaka a tree more than If r hun hundred years ol old also the ancient trees and ond d St St. the scone scene of ot the poem preserve the ancient brick building which nib near the oak and antI which was as the trading t I if of r the Indians and ond to build n a Pam In which wI will wili be he kept the records and 1 inn ignes used by the early Acadian Acadian- and Trench French I wind rents into as well as os n a record of ot I to o that the lives ll of these the people whom Immortalized d. d may be studied by this ration and generations to come como I h ji with this plan o the tho a association In is 1 the aid uld of e every of ot Louisiana to top toto to p the first drat t national park In the South Stith located i Ih the state It has already wired Illation 1 of iO by hy the state 1 legislature lre I Irb eh MS mp made e possible the purchase of ot n a tract l vi at least 2 o acres and It Is t asking the federal eminent for an appropriation of ot In int t r that n more re land os a ranch much ns DR 1000 o acres If It may sable ma Ibe-ma hP he bought The project Is more moro morel a one l tn to to tooter lo local nl pride since by It th the of ot that section may be he made It Apparent mode to the tho thoL JB o L I of f touring l from all parts of tho Iho country I n me I ro l the Acadian country ry II e every I u 11 for or that lon the pork park has hag n a national It t 1 hns has nn an International sl that french will be he p Invited Incited 1 hat art In thus Ihu lion honoring orin the memory of ot those of ot 1 Tp M MI their Who V I o aU many yea is O. nea were forced homes and l K Kin gu 1 Into exile JI I d I jn l n the plans in for fr the park are nrc those Ce e for Of Off nt a. I i Loup of f Longfellow and his two Evangeline and This elt will m I r- r be pin pIli Id us nearly as ns possible to the thet here tradition says E E Evangeline e kept ln her r rIt t K Ith It t II the lle lover Pr ot of f her youth Near far It will be I hita IP Wading K pool aid nUlI about this will stand th the L T p r I sIn n c of Youth Madness lid nd I I o 0 ewer all l OI i a as P exemplified In the poem this artificial the tile beauty will win tower f 1 I. I h oaks onks and anel cypress trees trIs which are aro aror r I t Pl Mature feature of tho the Louisiana i ft r 0 lib I 1 b bt as an One ne no of the tho beauty spots In the thA 1101 park JM zd n nan lo 11 l garden In which will be ha hal toven lier her l t 11 b by 1 th tho as 1111 Evangeline tended In of ot MInus Minna and amI through which had t PI PU e d walks winding around ll quiet pools tb r Ih Of whoso whose only ony modern b be n that hut the ll driveways for tor motorists the theu mark I u k th the entrance and the lighting u to I Cht cb Mil ma slake 1 Po possible lWe the use uso of the thel It l ib the park Is 9 situated In tho the Mullen Acadian land h d 11 1 tU UK sill lie be a 11 memorial to the he he It U less lell a memorial to tn Longfellow the Pt rite I t Iy ly 1 n the of ot runny many i of e rt flu tra of America merica It i th litre r a 8 symbolical of Long Long- H tn Tb le iron Cad t thoR Irs Tho Iron mid United rift flare United to lire ure uniting to ref e eR ea Vir R o. o a O bT z aN erect a Ii statuary g. g 4 ull UJ depleting depicting The Village Blacksmith will be Immortalized In bronze by contributions from the Indians of ot the two t countries and an nn effort will be made to Interest the school children ren of ot America In giving penny c contributions which will make possible a statue appropriate to The Childrens Children's Hour A Although h they were characters of ot fiction there once one did live liTe n a Gabriel ane and an l Evangeline n whose love tory story Inspired Inn Longfellow's poem The name of ot the real Evangeline was the fait faithless bless Gabriel was Louis Arceneaux Arceneaux Arce Are neaux naux and their life story Is c n part of ot the tragic tale of ot the simple folk of Acadia who were deported by British soldiery from their homes away D. back In 17 The were l French colonists who hull hud settled In what Is now Nova Scotia lu in 1007 and who lived a happy contented existence In III their homes In th the New hew world until In the maelstrom of world orld politics s. s stirred op up by the contest between n I En England 0 1111 and France to