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Heads-up! 15th Annual OG Blogfinger Town-Wide Yard Sale: Saturday June 27, 2026

May 20, 2026 by Blogfinger

Eileen Goldfinger and Paul are sponsoring the 15 Annual Ocean Grove  2026 Town-Wide Yard Sale. Above is she.    Click once.     This photo is from June 7, 2025—last year’s sale.

 

 

Eileen and Paul in a land and time  far, far away.

 

OKLAHOMA—Gloria Graham.

 

This is a preliminary notice.  June looks like a quiet month for our 15th annual Town-Wide Yard Sale:   Saturday  June  27, 2016. 9 am-3 pm.   More details will be forthcoming.  We welcome any suggestions, but here is a list of some of what we plan:

We will maintain a post on our home page  (Blogfinger.net)—-see above,  where visitors or yard  sailers can obtain information.   As the date approaches we will  post a ” List”  of all  addresses including what items are for sale at each location.

We hope that sellers  will help us.    Flyers will be available soon  to use for that purpose.  Or sailers can create  flyers, banners or lawn signs.  Social media promotions will help. Bring kids to the sales which  are social events which visitors and Grovers will enjoy. Play music at your sale.  And come up with unique sale promotions. We will advertise in town and out. And if you have a clever flyer we may post it online.

Yard sailers  can sign up through  June 26, 2026.   Just email us at Blogfinger@verizon.net.  We will not post the items for sale until 1-2  weeks before the sales.  Please send us your name, address, email and  nearest cross street.  You can provide  your list later and in pieces.  Encourage neighbors and friends to join you in combining sales.  The more participants, the more successful the sales.

You can design your own sale, such as the hours.  Just let us know.

There will be no rain date.

You will need a Neptune “garage sale.”permit obtained at the Mother Ship for $5.00. Tell them that you are with the Town-Wide Yard Sale.

—This June there will be no “Art on the Porch” so we invite artists to show and sell their art work as part of our Town-Wide Yard-Sales.   Artists do not have to submit samples  or pay  to join in.  They can sell art as part of a  yard sale  or at a personal art sale,  alone on that date.   Just tell us your plans.

We welcome all art forms. I will be showing signed black and white photographs. See photo above .

—We invite  participants to sell Ocean Grove memorabilia, art,  photos, historic valuables, and ephemera like books, Camp Meeting objects  like annual CMA booklets  and postcards.  There are OG collectors in town.  OG beach badges are also collectibles.  I met a lady in Florida who wanted to buy by OG badge right off my hat.  And artists who sell OG scenics.

–If you are into crafts, try selling them.

You may have noticed that the OG Chamber of Commercials is trying to upgrade their  spring market, formerly known as a ” Flea Market.”  But their fancy-pants effort now will cause many people who love flea markets to stay home, but perhaps they will reappear at our Town-Wide sales where we love flea markets.

–Consider selling plant cuttings and plants.; after all, this is the “Garden State.”

–You can sell music:     vinyl records, CD’s and DVD’s, and there are many people who still use these formats;  Just keep prices low or research the values; especially of vinyl! Beware of  scams for vinyl. CD players are a good venue for kids.  You can sell or buy CD players still.

–Look for vintage anythings:  such as childrens’ books–there are collectors.  Antiques of all kinds are not so much in demand, but if you plan to sell some, be sure to get an idea of market prices. Some collect old cameras.

–Downsizing?    Consider ridding yourself of stuff including cheap items or even free items to help neighbors. And if you have leftovers, just load up you vehicle after hour sale and go to any of the many  charities near us.

–You can sell silver, especially sterling, but you are better off selling yours at specialty stores such as Belmar and Bradley jewelers.   Silver plate isn’t worth much.

–Get the kids  into photography..there are digital cameras for children, and it is a good entry into a new way to communicate, be artistic and creative.   Look for unused albums at our sales.

–Musical  instruments, especially old ones. You could sell a French horn, but don’t hurt yourself.

—Street musicians can set up at various sales.  We envision solo or small ensembles . Let us know if you want to perform. You can put out a hat like they do in New Orleans.

