Photo/Frank Boesch
Heigh-Hoh! It’s off to scout camp they went …
Back in the 1970s, that is. These days, it’s half past camping time for the scouts in Fair Haven and beyond.
Retro Happy Summer Scout Campers
Photo/Frank Boesch
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Photo/Frank Boesch
In Memoriam: Longtime Fair Havenite Marilyn Siegler, 91
Former longtime Fair Havenite and Little Silver resident, Marilyn Bernice Siegler, passed away on Friday, July 10. She was 91.
Retro Rumson Island Ploppers
A reprise of a real classic because it’s summertime and that means it’s island cruising time in the Rumson-Fair Haven area …
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 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.
The R-FH Area July 4th Fun: Fireworks, Sandy Hook Seining, Firecracker 5K
Well, after many America 250 celebrations, the ode to the U.S.A. and its birth will culminate in a sparkly kaboom for its gala birthday.
Retro Neighborhood Bathing Beauty Besties
Photo/Elaine Van Develde
A reprise in honor of beating the impending heatwave 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.
In Memoriam: Longtime Fair Haven Resident, Ingrid Marxen, 85
Longtime Fair Haven resident, beloved mother, grandmother and friend, Ingrid Karin Marxen, “left us peacefully surrounded by the love of her family.” She was 85.
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Getting the Clear Retro RFH Graduation Picture
Sometimes those ’70s RFH graduation memories are not all a blur. They’re crystal clear. In focus. Like this Pomp and Circumstance walk snapshot back in time. It’s been almost a week since the RFH Class of 2026 did their graduation walk. So, we’re taking you back to a walk of the dinosaur kind — that of the RFH Class of ’78.
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Scene Around: Fair Haven Graduation Walk Talk
They walked the walks — two, that is. Yes, Fair Haven’s Knollwood School eighth grade graduation happened last night.
In Memoriam: Former Fair Havenite Maura Hickey McCarthy, 61
Former Fair Havenite Maura Hickey McCarthy, of Red Bank, formerly of passed away on Monday, June 15. She was 61.
In Memoriam: Fair Haven- and Rumson-Raised RFH ’78 Grad, Pattie Leutz Lyons, 66
Fair Haven and Rumson-raised Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) Class of 1978 graduate, avid volunteer, rugby enthusiast, wife, mom and “friend to all,” Pattie Leutz Lyons, “passed from this life peacefully on June 14 at home and surrounded by the family she loved with all her being.” She was 66.
Retro Fair Haven Day with Iconic Fair Havenites
It’s time for the new Fair Haven Day tradition for the 14th time, well, 13th, if you discount the pandemic year. An in its 14th year, Fair Haven Day will celebrate America’s 250 in tandem at the usual place, Fair Haven Fields, on Saturday.
Fair Haven Day was borne out of the 2012 Fair Haven Centennial Celebration. So, there’s lots to celebrate, including those Fair Havenites who are now gone, but helped make the borough the community it is and strives to continue to be. This is how they’re doing it this year …
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