WATERVILLE — Nathan Choate of Albion received the Eagle Scout medal during a ceremony conducted by China Troop 479 in his honor May 10 at Mount Merici Academy.
Choate was presented the Albion 2023 Spirit of America Foundation Award in “recognition of his outstanding and commendable community service to the Town of Albion” in March.
His Eagle Scout Service Project revitalized the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Monument. The project required more than 200 hours of labor shared by Scouts and Scouters as well as Albion residents. A Colby College Lovejoy land grant provided the funding needed for the effort.
Hilton Drake and Stephanie Drake Choate’s ancestors and the Lovejoys were two of the five founding families in Albion, formerly known as Freetown Plantation, in 1790. Elijah Parish Lovejoy attended Waterville College (now Colby) and is known as one of the first martyrs to freedom of the press and the abolitionist movement, killed in 1837 in Alton, Illinois. Colby’s language arts building bears his name.
Choate is the son of Michael and Stephanie Drake Choate and he attends Erskine Academy.
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