—Bring your dogs, cats,  and kids.

It will be a good chance to visit OG sites including the newly opened (scheduled for May)  Nagle’s  on Main Avenue, John and Cathy’s Italian Deli on Main,   the newly restored Fitzgerald Fountain at Founders’ Park,  Tent Village near the Great Auditorium,  and our beachfront/boardwalk  where thong bathing suits

 

Seeing the sights on the Ocean Grove beach. Paul Goldfinger photo taken from the pier.  Click once  and see who’s watching this photo-shoot.

 

“Fad0 Lisboa-Paris”.  For Brigette Bardot who recently  died.

 

 

If you want to contact us, try email:      Blogfinger@verizon.net

 

Paul Goldfinger photo. A happy camper at our sale..

 

“Me and you and a dog named “Boo.”   LOBO

 

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15th Annual Town-Wide Yard Sale. June 27, 2026. If you plan to participate, please send us an email (Blogfinger@verizon.net). with address, name, cross street, and group sales.

May 9, 2024 by Blogfinger

 

 

 

2020 Yard Sales. Heck Avenue, OG. All photos fy Paul Goldfinger. Blogfinger.net

 

By Eileen and Paul Goldfinger, Editors, Blogfinger.net.    Contact;   Blogfinger@verizon.net

 

We are beginning to collect addresses for the June 27, 2026  Town-Wide Yard Sale.   This event is to be distinguished from the Neptune Township sales which are occurring in pieces.  Ours, as before, will happen all on the same date, and we anticipate an enjoyable and rewarding  sale as we have had for the last 14 years.

From now until the sales, we will have this post  in place here, and this will be where we will communicate information and this is where we will begin posting “THE LIST.”     The “List” will contain the addresses of all participants including cross streets and, eventually  items for sale.

We will post the “List”  here in June  and add new addresses as they come in to  Blogfinger@verizon.net    New participants can be added to “The List”  as the addresses arrive to us from now through June 26.   Tell your friends;   give them Blogfinger.net to find basic information.

You can send us your address sign-up now,  and add your items for sale  whenever you wish.  We will save the item “List”  until 1-2 weeks before.  We don’t want early birds knocking  on your doors.   The List will be published here starting in early June.   But you can start signing up now. We will not post your names unless you request that. Send your list to Blogfinger@verizon.net

Only addresses and, later,  sale items will be on the list.  The latter will be revealed about one week before touch down.

We are leaving this post here until June 27  so that those who go to Blogfinger.net for yard-sale information will not get lost.   The content of this post will vary until the sale.

About parking it should be OK. If you drive into town, bring a bike and park anywhere.

This an Ocean Grove secular  event run by We-The-People,  and we expect that mostly Grovers will show up as before, but out-of-towners are always welcome to our historic town .  Bring the kids, the dogs, your band, or your saxophone or  flugelhorn.    Have music at your sale.

Sellers will need a Neptune Township yard sale permit for $5.00. Get them at the Neptune Township Town Hall-building dept.

We will have fliers to hand out soon and we welcome efforts by participants to publicize the sales.  Seller groups of neighbors or friends will enhance the success, fun and games.   We can use some volunteer citizen reporters  with bikes who could monitor and photograph  the sales and report back to the Blogfinger headquarters.

QUESTIONS?   Email to Eileen and me:     Blogfinger@verizon.net

This post will be evolving, so stay tuned.

Eileen and Paul Goldfinger. Editors at Blogfinger.net

 

JAY AND THE AMERICANS:

 

 

FATS WALLER

 

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BF Movie Review: Fading Gigolo with Woody Allen and John Turturro. Back by popular demand.

May 21, 2026 by Blogfinger

 

Woody Allen and John Turturro

Woody Allen and John Turturro

 

 

Review by Paul Goldfinger, Editor, Blgfinger.net

Fading Gigolo is a quirky new movie directed and written by John Turturro, who also stars in the film as Fioravante, a florist. But the most important name is that of 78 year old Woody Allen who costars as Moe and delivers his best performance in years. He returns to his old ways of New York style humor, but his character is less neurotic, hypochondriacal, intellectual, and bumbling than the old Woody, and this time he is more real and has some touching and believable moments alternating with laugh-out-loud lines, making the movie worth seeing if you are a Woody fan as I am.

