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Play ball! Well, spring has arrived and RFH Baseball season has begun. And RFH players are set for a home run of a season, as usual.
Retro RFH Baseball Dugout Homerun
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Retro RFH Spring Fever Frolicking
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Reprise! Just because … Let’s hear it for spring fever and waiting for the sun to reappear!
OK, so the spring weather outside has not been so consistently delightful lately. But, the sun has made some great cameo appearances.
So, take a look back to the 1970s when spring fever kicked in enough to get a couple of RFH guys in the mood to put those gloves on and take a little kangaroo hop outside the Junior Lounge, probably on a “free.” They were barely clad in those stylish 70s gym shorts and ready to duke it out — or at least dance around the notion.
Scene Around: A Polished RFH Grad and a Monumental Fair Haven Preservation Task
They’re polished, alright — RFH Class of ’78 grad Doug DiStefano and his monument subject, that is.
In Memoriam: Former Little Silver Resident and Restaurateur, Brian Daneman, 65
“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.” — Ecclesiastes 3:1
Former Little Silver resident, Brian Paul Daneman, passed away on April 20. He was 65.
Retro TGIF Fair Haven Sleepover
If there was ever a perfect night for a classic pre-teen sleepover, tonight might just be the night. It’s all about kid spring fever and celebrating the season with a little help from friends.
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Retro RFH Prom Dress & Tradition
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Well, it was junior prom night for RFHers last week. And, to take a look at the social media photos floating around out there is to know that the times sure have changed, starting with the prom look. The dresses. The hair. The after-prom events.
Retro RFH Prom Posers
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A reprise, originally posted on June 10, 2021, to honor the best of RFH prom times during prom season …
The colors were deeper, the hair was higher and hemlines, too. The top song was George Michael’s Faith. The year was 1988 and the pre-prom scene for RFHers was the same, yet different.
Celebrating Frankie’s Fair Haven Legacy of Luck and Smiles
I could still see him. I believe everyone could. He was standing right up front in the far corner of the packed room. He could see it all from there. And, boy, was he smiling. Head tilted back a bit, to take it all in as best he could, his iconic smile spoke a thousand “How lucky we were” words. The rapturous sigh that emanated from his grin filled the room with his legacy of home-grown love.
I could see him add a wink this time as he read the room. The room, in a still-the-same Columbus Club corner nook on the street where we kids biked down the hill to school, was packed with those kids from his Fair Haven childhood.
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Focus: Liberty Tree Takes Root in Fair Haven
“I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure, that it will cost us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these states. Yet through all the gloom, I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory. I can see that the end is worth more than all the means; and that posterity will triumph in that day’s transaction, even although we should regret it.” ~ John Adams in a letter to his wife Abigail, July 3, 1776.
They planted themselves at Fair Haven Fields on Sunday for the sake of a symbolic dedication of the rooting of 250 years of strength and independence in one tree dubbed The Liberty Tree.
Focus: Benched for River Time Warmth
Sometimes, being benched is a good thing. It’s springtime and the livin’ is downright summery these days. So, being benched with a Navesink River view at the Fair Haven Dock is just what the winter-weary doctor ordered for perennial river-time seekers.
Retro Fair Haven Spring Swing
There’s nothing quite like a spring swing.
OK, so this may have been summer. The shorts tell all — sort of. But the beautiful simplicity of a plain ol’ spring swing just suits a summery hot spring day like today perfectly.
Retro Rumson Dog Daze of Spring
Sometimes when spring has sprung and the sun is gone for a day, you have to search doggedly for that sign that the blooms haven’t gone bust.
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