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5 unusual facts about Wayland


Alvaro Pascual-Leone

Pascual-Leone lives in Wayland, Massachusetts with his wife Elizabeth and their three children.

Curtis H. Castle

-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->Practiced in Fulton County, Illinois, and in Wayland, Iowa, until 1882.

Wayland Student Press

Wayland Student Press Network (WSPN) is the online news medium of Wayland High School in Wayland, Massachusetts.

Wayland's Smithy

It is conjectured that the invisible smith may have been linked to this site for many centuries before the Saxons recognized him as Wayland.

Julian Cope included a song called ""Wayland's Smithy Has Wings"" on his 1992 album The Skellington Chronicles.


Accidental incest

In the series The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare, Jace Wayland and Clary Fray fall in love before their father tells them that they are brother and sister.

Allen Morgan

Allen Morgan (Allen Hungerford Morgan) (August 12, 1925 – May 13, 1990) of Wayland, Massachusetts was a noted ornithologist, tireless environmental advocate, avid tennis player, and founder of Sudbury Valley Trustees.

Judsonia, Arkansas

Though the school died in 1883, the town streets still bear the names of several well-known 19th-century Baptists: Judson and Hasseltine (after Adoniram Judson and his wife, Ann Hasseltine Judson), Wayland (after Francis Wayland, president of Brown University in Rhode Island), Wade (after missionary Jonathan Wade) and Boardman (after missionary George Boardman, whose widow, Sarah Hall Boardman became Judson's second wife).

Julius Wayland

The success of Appeal to Reason led again to personal attacks on Wayland in the conservative press, particularly The Los Angeles Times.

New York State Route 21

While NY 15 continues north from the village into Livingston County, NY 21 leaves Wayland on an east–west alignment, roughly paralleling the northern county line and a B&H Rail Corporation line as it runs through a valley surrounding the Cohocton River.

Ravenscar, North Yorkshire

The name of the village is featured in a double episode (The Swords of Wayland) of the 1980s television show, Robin of Sherwood, although the actual filming locations for Ravenscar, as featured in the episodes, were in Cornwall and Somerset.

Tom Wayland

Tom Wayland is an American musician, actor, voice actor, ADR director, producer and dubbing supervisor at 4Kids Entertainment, DuArt Film and Video, NYAV Post, Real Recording, Matlin Recording, Beatstreet Studios and Audioworks Producers Group.

Turn It On, Turn It Up, Turn Me Loose

"Turn It On, Turn It Up, Turn Me Loose" is a song written by Kostas and Wayland Patton, and recorded by American country music artist Dwight Yoakam.

Vokes Theatre

A wall exists showing the signatures of some of those who came to Wayland including Ellen Terry, George Arliss, Florence Arliss, Katharine Cornell; the house archives show that other guests included diva Geraldine Farrar, and actors Ethel Barrymore, John Drew, Norah Bayes, and others.

Wayland Baptist University

Devon Morris, Former track and field athlete for Wayland Baptist University.

The Malouf Abraham Family Arts Center on the Wayland campus was endowed by the family of the late State Representative Malouf Abraham, Sr., and his son, Malouf Abraham, Jr., a retired allergist and active art collector from Canadian, the seat of Hemphill County in the northeastern Texas Panhandle.

Wayland Hand

Wayland Debs Hand (March 19, 1907, Auckland, New Zealand – October 22, 1986, Moon Township, Pennsylvania, United States) was an American folklorist.

Wayland the Smith

During the Viking Age in northern England, Wayland is depicted in his smithy, surrounded by his tools, at Halton, Lancashire, and fleeing from his royal captor by clinging to a flying bird, on crosses at Leeds, West Yorkshire, and at Sherburn-in-Elmet and Bedale, both in North Yorkshire.

Waylands Forge Studios

The music for the sixth Bal-Sagoth album, The Chthonic Chronicles, was recorded at Wayland's Forge, as was the music for the My Dying Bride release Evinta, along with various releases by bands such as Necrogrinder, Ethereal, Seconds to Slaughter and Torsion Nine.

Winter People

Into a small, poor Appalachian Mountains community in the Great Depression era arrive a young widower, Wayland Jackson, a clockmaker, and his 12-year-old daughter.


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