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Hey, brew tender, spend a little time with us!
Continue reading Retro Rumson Cold Brew Tenders’ TGIFA look, in photos, of latest area events, local everyday people and places.
Hey, brew tender, spend a little time with us!
Continue reading Retro Rumson Cold Brew Tenders’ TGIFThey got hosed. It was a modern suburban scene that looked like a vintage city kids’ summer spree. But it wasn’t. It was just yesterday. And it was in a small town — Rumson.
Call it Fire Company No. 1 — number one as in first place winner.
Continue reading Scene Around: Fire Company Hose, Ladder & Spirit WinJust sit right back and you’ll hear a tale … about an eight-hour tour, or hundreds, on the river in Rumson.
The part about this typical eight-hour tour in Rumson that doesn’t jibe with the three-hour tour Gilligan’s Island folks is that the kids on these “tours” sailed right into a marooning of their own making on what’s known as Starvation Island, just minutes from home. Who knew or cared, though? No one except the jolly river adventurers.
The heat is on and the countdown has already begun to the Fair Haven Firemen’s Fair.
And, back in the day, the 1960s day, the fire department, rather than raffling off a car, SUV or a big chunk of cash (as in Super 50/50), decided to make a boat the prized prize of the fair. And they advertised that with the help of some fire department-affiliated bathing beauties.
Continue reading Retro Fair Haven Gals’ Fair Show BoatingThere’s nothing like chillin’ among best RFH friends on a hot summer night. And there’s nothing like those friends doing the same thing nearly 50 years later.
A reprise in honor of the heat of summer, the warmest of times and freedom and fun times at the Fair Haven Dock among kid friends …
Summer fun in Fair Haven doesn’t get any simpler or more treasured than ending the day down by the Fair Haven Dock, sand between the toes, a few antics up the sleeve, a little seaweed in the shorts, and a crab or 20. Dock time has been a time-honored tradition for kids since, well, the dawn of time.
Reprise, because it’s a scorcher of a summer …
The scorching summer heat lately has made taking a flying leap into a fountain, or any body of water, a goal to which many aspire — and attain as the need to cool down beckons.
In fact, summer days, for RFHers, weren’t always all about beach clubbing it and keeping cool, fun times local.
It’s a case of summer island plopping. Yes, that’s right. Island plopping.
That would be the more accurate term when telling the pretty common story of some Fair Haven and Rumson kids taking their own eight-hour tour of the Navesink and Shrewsbury rivers and ending up settling down for some adventure on Starvation Island in Rumson on pretty much any summer day.
A reprise in honor of beating the heat of summer days with a little backyard pool dip, dressing for the occasion, and those first, best neighborhood friends …
Back in the summer of ’65 … the heat was on, and some pint-sized bathing beauties were set to walk the walk, if the suit and the bathing cap fit.
Hey, Mr. Tamborine kid, play a song for us!
It wasn’t all about the guitar strumming, singing and parading on patriotic holidays only.
In the name of the late Keith McHeffey, there are now two more grads of his Alma Mater added to the KDM Foundation’s scholarship list.
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