Click to enlarge unless you have 20 20 vision. Paul Goldfinger photo Jan. 2020. For Frank.
ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK. (Well, southwest Fla is south of the border, is it not? ay yie, ay yie. )
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Photos at the beach: #6, Ft. Myers, Florida 2020.
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“Hello, this book will change your life…..”
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Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall on the campus of Florida SouthWestern College in Fort Myers, Florida. January, 2017. Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Blogfinger.net ©
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger.net.
We went to the Barbara Mann to see the Book of Mormon. It had received many accolades, but we didn’t care for it very much. The subject matter was often pretty gross and unpleasant, plus it was anti-religious, especially towards the Mormons; as well as condescending and/or obnoxious towards a variety of groups including blacks, gays and women.
However, the musical song and dance numbers were often wonderful, such as “Hello” which opened the show (see below).
The show is about the pairs of young men who are sent on two year religious missions all over the world to try to gain converts to the Mormon Church. In the opening number, a group of missionaries dressed in their usual black pants, white shirts and ties, with name tags, perform this lively number called “Hello.” The song is about how they go from door to door, ringing doorbells, with their sacred texts of the Latter Day Saint movement.
They try to interest people in their religion with the ultimate goal of baptizing them. This show is set in a primitive village in Uganda, so the young Elders have their work cut out for them.
The Barbara Mann Theater has a high, grand entrance-way illuminated by the lights shown in the photograph above. The packed house seemed to love the show and gave it a standing ovation with whistles and cheers, although some folks around us left at intermission.
ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST OF BOOK OF MORMON with the opening number “Hello!”
Old Florida near the Caloosahatchee River
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Arvelee. Old Ft. Myers downtown, across from the river. Paul Goldfinger photo. 2012. Click image to enlarge.
JERRY ORBACH:
FLEIADES
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San Carlos Island, Fla. Shrimp boat. This island was devastated with Ian on Oct. 2, 2022. By Paul Goldfinger . February, 2017. Click to enlarge
MANU DIBANGO
Fort Myers, Fla— Tina at the French bakery… and a fine brioche at “Hey, Peach” in Bradley Beach, NJ.
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Tina works at the French bakery in downtown Fort Myers. Photo By Paul Goldfinger. Her brioches make fine French toast.
Brioche from “Hey Peach” in Bradly Beach. Paul Goldfinger photo in Eileen’s Ocean Grove kitchen. 10/3/25. The plan is to make French toast.
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor Blogfinger.net. 10/3/25
Speaking of French toast in Ocean Grove, two Grovers have opened one of the finest bakeries around called “Hey, Peach” in Bradley Beach. That bakery has first rate pastries and breads, but they also have authentic croissants and brioches.
Erin and James have hung two of my French black and white photographs in their shop. One is of the Parisian waiters which is on the cover of a book being distributed around the world in multiple languages. And the other is of a morning foggy French country farmers’ market revealing a display totally devoted to foie gras.
Eileen Goldfinger’s OG kitchen has a French flavor with the chef ‘s tile above. I went to “Hey, Peach ” today where the enthusiastic staff sold me macaroons, a sourdough baguette, authentic croissants , a brioche. (above) and a cream puff.
Mel, who runs the front-end display department, tells us that their brioches are often purchased for French toast.
When I saw the brioche today, at first I thought it was a round challah since the High Holy Days just ended, but Eileen had just reposted her French toast recipe using challah, and then I recalled the brioches sold in Ft. Myers Florida to use for French toast.. (above).
To use the bumpy “Hey, Peach” brioche for French toast, Mel suggested that we slice the bumpy top off leaving a flat surface for French toast slices.
ALAN ARKIN (She keeps his blood pressure normal–a non-pharmacologic therapy)
Wind powered
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Captiva Island, Florida. Paul Goldfinger photo. Click once to make the ride more exciting.
WYNTON MARSALIS “Flamingo”
Misty morning
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Gasparilla Island. Florida.Paul Goldfinger photo. 2014 Click to enlarge.
RONALD NALDI This is a Neapolitan song recorded by Mr. Naldi. (Ocean Grove’s tenor). “A Vuccella” is from Vol II of an album of Italian songs—– Torna a Surriento.
Say ah!
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Fertility god. A replica from a Hindu temple in central Java before the Islamic era. Photographed at the Naples Botanical Garden by Eileen Goldfinger. ©
YUNA —— from the soundtrack to the film Savages
Three graces
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Naples, Florida. 3rd Avenue. Paul Goldfinger photo © March, 2016
BING CROSBY AND THE ANDREWS SISTER:
The people’s beach…
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Tampa food truck #2: French crepes.
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La Creperia and Café. Tampa, Florida. Paul Goldfinger photo. Click once to enlarge. 2018.
JOSEPHINE BAKER “Nuit d’Alger”
And below is a link to another Josephine Baker song called “I Have Two Loves.” The scene is Paris, and that is a very Parisienne thing to do, and tres dangeroux.
In the pink: roseate spoonbills migrate to Florida, especially to the Ding Darling Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel Island.
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Roseate spoonbills. Morning at the Ding Darling Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel Island, Southwest Florida. By Eileen Goldfinger 2016.
EDVARD GRIEG. Peer Gynt “Morning.” By the Royal Tuscany Orchestra.
“When you’re near, there’s such an air of spring about it.” (Cole Porter)
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Naples, Florida. 2015. By Paul Goldfinger. Click once to enlarge.
SIMPLY RED “Every Time We Say Goodbye” from his album Simplified
This is one of my all time favorite songs. Words and music by Cole Porter for a stage show in 1944.
The lyrics are appreciated viscerally and down to your soul. One of the cleverest lyric lines in music occurs when it goes, “There’s no love song finer, but how strange the change from major to minor, every time we say goodbye.”
If you listen carefully you might be able to appreciate the change in chord progression during that line from A flat major to A flat minor—a brilliant musical moment where the music and lyrics match exactly and the meaning is deepened by the chord change.