vineland related

[Williams Kris A SSgt 305 MDSS/SGSL]

I think they mean this place:
 
Training School for Feeble-minded Girls and Boys
http://www.vineland.org/history/trainingschool/index.html
 
The onetime home to the father of intelligence testing (and other things), Henry Goddard. http://www.indiana.edu/~intell/goddard.shtml
 
Goddard wrote The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness.  http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Goddard/
 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Kumpe [mailto:kumpe3000 at gmx.de] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 3:06 AM
To: Ownwer P-list
Subject: vineland related
 
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.
 
ŠIronically, 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 bogsŠ
 
from:
http://www.deoxy.org/inc2.htm
 
 
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