decide which nation was WOl to dominate the North American continent In th the series of ot wars Vars between the two countries which began In AcadIa va was wasa a pawn on the International chess chessboard now BOW hold held holdby by the French and now by the British As s for the themselves they were Ire In tn Inthe inthe the main neutral In rn fact they wore often referred to In the official papers of ot the time II as the Neutral Neutral Neu u. u Fl French While the tho sympathies of most t of ot thorn them no doubt loaned leaned toward their own o countrymen country country- men and some of ot them supported the French Frend cause for the most part they wished Ishell to be left lone alone In their pursuits as IS farmers and fishermen The question of ot their allegiance was never ne definitely settled ott after r nay any of ot the treaties of ot pence but In with Ith I France and Englund girding for the he final decisive struggle the found themselves caught between bet tho the upper and nether millstones of British ond and French demands for their loyalty In that your ur the thC British who then held Acadia d decided l fl that t the were an enemy encamped encamped en en- camped In the heart of It the province and determined deter deter- mined rl to force n a showdown show They reiterated a demand that had been made mon many years before but which had hud never been Insisted ted upon upon tint the take rake nn on oath of allegiance to the British crown upon pain of ot forfeiture of their rights right II nut and lands 1 What follow followed ed Is well described 1 by ty Olor George surge e M SI Wrong In III the Conquest of ot New In Intha Inthe Inthe the tha Yale Yolo Chronicles of ot America Be III follows The thing was wn done dnn In the summer ummer and autumn of et 1765 1155 Colonel nob Robert rt a regular officer ton son of or nn an IrUh peer who always showed an n Ineffable h. h In- In effable superiority to tn provincial pro officer under him Slim was Wall placed In charge of ot the Ih work ork lie Uto ordered the male Inhabitants inhabitant of or the of or Heau l to 0 most moet him there en the th tenth of August Only about ona third one of nr them came dome nome rout four hundred H Jr toM told them that the Ih government at Halifax now dt declared lare t them the rebels re Their lands land forfeited they themselves them them- and all goods 18 were selves ulve were ere to be kept In prison Not yet t ho how holy Ye Y- Y ur wa wis wu made known to 0 them the decision that Hint e ever they were to be treated a. a traitors traitor of or whom the lite province must mut be rId rM No attempt was o made any where to distinguish loyal loyat from disloyal ml l at Halifax gave Clive Major Maior Lawrence British governor orders r to the military military meen to clear cier t the country of or all aU to 1 got gel them by an any necessary on board the transports transport which would carry them means meRna away and te burn boOM orabe abe and forced 10 0 that that not t caught might perish or be forced winter At the surrender during the coming to reaped or was been moment the harvest bad Suet lilt the stern work ork was a. a done At 0 Orand ran A h Pre re When Windsor at Anna Annapolis poll there no now at t harrowing scenes In command of the work wore He Colonel ColOMI Winslow an from lre Iro was Wall Orand at t ot or w whoso tI Int M asat SUa h II were to to be drive e Of or their live yearn later trim their own hone the British loyalty oya to land of Acadia setla l' l I to 0 this very In Boston to all the male Inte In- In French lumm summons In te Issued II a corns come to 10 the th to lads lad o of f ten ti n down t to Friday Frida the Wh fifth ef or Sep Hep Pre lre o on at church orders order r he had II II to I to I learn cZ n the nut appear varo wc II ma hir 1 Those lole who goods good No do doubt man many of th the dId no nor understand the summons Pow Few of or them could read and It hardly mattered to thorn them that on one Ocea occa ton nian a notice on the th church door was posted upside down Some SoTie tour four hundred bundred anxious I appeared ap ap- JI ared Winslow read rad to them a proclamation to the effect that their hou houses net and lands tande were forfeited for for- felted and that they themselves and their