In thinking about the game these days — baseball game, that is — it’s only fitting that we take a gander back at little league in Fair Haven back in the late 60s.
Continue reading Retro Little League Home Run Former longtime Fair Havenite and Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) graduate and well-known area chef, Thomas “Tommy” Edward Ekleberry, passed away on April 11. He was 73.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Former Longtime Fair Havenite, RFH Grad, Noted Area Chef, Tommy Ekleberry, 73 
Two of these kids are not like the others. But, who would know when a Fair Haven neighborhood in the 1960s was pretty much a family affair anyway, right?
Continue reading Retro Fair Haven Neighborhood Easter Hams Longtime Fair Havenite Corrine Bonomi passed away peacefully on March 26 at the King Manor Nursing Home in Neptune after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. She was 87.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Longtime Fair Havenite Corrine Bonomi, 87 
It’s a date! The RFH Tower Players never really had to make a date to play. But they have always needed to make a date for a production — like the fall show or spring musical.
Continue reading Retro RFH Tower Player Play Date Rumson-raised longtime Fair Havenite, Doris Swenson Moraller, passed away peacefully on March 11. She was 89.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Rumson-Raised Longtime Fair Havenite, Rumson High ’53 Grad, Fair Haven Fields Natural Area Pioneer, Doris Moraller, 89 Fair Haven resident Valerie Cusick passed away at home, surrounded by her family, on March 22. She was 75.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Fair Haven Resident, Longtime Area Teacher, Valerie Cusick, 75 
There’s nothing quite like a spring swing.
OK, so this may have been summer, as the shorts sort of say it. But the beautiful simplicity of a plain ol’ spring swing just suits the first day of spring perfectly.
Continue reading Retro Swing into Spring When Death’s dark stream I ferry o’er,
A Highland Welcome
A time that surely shall come
In Heaven itself I’ll ask no more
Than just a Highland welcome.
Robert Burns, Scottish poet
Longtime Fair Havenite James “Jim” Wilson passed away on Feb. 16 in the comfort and care of his wife and caregivers. He was 91.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Longtime Fair Havenite Jim Wilson, 91Our annual reprise honoring the inspiration for R-FH Retro — my mom, Sally Van Develde — on what would have been her 102nd birthday. A birthday wish … Happy Heavenly Birthday, Mom. You remain in the hearts of so many … Besides, I won’t let them forget.
“If I ever go looking for my heart’s desire again, I won’t look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn’t there, I never really lost it to begin with! Is that right?” ~ Dorothy, The Wizard of Oz
For the love of home and a Fair Haven mom … that’s right.
Sometimes a birthday without her is about lighting the candles, making the wish, sustaining the simple legacy of going home, staying home with my mom, Sally Van Develde.
Today would have been her 102nd birthday. If she had lived to blow out all those candles on her cake, I wondered what she would have done. What her wish would have been.
Continue reading A Birthday Wish: Going Back Home with MomA Valentine’s Day reprise from last year …
Call it Valentine’s sustenance. Since Cupid’s arrow was first slung back in the dark ages, there have been hard hits, softer ones and total misses since. But there’s always been a little bit of sweet, sour and downright doughy satiation for the Valentine’s Day palate, with a little kooky sprinkled on top.
Continue reading Old News: Valentine’s Day Sweet, Sour and Doughy 
There’s nothing more groovy than six cool RFH girls chillin’ on a couch in the 70s.
Continue reading Retro RFH Cool Girls’ Chill 
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