 

Allen and Tarturro play old friends who are down on their luck. They form a partnership where Tarturro becomes a gigolo while Woody is his “manager.” Tarturro is so charming, sensitive and sexy that women who look like Sharon Stone (she plays Woody’s dermatologist) want to pay to sleep with him. I found that to be a tad unrealistic, but Eileen, who has a weak spot for Italian men going back to Alan Alda in Mash, did not find it difficult to get. The relationship of two old friends with nearly 30 years separating them is great fun.

 

I have to say that there are enough wonderful moments in this movie, including the marvelously rich cinematography of New York City by Marco Pontecorvo and a fine jazz score with Gene Ammons, that you can overlook the sometimes ridiculous plot lines.

 

And the actresses in this film are funny, sexy and beautiful. Vanessa Paradis, a French singer and actress, is cast as a widowed Hassidic woman who is lonely. The Hassidic plot line gets awkward at times, but she is wonderful in that part.

 

If you like the idea of this film and the performers who star in it, then go see it and let yourself enjoy the great parts and don’t get too picky over the elements that don’t work so well.

 

It is at the Bow Tie Cinema in Red Bank on White Street. There is a big parking lot across the street.  —-Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger

 

GENE AMMONS.   “Canadian Sunset” from the soundtrack of Fading Gigolo,

 

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Modern OG history—2010. Full house….The Great Auditorium:

May 21, 2026 by Blogfinger

July 1, 2010. Paul Goldfinger photo. Blogfinger.net

 

By Paul Goldfinger, MD, Editor Blogfinger.net

There was a time, even in the recent past, when the Great Auditorium could have a full house.   I’ve seen it with the Choir Festival, but that was perhaps over 10 years ago.

The photo above was probably a concert for Independence Day, but I am not sure.

In the last few years, a number of people have said that the CMA is having trouble getting large crowds to their Sunday services. I don’t have any data on that.  But the Choir Festival has not lately been attracting  as large an audience as the past.  This may be related to COVID.

But if any of you think that the CMA couldn’t fill up that magnificent room, just look at the picture above.

I know that the CMA is no longer interested in large secular concerts, but you can imagine Springsteen or others like him easily filling the hall and bringing in big returns for the CMA.

 

Maybe you think that this idea is one of those foolish things, but imagine Dylan here singing  from his Triplicate album”

 

 

 

 

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Were you expecting Sousa? US Navy Band arrives with a hot jazz ensemble at the Ocean Grove, NJ Boardwalk Pavilion on a Saturday afternoon. (8/16/25)

May 21, 2026 by Blogfinger

By Eileen and Paul Goldfinger for Blogfinger.net.   Reporting from the OG Boardwalk Pavilion 8/16/25 with  videos and photographs.    Sponsored by the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association.

Here is a taste of the jazz selections  brought to us  by the US Navy Band jazz  ensemble.   Click once on still images to enlarge.     If you click on the lower right corner you will find a square.  Click on it for an enlargement .

 

 

 

All photographs by Paul Goldfinger, Blogfinger.net. Ocean Grove, NJ, USA. 8/16/25 Click once to enlarge.

 

 

I was kidding the tuba player about the absence of Sousa marches today, but he pointed to his instrument saying, “Well, this is a Sousaphone.”

 

The US Navy Band has musicians performing all around the world.  Today an ensemble of 8 highly talented players  appeared at the Boardwalk Pavilion.

All of their music, expertly and enthusiastically  presented, was exciting and entertaining, if not recognizable by the OG audience today.  The sailors  happily interacted with the Grovers who came to see them, and their music was mostly high energy jazz.

This group is on a tour of the Jersey Shore with us included.  They seemed to enjoy playing as much as we enjoyed hearing and seeing them.

