I-40 passes through the main commercial area of Swannanoa, which is focused around the Ingles supermarket and gas station.
It is based in the city of Porto Inglês, island of Maio, Cape Verde.
The story of Ingles' ordeal has inspired a number of books, films, and living history programs, including the popular 1981 novel Follow the River by James Alexander Thom, a 1995 ABC television movie of the same name, and the 2004 film The Captives.
Edvaldo Silva Soares, best known locally for Tote Xinoca, is son of Maria Augusta Silva ( Xinoca Dada) and Marcelino Soares (Txala), and born April 30, 1985 in City of Porto Inglês, Island of Maio, precisely in an area called Cadjitinha.
Ingles Ferry was originally a farm and small plantation owned by William Ingles, husband of Mary Draper Ingles.
Xaudaró's observations on contemporary culture and technology, as well as his gentle but insightful sense of humor, are apparent in such cartoons as "El telégrafo sin hilos," "Un retrato futurista," "El auto que pasa," "Despertar en Biarritz," "El leopardo inglés en Spyon-Kop."
These include Smith's, Kroger and Safeway (each through both its own name and many of its regional chain names), Winn-Dixie, Harris Teeter, Ingles, Giant Eagle, Tops, Price Chopper, ShopRite, A&P and its related chains Pathmark, SuperFresh and Waldbaums, Wegmans, Stop & Shop and sister chains Giant-Carlisle and Giant-Landover, Rite Aid, Walgreens and CVS/pharmacy.
The Spanish author Emilio Calderón claims in his novel "La Bailarina y el Inglés" that in the town of Frankenberg the Nazis had a broadcasting facility that helped Subhas Chandra Bose, the assigned leader of India after the Endsieg, to propagate his ideological views to his countrymen all over the globe (see: La Bailarina y el Inglés by Emilio Calderón, ed. Grupo Planeta, Barcelona 2009).
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It has several big box stores and supermarkets, notably Walmart, Lowe's, and an Ingles supermarket.
The city is still (colloquially) known by its old name, Porto Inglês (Portuguese for "English port" in which was founded, Cape Verdean Creole: Port’ Inglês), in opposition of the older Porto Português (present day Calheta).
Ingles called in the local militia, whereupon the Riot Act was read and the island taken.