There’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.
Retro RFHers’ TGIF Among BFFs
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A look, in photos, of latest area events, local everyday people and places.
Retro Fair Haven Summer Dock Daze
Photo/Elaine Van Develde
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.
Retro Keepin’ it Cool with RFH Teens
Photo/Marc Edelman
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.
Retro Rumson Island Ploppers
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.
Retro Neighborhood Bathing Beauty Besties
Photo/Elaine Van Develde
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.
Retro Fair Haven Folk Singers’ Patriotic Beat
Hey, Mr. Tamborine kid, play a song for us!
It wasn’t all about the guitar strumming, singing and parading on patriotic holidays only.
Scene Around: RFHers for the KDM Foundation Scholarship Win
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.
Retro RFH Boys’ Summer Dive
Photo/RFH Class of ’79 reunion slideshow Paul Hughes
Summer reprise originally posted in the summer of 2015, just because … What’s summer without some crazy RFH guys and a dive?
Swim, anyone? Waterless ballet? More like whatever works in a cement pond without the water. And this bunch of RFH guys made it work.
Scene Around: A Firecracker of a July 4th Race
It was all about the fireworks with a morning 5K run on the Fourth of July in Fair Haven.
Retro Patriotic Peace Pals
Photo /courtesy of Karen Allas
A red-white-and-blue patriotic reprise, just because July 4th is tomorrow …
Peace out. Patriotism. Well-played play date, kids. They were not crooks and they were no Richard Nixon wannabes. But they were at least budding impersonators. Perhaps. Or just era-inspired posers.
Retro Rumson Beach Boys’ Stand-Off
Photo/ courtesy of Cindy Crowley
A reprise in honor of those “just beachy” days of summer … Here’s to summer days in Sea Bright!
Call them the 60s beach boys of Rumson. They were … from Rumson and on the beach. Boys on the beach. Yeah, that’s it.
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Scene Around: Painting the Chapel with Community Love
Call it a Fair Haven of a community giving day.
The folks at Fair Haven Fisk AME Chapel would answer that with an “Amen!” A call for help in sprucing up the chapel that anchors much of Fair Haven’s history, more like its actual roots, was put out and the community heeded it.
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