Drum roll, bagpipes and march … in time-step with a now 13-year Rumson tradition — the borough’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade.
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The R-FH Area Weekend: St. Patrick’s Day Parade & Hibernian Party
The weekend, or Sunday, to be exact, promises to be a luck of the Irish kind of time. Call it Slainte Sunday.
Continue reading The R-FH Area Weekend: St. Patrick’s Day Parade & Hibernian PartyScene Around: Rumson St. Patrick’s Day Parading 2025
The Rumson St. Patrick’s Day Parade passed by for the 12th year on Sunday.
Continue reading Scene Around: Rumson St. Patrick’s Day Parading 2025Scene Around: Rumson St. Patrick’s Day Fundraising
When it comes to raising funds for the Rumson St. Patrick’s Day Parade, the parade board always scores big.
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The Rumson St. Patrick’s Day Parade passed by on Sunday with much fanfare and plenty of smiling Rumson Irish eyes.
Continue reading Focus: Rumson St. Patrick’s Day ParadingFocus: Rumson St. Pat’s Day Parade VIP Partying
Before the parade passed by, VIPs gathered at Val’s and celebrated stepping out into the 11th Rumson St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Sunday.
Continue reading Focus: Rumson St. Pat’s Day Parade VIP PartyingThe R-FH Area Weekend: St. Pat’s Parading, Partying & Art

The headline really should just say “The R-FH Area Sunday,” as Sunday seems to be the day for all events R-FH area related.
Continue reading The R-FH Area Weekend: St. Pat’s Parading, Partying & ArtRetro RFH Irish Sweater Society Parading

Photo/Daily Register/clip, courtesy of Chris Rowett
In light of Sunday’s Rumson St. Patrick’s Day Parade, we are reprising this popular Retro Pic of the Day, originally posted on Feb. 28, 2022. There was an Irish Sweater Club marching with a host of mini sweater wearers on the parade route. But, back in the day …
Well, St. Patrick’s Day is looming. Considering the Irish festivities that have abounded lately in the spirit of the day, thoughts turn back to a club that took the chill out of the winter’s gala holiday — the RFH Irish Sweater Society of 1980.
Continue reading Retro RFH Irish Sweater Society ParadingFocus: Faces of the Rumson St. Patrick’s Day Parade
The 10th annual Rumson St. Patrick’s Day Parade filled Rumson’s streets with more than a wee bit of Irish spirit and luck on Sunday.
Continue reading Focus: Faces of the Rumson St. Patrick’s Day ParadeScene Around: Official Kind of St. Pat’s Party Starters

It’s not every day that you ask for selfies of post-Rumson St. Patrick’s Day Parade fun and get one single solitary photo and it’s replete with a couple of former Fair Haven councilwomen.
Sad as that is, just add a Fair Haven Fire Department affiliation or two and a Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School Performing Arts Society parent and you get a good mix for a great time at Columbus Club’s Sunday St. Pat’s fete. Now that’s a recipe for Fair Haven fun. That’s the idea.
The two former councilwomen are, of course, Susan Sorensen and Jacquie Rice. We spy at least two fire company relations: Wendy Kane and former chief, Wade Davis. And the selfie-taker, well, that’s none other than RFH PAS parent extraordinaire, Joanne Formisano.
Now, who’s cut off here — in the pic, that is? The masks are dropped and close encounters are close once again. The parade passed by thousands and the Columbus Club party was packed, so we see and heard.
Now, how would you caption this official(ish) photo? The fun started on Sunday. Look out for more fun times among green attire and beer spied this week, for St. Pat’s sake! Yours? Send your best St. Pat’s inspired selfies to evd@rfhretro.com.
Thanks to Joanne Formisano for this selfie gem!

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Retro Junior Irish Sweater Parading

Photo/Elaine Van Develde
Well, it’s not as retro as the RFHers’ Irish Sweater Society pic in the Register from 1980, but looking back to the first Rumson St. Patrick’s Day Parade, it looks like at least one marching group followed suit — in a much less mischievous way, of course.
Continue reading Retro Junior Irish Sweater ParadingRetro RFHers’ ‘Hunt’ for the Fun in Tradition

Photo/courtesy of Angela Carpenter
With the news of the revival of a newer Rumson area tradition, the Rumson St. Patrick’s Day Parade, comes the news that its grand marshal had a close relationship with the famed Hunt.
Continue reading Retro RFHers’ ‘Hunt’ for the Fun in Tradition



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