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Janice Price
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Hi Sarah,

I’ll address your scheduling question in a subsequent post but just wanted to add a little historical anecdote to the pronunciation question.

From the Miquon School website:

“The name Miquon (“Mee-kwon”) refers to the area approximately bounded by Manor Road, Barren Hill Road, and the Schuylkill River. Residents still refer to it as “Miquon”, although the Miquon Post Office and zip code were discontinued in the 1990s, and technically Miquon falls within the borough of Conshohocken. The origin of the name is said to derive from a meeting of Lenni-Lenape tribesmen with William Penn, who demonstrated the meaning of his name by holding up a goose feather (quill pen), at which the men exclaimed, ‘Ah … mi-quon!'”
~ Janice