OG has reached a fork in the road. Will the CMA continue to take us all in opposite directions? Paul Goldfinger photo.
The CMA views this town as its own. Dividing groups instead of working to join together will ruin the Grove. Moe Demby photo for Blogfinger and the Asbury Park Press.
Paul Goldfinger, Editor. Blogfinger.net
There are a number of ways that the Camp Meeting Association has distanced itself from the OG public. We could make a list, and that list is worrisome in terms of the future of Ocean Grove.
One way is that It used to have a public meeting, usually in the Tabernacle, where CMA officials would present the advances made all year by that organization, and it demonstrated a certain degree of caring about the relationship between them and the residential Grover community.
After Sandy, the CMA strived to join together with all OG factions including the enlarging and changing secular residential presence and the gay community . Below is a photo of a Grover meeting to discuss Sandy issues. It shows that all factions in town can get together for the common good, but now those sessions will not be renewed.
It’s just another tangible reason to conclude that the CMA is following its own agenda and will continue to turn its back on the rest of town.
Youth Temple town meeting. I believe it is 2013. Paul Goldfinger photo. © Click to enlarge.
THE TRAVELING WILBURYS
“Oh, I didn’t see that big black cloud hanging over meAnd when the rain came down, I was nearly drownedI didn’t know the mess I was inMy shoes are wearing out from walking down this same highwayI don’t see nothing new but I feel a lot of changeAnd I get the strangest feelingAs I’m heading for the light..”