It’s about that time of the year. Yes, it’s that time when Fair Haven eighth graders do two walks of tradition — the final walk down Third Street and that graduation walk.
Retro Gowned-Up Fair Haven Girl Grads
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Focus: Ending Ruth Blaser’s Love Story in Her Fair Haven
Retro Cool River Rat Daze
Photo/courtesy Marc Edelman, Facebook
All’s cool with these little rats in the pool … or, more like down by the river! A reprise from 2018 in ode to the tradition of summer recreating on the river in the Rumson-Fair Haven area. It’s all about River Rats, one summer rite of passage in the area …
Unofficial summertime is here, with the official season’s start soon to set sail. And summers in the Rumson-Fair Haven area are rife with river-oriented activities that have become tradition.
River Rats’ sailing “camp” is no exception. OK, nobody was camping. It was more like a little club. Still is.
It’s been a sort of rite-of-living-on-the-Navesink passage for decades — since 1955. Kids learn how to boat and do a lot of summer fun bonding in the process.
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Ruth Blaser’s Fair Haven Mic Drop: Soaring with the Principles of an Iconic Dragon Gadfly
We are gathered here today … in gratitude for a Fair Haven gadfly. Mic drop.
Gadfly. It’s a caricature of those governing body meeting regulars, the characters who persists in challenging authority or the status quo, holding officials accountable, prompting change or even self-reflection. Gadfly. It’s not the true menace it sounds like. In fact, there’s a lot of beauty in a gadfly. Call it a dragon gadfly — a colorful, principled mosquito eater, ridding the environment to which it always returns of welt-wielding pestilence.
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Retro Good Fair Haven Summertime Grilling
Photo/Mary Croft
Well, there’s nothing like a good Memorial Day grilling.
And there’s also nothing like getting your kid to flip those burgers and tend to the grill like a serious party master — like this barbecue scene back from 1974 in Fair Haven.
In Memoriam: Rumson-Raised Fair Havenite and Longtime Teacher, Marjorie Abson, 82
Rumson-raised Fair Havenite and longtime Rumson Country Day and Knollwood School teacher, Marjorie Anne “Grammy” Gibson Abson, passed away on May 19 in Neptune. She was 82.
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Retro Fair Haven Folk Singers’ Americana Parading
Sing it! Row that boat ashore, Michael, Mary, Karen, Lynn, and whoever else has an oar. And, whatever you do, don’t rain on their parade! You couldn’t if you tried.
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Scene Around: A Fair Haven Sanctuary Rededication for the Birds
It’s for the birds — and area nature lovers.
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Retro River Cruise into Sunny Daze
Call it a boatload of waterborne sunshine.
On the cusp of the unofficial start of summer in less than two weeks, thoughts turn to sunny cruising on the Navesink River.
In Memoriam: Fair Haven-Raised RFH ’72 Grad, Former Policeman, Fireman, Mike Raleigh, 72
Fair Haven-raised Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) graduate and former borough policeman and fireman, Mike Raleigh, passed away after a battle with cancer on May 11 in Stuart, FL, where he had been more recently living. He was 72.
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Retro Fair Haven Police Line-Up
In recognition of National Police Week, we are reposting this Retro Pic of the Day of Fair Haven police …
It’s National Police Week, so it’s only fitting that we take a look back at the Fair Haven Police Department. This look goes back to 2001. It features some officers who have since retired, some who have moved on and some who have passed.
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Sailing into River Rats Season: The FYI on Classes & Open House
Rats! It’s something that might be said if taking the plunge into a longtime classic summer ritual of learning to sail and belonging to The Fair Haven River Rats — that 70-year-old non-profit educational sailing organization on the Navesink River — is missed.
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