By Paul Goldfinger and Eileen Goldfinger (home, garden and food editor @Blogfinger)

1906 was a marvelous year for Ocean Grove and the Camp Meeting  Association.  The town attracted  huge crowds to the summer events.  Photographs of the era showed  wall to wall people at the beaches and bathing pavilions.  The Great Auditorium,  with its 10,000 seat capacity, was one of the first mega-churches, but it also was the home of  incredible musical events, with spectacular performances by stars such as John Phillip Sousa and Enrico Caruso.   A well known impresario named Tali Esen Morgan was the man responsible for these ambitious programs which included a children’s chorus of 1000 voices and a 63 piece orchestra.  He also was in the process of having the Hope-Jones organ installed in the GA— an important event in the town’s history. The organ made its debut in 1908. 

Tali Essen Morgan was a man with…