I was in the Navy a long time ago, but my instrument was not musical–it was a stethoscope.  Today I got to chat with these sailors, and they loved interacting with the folks.  I shared with some of them the historic connections with John Phillip Sousa at Asbury Park and Ocean Grove.

 

 

 

 

Tenor saxs soloist. She was the only woman among this 8 “man” ensemble.

 

Musicians enjoyed socializing with the folks after the concert

 

3 of my uncles were in the Navy during WWII, but not all their stories were military.

 

The concert ended with a rousing performance of the Navy  theme song “Anchors Aweigh” which was written in 1907 and is still the most glorious theme of all the branches of our military.

This high def. recording is by the US Navy Band.

 

Another tune near the end was a Four Seasons hit, “Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You,”   where the musicians led a surprise sing-along with the Grover crowd. Put your cursor at the lower right hand corner of the video and click on the square to enlarge.

 

 

 

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Modern OG history–2019: Was Neptune Twp. justified in declaring the North End as “an area in need of redevelopment?”

May 21, 2026 by Blogfinger

Ocean Grove Great Auditorium.  2014.   Does this look like a town in need of a special redevelopment zone?   Paul Goldfinger photograph.  Click to enlarge.

 

NOTE:  9/15/24.   We received a special delivery letter today from the OGNED lawyers advising us that we could attend a special hearing later this month to put the last nails into the coffin of Ocean Grove’s beautiful North End.

The meeting will provide final approvals for certain NJDEP and HPC requirements.   We won’t attend because the Blogfinger team tried for years to put a stop to this travesty, but we failed to arouse an energetic opposition among any Grover activists and organizations.

Special thanks to Kevin Chambers, Jack Bredin and Charles Layton of the Blogfinger team.   The BF article below, from 2019, is just one of many, many which railed against the North End Redevelopment Plan.

Without a doubt, Blogfinger published more articles in opposition  than any other media source.

By Paul Goldfinger, MD, Editor, Blogfinger.net:

 

The documentation  below is from the “NJ Statutes for Counties and Municipalities,” section 40A:12A-5: Determination of need for redevelopment:

2019 in Blogfinger.net:

As many of you know, the way that the CMA, WAVE, and Neptune Township were able to bury the single family zoning for the North End of Ocean Grove was to fraudulently declare the property an “area in need of redevelopment.”

That is how they justified turning that property into a commercial mixed-use  zone.  That is how they were able to grant permission for condominiums, an underground garage, a hotel, retail, and  restaurants. Those plans contain nothing that is cultural, or beautiful, or in harmony with the environment or  the wishes of those who actually live in the Grove.

All of this is contrary to the goals of Ocean Grove’s Master Plan which emphasized  the residential /historic nature of the town.

Currently the latest  consortium of big shots in town will push hard to begin a revised version of that project.

It’s not clear from the gobbledygook that they are putting out lately, that the changes which they are now happily  promoting will avoid complications such as environmental damage, congestion, worsened parking distress, and further deterioration of quality of life for residents.  Nor is it clear that those changes are legal and proper according to land use laws in New Jersey.  We think not, on both counts.

If you are curious about what went down in 2008, read this to see what the State had in mind for “areas in need of redevelopment.”

40A:12A-5   Determination of need for redevelopment:

5.A delineated area may be determined to be in need of redevelopment if, after investigation, notice and hearing as provided in section 6 of P.L.1992, c.79 (C.40A:12A-6), the governing body of the municipality by resolution concludes that within the delineated area any of the following conditions is found:

a.  The generality of buildings are substandard, unsafe, unsanitary, dilapidated, or obsolescent, or possess any of such characteristics, or are so lacking in light, air, or space, as to be conducive to unwholesome living or working conditions.

b.  The discontinuance of the use of buildings previously used for commercial, manufacturing, or industrial purposes; the abandonment of such buildings; or the same being allowed to fall into so great a state of disrepair as to be untenable.

