vineland related

Wed Feb 25 02:06:05 CST 2004

Hi,
I found this mentioning of the name vineland on the web. Does or did this
facility really exist? How likely is it, that TRP knew about ist?
thanx,
Christian.

Ironically, Martine's ancestors once provided guinea pigs for a notorious
study in eugenics carried out in the 1920s at the Vineland NJ State Home
for the Insane. Published as a study in "heredity and feeblemindness," the
work proclaimed poverty, non-ordinary sexuality, reluctance to hold a
steady job, and enjoyment of intoxicants as proofs of genetic decay-and
thus made a lasting contribution to the legend of bizarre and lovecraftian
Piney backwoodspeople, incestuous hermits of the bogs

from:
http://www.deoxy.org/inc2.htm