ramille I were to be deported Five v v vessels fl oli from DOli Boston ton lay layat layat layat at Orand Grand lre Ire In time more arrived but chill October h hid d td come before Winslow wn was finally ready rendy Hy fly this time the realized what was wan to happen The men were Joined by their families As A. A far tar aa U possible tho the people of the same g. were kept tep together They Thy were forced to march to the transports transport a sorrow laden company women c carrying rr babe In their arms I old and an decrepit people borne In to carts carte young and strong trong men mn drag gins Kins what belongings belonging they could gather Windows Window's low task UK e he hll says Bays lay heavy havy on his hie heart and hands It hurts hurta me m. to hear hoar their weeping and walling wailing and anet gnashing of nf teeth teth By the first of ot November he had embarked t. t 1500 unhappy people Ills 1118 last lt ship load he sent Rent off orr on the thirteenth of ot December The Uttering suffering from cold colet must mat have ha been terrible In Jn nil all from Orand Pre and other places more than were deported They were scattered In tn the English colonies from Maine Stains to Georgia and In tn both France and England Many died many helpless helle e In new surroundings sank lank I Into decrepit pauperism Some Sane reached re people of their own blood In to the French colony colon of Louisiana and Canada Cl Among those who came to Louisiana V was young y Louis Louie v who ho hod had become separated sep from his sweetheart s Emmerline amid who Fettled set Fet tied on Bayou Tlc n a stream which winds In Inand inand and out like n snake hence Its name which Is the Indian term for snake Here too ten years later inter came camo I U who hud had been heln mourning the loss of ot her hr lover tover And the soul of the maiden between the stars and the tho fireflies Wandered alone and cried O 0 Gabriel O 0 m my beloved I Art thou so o near unto me m. and anet yet Jet I J cannot behold thee Ah how often thy feet t hive have trod this path to the h pra prairie I I At lt II found her lover lr and tradition says that the meeting took tonk place beneath the bis III torte ello Oak on the Hayou where she learned lornEIl tint her faithless lover tr mer hind had married another It was wall the till story of nt Labiche and ond Louis told to Longfellow when he was nn an Instructor nt at Harvard by br n a student from Louisiana liter later JUIlle Henry Simon which tbt the port poet wo wove WO e Into his hili famous poem If It you jou ou visit St St. La Ia today they wll will point polut out to tn you jou Ou the hou hu house 1 e where Gabriel Lout Arceneaux Arceneau once onre lived and arid they will take you ou t U td the spot pot near the loft left win wing of the tho old St St. Martin Catholic church e established In 1701 til by lIy Father Jean Francois n Capuchin missionary where sloops sleeps I lIu 1 cr It Tt II Is not lIot strictly true as II I. I Longfellow has bOil u written It that Side by side Ide In tn their Irra crave the tb lovers lover I nr Art are sleeping Meaning Cn J r the humble walls of or the little Catholic churchyard In the th heart of the city they lie tae unknown and al unnoticed d. d Dally Daily the th tI tides 1 of life go ebbing and flowing be betide be tide side theta them nut But If It you 01 en go n there you will II still hoar hear tho the soft tt accents of f tilt Acadian tongue end you may learn that t uron upon occasion Maidens till st weir wear their heir Norman caps cape and their kitties klU of or homespun And L by the evening flee nr repeat J Kvan story For Tor the descendants of the filled exiled nr lire are proud of It their with lIh Its heritage of sorrow T Iud and In this country try of ot primitive beauty they live ly yet extending ln always u n hospitality to the stranger that warms the heart urt It In In honor of there simple kindly people who ho have left their I forceful poi tho the gray rny granite virtues of honesty and ond uprightness I piety lint anti nl power In the civil d records throughout the f States I the country they hav have done so EO much 10 to develop tint the Lon al lIne rational National Menlo Memo Hut park Is la tn to II ho e r for tor the roeDt of nil ull Americans American |