It was 10 years ago that the havoc wreaked by Superstorm Sandy left monumental wreckage in its wake in Sea Bright.
Once the ghost-town kind of calm settled in after the storm, people flocked from all over to witness the devastating damage done first hand.
One iconic spot that Sandy decimated, hoisting up its buildings and fiercely slamming them down onto twisted tar, was Sea Bright’s Donovan’s Reef.
Continue reading Retro Sandy-Ravaged Donovan’s ‘DO’
Here’s one more retro treat for the Halloween road …
The trick, one would have to say, is gathering all that candy in those pillow cases. Do they still do that? Hmmmm …
Continue reading Retro Fair Haven Halloween Treat
There’s nothing like getting crabby for Halloween.
So, what do you get when you put a couple of crabs, a crabber and a cook in a Halloween parade? A prize, of course.
Continue reading Retro Prized Crabby Halloween ParadersHalloween is in the air — and on lawns — in the Rumson-Fair Haven area.
All you have to do is take a drive to get into the spirit — or crash into a few out of amazement, shock or fright. Do try this at home. Just leave the crashing part out and take in the sights of the creepy, kooky, mysterious, spooky and altogether ooky decorations around the towns, as the Addams Family title song says.
Continue reading Focus: Halloween Decoration Drive-By“If you’re gonna worry, don’t pray. And if you’re gonna pray, don’t worry.”
Following his own advice, Fair Haven Fisk Chapel A.M.E. Church Rev. Thomas Johnson will tell you that he never did much worrying. In fact, if you you’ve ever even known him for a minute, you likely haven’t seen a scowl or worried furrow on his brow. Just a bright smile that speaks self-proclaimed countless blessings.
Continue reading Focus: Celebrating Fair Haven History in a Pastor’s Retirement
It’s cool to be a good ghoul in school, right?
Wait. Is that a lobster raising its claw to answer the teacher? Why, yes, it is. The teacher is unfazed. But the lesson? Well, it seems that this day in a Fair Haven 1980s classroom is all about costumes and little to nothing about reading, writing and ‘rithmetic.
Continue reading Retro Fair Haven Classroom Halloween Classic
Well, the sun is out and it’s time to take the Halloween parading outside.
Continue reading Retro RFH Halloween Parading
Call it a spirited play time.
The Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School (RFH) Tower Players are staging their fall production of The Canterville Ghost, set for Nov. 18 to 20 on the RFH stage.
Continue reading RFH Tower Players Set Stage for Haunting Production of ‘The Canterville Ghost’
It was all about falling for the fall season with some sips, pets and socializing. The coffee was on and company came to celebrate the fall with festivities at Coffee Corral in Red Bank this past sunny Saturday.
Turns out that the Corral’s Fair Havenite owners, Courtlyn (Crosson) and Erich Reulbach, had the timing just right to offer up some free fall fun, food and feting before the rain came, cancelling lots of other fall and Halloween fetes on Sunday.
And the sun shone bright on the chicks and goats and sheep and folks scurrying to socialize and soak it all up. We’re told a sunny good time was had by all — even the animals.
Cheers to fall and coffee!
Take a look at the photos above, courtesy of R-FH Retro friend Magdalena Aders, for a glimpse into the day. (Click on one to enlarge and scroll. Enjoy!).
It’s that time the year again when thoughts of old-time Hunt times come flooding back for many Rumson-Fair Haven area folks. There still may be a Hunt, but not this one. So, we are offering a glimpse back to the days of the Haskell Hunt from a non-tailgating vantage point with a reprise of the following Retro Pic(s) of the Day piece originally posted on Oct. 20, 2017 …
We went on the hunt for more Hunt photos and stumbled onto a couple of glimpses at the happening scene up on hip, hip Hippie Hill.
It was probably the late 1970s. These peacefully assembled cool long hairs and renegades likely snuck into the Haskell Hunt through the fence and onto that infamous hill on ol Amory Haskell’s elegant estate.
Continue reading Retro RFH Hippies’ Hunt Hill ChillIt’s not every day that a movie cast and crew come to film in Fair Haven. Just today.
All was set up and rolling to film portions of the romantic comedy (Rom-Com) Which Brings Me to You at the Columbus Club on Fair Haven Road. Scenes for the film have been shot in other towns in the area — Rumson, Red Bank, Highlands and Keansburg.
According to IMBd, it’s about “two romantic burnouts (who) meet at a wedding and almost hook up in the coatroom before putting the brakes on. They agree to exchange candid confessions about their pasts on the off chance that this might be the real thing.”
Starring Genevieve Angelson, Lucy Hale and Nat Wolff and directed by Peter Hutchings, Fair Haven Mayor Josh Halpern caught the above scenes and posted them on social media, saying …
“How cool is it of the Columbus Club to accommodate the cast and crew of the movie Which Brings Me To You … As always, Fair Haven is in the center of it all. Can’t wait to see the results on the big screen!”
And that’s what was scene around in the Rumson-Fair Haven area today.
Thanks to the mayor for the photos.
The people of the historic Fair Haven Fisk Chapel A.M.E. Church have announced the coming retirement of their longtime pastor, Rev. Thomas P. Johnson and have extended a retirement celebration invite to the parish’s extended family in Fair Haven and beyond.
Continue reading Retirement Celebration Set for Fair Haven Fisk Chapel’s Rev. Thomas Johnson
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