c.  Land that is owned by the municipality, the county, a local housing authority, redevelopment agency or redevelopment entity, or unimproved vacant land that has remained so for a period of ten years prior to adoption of the resolution, and that by reason of its location, remoteness, lack of means of access to developed sections or portions of the municipality, or topography, or nature of the soil, is not likely to be developed through the instrumentality of private capital.

d.   Areas with buildings or improvements which, by reason of dilapidation, obsolescence, overcrowding, faulty arrangement or design, lack of ventilation, light and sanitary facilities, excessive land coverage, deleterious land use or obsolete layout, or any combination of these or other factors, are detrimental to the safety, health, morals, or welfare of the community.

e.   A growing lack or total lack of proper utilization of areas caused by the condition of the title, diverse ownership of the real property therein or other conditions, resulting in a stagnant or not fully productive condition of land potentially useful and valuable for contributing to and serving the public health, safety and welfare.

f.  Areas, in excess of five contiguous acres, whereon buildings or improvements have been destroyed, consumed by fire, demolished or altered by the action of storm, fire, cyclone, tornado, earthquake or other casualty in such a way that the aggregate assessed value of the area has been materially depreciated.

g.   In any municipality in which an enterprise zone has been designated pursuant to the “New Jersey Urban Enterprise Zones Act,” P.L.1983, c.303 (C.52:27H-60 et seq.) etc.

h.   The designation of the delineated area is consistent with smart growth planning principles adopted pursuant to law or regulation.

L.1992,c.79,s.5; amended 2003, c.125, s.3.

 

SIMON AND GARFUNKEL:  “So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright.”

“So long, Frank Lloyd Wright
I can’t believe your song is gone so soon
I barely learned the tune
So soon
So soon.”

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Did you know about these Ocean Grove beach rules-by -the -sea? They don’t mention photography. Repost from 2025. Blogfinger.net

May 20, 2026 by Blogfinger

Lifeguards in action on the Ocean Grove beach. 2014/ © Paul Goldfinger photo

Lifeguards at the Ocean Grove beach during tournament.. Paul Goldfinger photo  (2014) Click to make bigger.

 

Ocean Grove Beach 2022.   A professional photo shoot is taking place. Paul Goldfinger photo from the pier.. You can imagine the rear view.  Where will she hang her beach badge?  Nobody stopped the  photographer.

By Paul Goldfinger, Editor, Blogfinger. 2021.

 

The OGCMA’s Beach Regulations have not been changed much since we first looked at them in 2021. We are going more or less by the rules expressed currently on the CMA web site:  OceanGrove.org/beach.  (2023)

A mailing was sent out in  2021  for those who wanted to obtain  beach “tags” for 2022.   If you ordered by mail, there would  be a $7.00 mailing fee.  You had to sign and return a card which promised that you would “follow all of the beach rules and regulations.”

In 2023 I ordered badges on line, and there were no rules to sign..  And the web site does not mention signing any rules pledge.

I wonder how many of you have actually read the rules.   If you haven’t, here are some that are of particular interest.

Note that the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting  Association  controls most of these rules, not the Neptuners, even though the beach, boards, and parks are considered “public thoroughfares.” And it is not clear as to how the CMA  enforces the rules.   Note that the new pier has its own rules posted on the boardwalk.

The  2021 list below is stated somewhat differently now, but is essentially the same.  Now they ban alcohol (a Neptune ordinance) and they don’t mention smoking. And there are rules about canopies or tents.

You can see the complete  list at OceanGrove.org. Below are the rules and regs which we find particularly interesting at Blogfinger.net, and we editorialize  about  some of them:

