OG near Wesley Lake. Paul Goldfinger photograph©. July 6, 2020. Click to enlarge.
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor of Blogfinger.net
MARINE BAND: Did you miss this music on July 4? Let’s not let that evil virus push us down too far.
John Phillip Sousa wrote this little ditty which is “The Stars and Stripes Forever.”
In Ocean Grove there is a long heritage of patriotic music. Sousa appeared in the Great Auditorium many times, and his music made it even greater.
Go to the OG Historical Society and visit his portrait in full military regalia. He was the director of the Marine Band. They say that he wouldn’t allow his musicians to tap their toes.
Oh, and go to the museum and ask why they are the Historical Society and not the Historic Society.