vineland related

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

Hello,

Vineland NJ is also the location of the "remobilization farm" where the
"Black Doctor" treats the protagonist Jake Horner with "Mythotherapy"
in John Barth's _The End of the Road_. Dirk Vanderbeke (of Greifswald)
has written a comparative essay on the Vinelands of TRP and JB:
http://www.diss.sense.uni-konstanz.de/amerika/vanderbeke.htm
and the great Bonnie Surfus brought up the Barth reference on the p-list,
I guess it was in 1994 (later on, she took her hubby's last name which I
have forgotten - perhaps actively, as I personally happen to like it
better when women keep their last names when they marry).


Heikki

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Kumpe wrote:

> 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
>
>
>