  1. You may not swim at the North End beach because it is reserved as the “primary surfing beach.” Is this fair?
  2. You must “obey lifeguards at all times.”  So if you are a sweet young thing in a bikini, you may not want to agree to this rule.
  3. No electronic music unless you wear headphones.   But how about other sources of noise such as loud parties or loud talk or sports radio?
  4. Children under age 12 must be accompanied by an adult.  Will you parents with precocious, brilliant kids restrain them from going to the beach without adults if lifeguards are present?
  5. No disrobing or changing clothes on the beach.  Heck, that is a popular spectator sport.
  6. No burying persons below grade or in standing position.  Does this mean that both the buryer and the buryee cannot be standing?  Do the same rules apply if you are burying a dead person? No hole deeper than 12 inches. And what does “below grade” mean?
  7. Sports fishing is allowed in “locations not being used for bathing or surfing.”  Is this clear?
  8. No flying kites over beach or boardwalk.  Is that 24/7 or only while the lifeguards are there?
  9. Only service dogs are allowed on the beach or boardwalk.  Do they mean year-round? Dogs are permitted on-leash off-season.
  10.  No bikes, skateboards or skates except between 3 am to 10 am  (Neptune ordinance in season)   Why is Neptune Township writing this rule?   The CMA is empowered to make rules for the beach and boardwalk.  The CMA has jurisdiction over those areas.
  11.  No smoking on the beach.  CMA allows smoking in their parks, but they probably made this specific area smoke-free because people pay to get on; they don’t pay to visit the parks, including Auditorium Square Park which, strangely, allows smoking despite the big wooden structure next door.  I guess you can smoke on the boardwalk??
  12. Ball playing, Frisbees,  sports activities permitted “as conditions allow.” (Define this term)
  13. No sleeping or camping overnight.
  14. No throwing sand.
  15. No activity which may endanger the safety of others.
  16. No open fires, but the CMA has night bonfires.
  17. No fishing in bathing areas.  (? 24/7)
  18. Beach badges if over 11 years old
  19. Below  is interesting in this age of thong bathing suits:

“The standard for the application of the terms ‘indecent exposure’, ‘inappropriate display’, ‘abusive act or language’ as used in the preceding sentence shall be generally accepted standard for the community of Ocean Grove in keeping with the stated purpose of the Association being to provide and maintain for members and friends of the Methodist Episcopal , now United Methodist Church,, a proper, convenient and desirable permanent Camp Meeting Grounds and Christian seaside resort.’”

But there are no such standards for the “community of Ocean Grove.”    In fact there is no “community of Ocean Grove.”  Perhaps the standards  referenced are those of the Camp Meeting Association which do not exist in writing.

Therefore, the idea of “indecent exposure” cannot be enforced.  Any lawyer want to weigh in on this?

So, who is the party of the first part?   Well,  you get the idea.  There are more such rules and regulations;  you have to decide which ones you want to obey fully, which ones you will gracefully ignore, and which ones you will obey selectively.  We don’t claim to have posted every rule that exists; go to OceanGrove.org for more info.

But they did send one of their enforcement goons to demand that I stop photographing by the Pavilion and even on the beach.

Oh, and who gets to enforce all these rules, especially if they are 24/7?

And how does the CMA insure equal justice under the law?   And how does Neptune get involved if their ordinances are challenged, such as no alcohol and bike/scooters  violations?

 

JOHNNY DEPP and HELENA BONHAM CARTER  “By the Sea” from Sweeney Todd-the Demon Barber of Fleet Street.  Stephen Sondheim (music and lyrics 1979)

 

“By the sea, Mr. Todd, that’s the life I covet
By the sea, Mr. Todd, ooh, I know you’d love it
You and me, Mr. T, we could be alone
In a house what we’d almost own

“Down by the sea, anything you say
Wouldn’t that be smashing?

“With the sea at our gate, we’ll have kippered herring
What have swum to us straight from the Straits of Bering
Every night in the kip, when we’re through our kippers
I’ll be there slipping off your slippers”

 

 

 

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A special breakfast treat: Eileen’s French toast–a springtime delight. Re-post.

May 20, 2026 by Blogfinger

French toast with fresh Jersey blueberries and peaches. 6/24/16© Paul Goldfinger photo

French toast with fresh Jersey blueberries and peaches. Recipe by Eileen Goldfinger, Food Editor @ Blogfinger.net.      Paul Goldfinger photo. Click to enlarge.

 

The fresh  blueberries and peaches  are wonderful now—very sweet.  (referring to mid to late June)   Eileen got hers at Wegmans.  In May blueberries are nice  but no peaches yet. You can substitute fruits.

