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4 unusual facts about Vineland


Tristan Emmanuel

He operated a small freight delivery company in Ontario's Niagara region in the 1990s, and served as the pastor of Living Hope Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Vineland.

Vineland

Vineland may be a play on the word "Hollywood", a reference to the first Viking settlement in North America, Vinland, or a reference to Andrey Vinelander, a character in Vladimir Nabokov's Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle.

Wanda Tinasky

In 1990, Bruce Anderson, the editor of the AVA, read Thomas Pynchon's Vineland, a novel set in northern California.

WPPX-TV

When Vineland, New Jersey-based independent WSJT (channe 65, now WUVP-DT) was sold to Home Shopping Network later that year, WTGI planned to acquire that station's programming inventory of mostly 1950s sitcoms.


Boonville, California

Some commentators believe Boonville may be the setting for the novel Vineland (1990) by Thomas Pynchon.

Hollywood Black Friday

Thomas Pynchon later would use some of these events as backstory in his novel Vineland.

New Jersey Route 54

What is now Route 54 was originally legislated in 1938 to run from US 30/US 206 in Hammonton south to Main Road in Landis Township (part of present-day Vineland).

New Jersey Route 55

The route passes to the east of WheatonArts, which also home to the Creative Glass Center of America, before turning northwest and crossing into Vineland, where it interchanges with CR 555.


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