Boonville, California
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Boonville is an unincorporated town in Anderson Valley in Mendocino County, California. Located 115 miles north of San Francisco, Boonville is best known as the source of the Boontling folk constructed language. Bottles from the local brewery are labeled with the motto "It's bahl hornin'" which means "It's good drinkin'" in Boontling. In September Boonville hosts the annual Mendocino County Fair. In July the Wool-grower's Barbeque and Sheepdog Trials is held at the fairgrounds. A Pinot Noir Festival is held in May.
Boonville, despite its population of 1,370, has a minor reputation among political leftists in the USA for counterculture ideals, including promotion of organic food. The town serves as the setting for the novel Boonville (2001) by Robert Mailer Anderson. Some commentators believe Boonville may be the setting for the novel Vineland (1990) by Thomas Pynchon.
The town is known to Unificationists as the site of the successful but ill-fated Creative Community Project, lauded by church members for bringing in nearly one-third of the church's recruits in the US (and lambasted by detractors for the same).
External links
- The Anderson Valley Advertiser (http://www.theava.com) - the primary newspaper of Anderson Valley