The French toast recipe is easy and delicious.  You must use challah  (braided Jewish egg bread) which you can always get at Wegmans.  If you buy one, it will last for a week in your fridge, or you can freeze it.

Use a large shallow bowl and break some eggs into it.  (For two people, use four large eggs.)  With a fork or a whisk, beat the eggs until the yolks and whites are combined.

Add two teaspoons of real vanilla extract and a pinch of salt, and stir into the eggs.

Cut three  1 1/2 inch  slices from the center of the bread and place them in the egg mixture.

Allow the bread slices to soak up the egg mixture on both sides.

Add a tbsp. of vegetable oil to a  12 inch non-stick fry pan and spread the oil over the bottom of the pan. Heat until the oil begins to sizzle.

Place the bread slices into the heated pan and cook both sides until brown.  (approx. 3 minutes per side)

Serve the French toast with fresh fruits and real maple syrup.

 

Serves 2.  Make this wonderful recipe  for Father’s Day, Sunday,  June 15, 2025. He will love it,   and bring Dad to the June 14 Art on the Porch festivities on Saturday June 14..   Artontheporch.org

 

 

STEVE LAWRENCE AND EYDIE GORME´:

 

 

 

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B. Beachers–come to our O. Grove yard sale on June 27, 2026: Blogfinger.net for information

May 20, 2026 by Blogfinger

Paul Goldfinger photo. Bradley Beach as seen from OG at Fletcher Lake.  September  2025. Blogfinger.net

 

“Serenade. How  Fair This Place”.  Sarah Brightman

 

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Jersey corn— in season soon and it will be fabulous. Watch for it in late June.; sooner from South Jersey. Peak in July and August.

May 20, 2026 by Blogfinger

Asbury Saturday Sunset Farmers Market. Paul Goldfinger 8/26/2023

 

SQUIRREL NUT ZIPPERS    “Wished For You.”

 

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Last apples…

May 19, 2026 by Blogfinger

Last apple.   Oakhurst, NJ.     Paul Goldfinger photo.

 

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Lifestyles in the Grove: Exploring Tent Village.

May 19, 2026 by Blogfinger

Tent Village in Ocean Grove. July, 2018. Paul Goldfinger photo. © Blogfinger.net.  Click to enlarge.

 

BETTE MIDLER:

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Nocturnal Tent Village. Around town with Jean

May 19, 2026 by Blogfinger

Ocean Grove Tent Village. 8/5/22. Jean Bredin photo. Blogfinger staff. Click once  to see the angels on high….

 

 

Jean says, “It’s charming when someone is home, and the lights are on…”

 

Christmas in August:  Ocean Grove, NJ

 

LUMIERE STRING QUARTET:

 

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The Revenant: This 2015 movie will hypnotize you.

May 18, 2026 by Blogfinger

From The  Revenant now streaming on Prime. Paul Goldfinger still image from the film.   Click once to enlarge. Paul Goldfinger still image from this amazing movie.

 

 

 

 

 

By Paul Goldfinger, Editor Blogfinger.net.  5/18/2026. Click once.

 

The Revenant is a powerful movie from 2015. It received 12 Academy nominations and won 3  Oscars including Best Actor. (Leonardo Di Caprio), Best Director Alejandro G. Inareitu. and Best Cinematography  Emmanuel  Lubezki.

It is the story of an epic adventure set in the wild and rugged plains of. winter America 1823 and loosely based on the  true story of a trapper who is roughing it with a number of  brave men who living in the frozen tundra , fight life- threatening attacks by Indians, and one of them, played by DiCaprio is nearly killed in a grotesque bear attack.

He then is left for dead, but he makes his way back to the nearest settlement.  He lives on roots and berries, and his survival is mesmerizing.  On the way he finds historic relics of old buildings such as a church indicating that humans had actually preceded them .

Watch this film, and you will never forget it.

 

PHILLIP GLASS.  “The Plant-Boy’s Song.”

 

 

 

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