Tent Village will be occupied this month, and many visitors will enjoy exploring this historic site, owned by the OG Camp Meeting Association. Blogfinger photographers have wandered around here during day or even at night. It is a fascinating place. Occupants lease their tents from the CMA. Go to comments below or email us at Blogfinger@verizon.net. Click once on the photo to clearly read the sign.
Paul Goldfinger, Editor Blogfinger.net. 5/1/26.
Have you ever walked around the Great Auditorium, peeked inside, or even entered to hear a rehearsal or take a tour? Have you ever seen a sign as above in Tent Village? Have you ever walked on the OG boardwalk? That is private property too.
Are the grassy strips around town “private property?” The CMA had quite a time after Sandy claiming to FEMA that the boardwalk is a public thoroughfare and not private property.
Will signs like this begin to appear throughout Tent Village in Ocean Grove, NJ, USA? Or around our residential streets? Is the difference that people are living in the tents but not in the Auditorium? And will “Private Property signs show up in places like Bishop Jane’s Tabernacle?
And since the CMA owns all the land in town, how much of historic O. Grove do they consider to be functionally “Private Property?”
BARRY MANILOW AND PHYLLIS McGUIRE:
Peter: Thank you for your comment. Are you in favor of that sign? Should such signs be distributed among the tent neighborhood?
This discussion is about the Tent Village, a specific historic area in OG known to be of interest to tourists and locals. I raised this provocative issue to provoke a discussion because of that sign.
I did not offer my own opinion. Blogfinger has always taken a favorable interest in the tent community, especially in the form of our photographs.
Anyone who is interested can expresss their opinions here..
Paul, How would you like people to go in your back yard behind your house and walk around peering in windows?
The tents are arranged in quads and rows to allow for the occupants to have shared back yards so the spaces between the tents is considered private and the signs there are to let visitors know not to intrude on their privacy,
Thanks, Peter