Dan Hinckley

To the editor: Mr. Conkling instructs us, in the July issue (p. 35), that the proper way to pronounce the name of the island is “I’ll -a hoe” (perhaps because someone on Chebeague “she bigue, she-BIG, ch-beeg” told him so). I often heard from my grandfather and father (Bangor, Southwest Harbor) that the name of

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