On a clear day … nothing will astound you quite like a front row seat to a river view and a burger from Barnacle Bill’s in Rumson.
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Category Archives: Local Life
A look, in photos, of latest area events, local everyday people and places.
Focus: Remembering Superstorm Sandy’s Wrath
A reprise from 2017. Taking you back again after eight years … Remember?
It was the year that Halloween wasn’t, but was in a sense. People in the area woke up to a nightmare, if they slept at all the night before. It was 2012 and Superstorm Sandy had pummeled the Jersey Shore. It decimated Sea Bright and destroyed low lying parts of Rumson. Fair Haven was a bit war torn and powerless.
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Retro RFH Halloween Parade Prep
Photo/George Day
In honor of the Halloween season, a reprise Retro Pic of the Day originally posted in 2015 …
It’s all about Halloween festivities in an unprecedented trick, treat and haunting era right now in the Rumson-Fair Haven area. There’s distancing where there was a lot of congregating. And while the era of high alert for razors in apples is a bygone one, now there’s a pandemic, rules about touching, masking, more masking, less tricking and more careful treating. But, the Halloween show goes on.
So, to honor the crowded gathering of ghouls in socially distanced days, we take a look back at the RFH prep for parading as all seniors packed themselves into the lounge, mingled and tried to figure out who was what and why and just have some fun.
Focus: Black & White; Skyline from Sea Bright
Photos/Elaine Van Develde
It’s black and white. The view of the New York skyline from Sea Bright public beach is unfettered artistry on a clear day. Stark comparison.
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Retro Hip, Hip, Hippie Hill Hunt Hooray!
Photos/Glenn McCauley
Ohhhh, it’s still a quarter past Hunt time of the year and visions of Hippie Hill have been dancing in people’s heads. But, some visions are quite different than others.
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Scene Around: Witchy Women’s River Paddle Haunt
It’s not every day that you can spy more than a coven’s worth of witches paddling down the river — just Saturday.
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Scene Around: Commandeering a Coffin
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It’s not every day that you stop at a gas station and almost get run over by a masked Dracula-commandeered coffin. This ghoul guy was running on empty when he swung into the station in Highlands with flailing cape gusto and had a little topple at the pump.
“Did ya get that?” the masked marauder said as he picked himself up from the pavement and dusted off his cape. All gassed up and set in his coffin ride, he gave us a few waves and went on his way.
Just who was that masked Halloween treat of a man? No clue. Uber? No back seat. Can’t exactly commandeer that ride. But, hey, if the coffin fits, take a spin and a little spill.
— Photos/Elaine Van Develde
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Retro Falling for Three RFH Guys & a Skateboard
Photo/George Day
Back by popular demand … A reprise of this fall day of skateboarding in the 1970s for some pandemic cheer.
You’ve seen them before … this crew of daring, not so diabolical RFH guys who had a little skateboarding club. Call these views the triple threats.
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Focus: Rumson Gull Friends’ River Heaven
It’s often been viewed as a slice of heaven — solace time down by the Navesink River.
And on a sunny fall Sunday, the seagulls were basking in the scene on the banks of the river in Rumson. A gentle fluff of clouds embraced a blue sky and peering sun with warmth as the gulls manned heaven’s gate.
Swoop with the gulls into the slice of this utopia. They’ve called you home — to this heaven.
(Click to enlarge and scroll. Enjoy!)
— Photos/Elaine Van Develde
Focus: Freedom Festival Rockin’ in Sea Bright
A sunny Sunday made for a festival first in Sea Bright.
In a niche by the boardwalk, music played for a few hours as people gathered to soak up some seaside sun, listen to speakers, take part in activities, peruse booths and tents, mingle and gather resource information for addiction recovery as the First Annual Fall Freedom Festival got underway.
The aim of the festivals is to “offer free resources for freedom from addiction, fear and co-dependency,” a banner said. “Uniting Resources for the Courage to Change,” the subhead of the banner said.
Take at the photo gallery below for a glimpse into the event … (Click to enlarge!)
Retro RFH Fall R & R
Photo/RFH Yearbook
A reprise as an ode to an old normal and return of those sunny fall days we’ve been having …
Everyone’s falling for the summery fall in the Rumson-Fair Haven area lately. It makes an RFH student want to escape the classroom with a spring fever-like fervor.
Retro RFH Aides’ Time Out
You’ve seen it before, but it warrants a reprise. With the recent death of aide Joan Blake RFHers all over are reminiscing about their time, or doing time, with those RFH aides. And every good RFH grad knows that they sometimes had to resort to techniques to tame us beasts that likely would get them in a heap of trouble, just like misbehaving students, if they were implemented nowadays. So, we revisit doing hard time in the library with those aides at RFH on a rainy day laden with those doldrums that they always seemed to chase away, even if it was with a chair …
Once upon a time, when the rain started, so did the antics in the library at RFH. And there to keep everyone in line and keep up one step, or a char, ahead of the antsy foul weather pranksters were those library aides.
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