A look, in photos, of latest area events, local everyday people and places.
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.
Continue reading Retro Rumson Island Ploppers 
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.
Continue reading Retro Neighborhood Bathing Beauty Besties 
Hey, Mr. Tamborine kid, play a song for us!
It wasn’t all about the guitar strumming, singing and parading on patriotic holidays only.
Continue reading Retro Fair Haven Folk Singers’ Patriotic Beat 
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.
Continue reading Scene Around: RFHers for the KDM Foundation Scholarship Win 
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.
Continue reading Retro RFH Boys’ Summer Dive 
It was all about the fireworks with a morning 5K run on the Fourth of July in Fair Haven.
Continue reading Scene Around: A Firecracker of a July 4th Race 
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.
Continue reading Retro Patriotic Peace Pals 
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.
Continue reading Retro Rumson Beach Boys’ Stand-Off
Cheers to Friday and that special Sea Bright corner in which many glasses were raised in a “TGIF! And here’s to good friends!”
Continue reading Retro Melody Corner ‘Cheers!’ 
Back in the day, Rumson summers weren’t all about going to the beach club from dawn ’til dusk.
For some, it was as simple skipping the packing up of the family, not to mention the cost, and just laying a blanket out on the lawn and catching some rays while the kids played.
Continue reading Retro Rumson Summer Scorcher Coolness 
Sun up! There’s nothing quite like a summer drive in a classic car with the top down, especially when it’s the summer of senior year. So, we’re re-running this piece just because the sun needs to shine on friendships and good times like these. There’s nothing quite as warm. Put the top down and take a drive back with us again …
The drive is all the better if it’s made with best friends. So, as a continuing ode to summer fun of the past at the hands of RFH teens, the Retro Pic of the Day encapsulates the whole idea — best friends, a cool ride and warm memories.
Continue reading Retro RFH Girls’ Last Summer DriveCall 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.
Continue reading Scene Around: Painting the Chapel with Community Love 
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