I read the article about immigrants in the Sun Journal, “Exhibit reflects 400 years if immigration to Maine” (Sunday, Feb. 14), and was left wondering if any of the English immigrants to Maine had any influence in the development of this state.

The Wabanaki had been in Maine for about 1,000 years before Europeans, but only nameless and faceless immigrants arrived before the French came in the late 1800s and the English and Irish were the villains who were here opposing their coming.

I feel that people of English heritage are being marginalized in contemporary society and that their contribution to America is being intentionally diminished

Sterling Hinkley, Turner

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