A TRIBUTE TO STEPHEN SONDHEIM:
Were you ever taken to the cleaners? Ocean, New Jersey. 2013. By Paul Goldfinger©
STEPHEN SONDHEIM. From ” Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” (the album is Putting It Together)
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“Oh, oh, wouldn’t she be so nimble, fiddling with her thimble…..” Stephen Sondheim
Posted in Jersey Shore gallery, Photography by Paul Goldfinger on June 5, 2026| 3 Comments »
The Battle of Monmouth. 1778.
Posted in Jersey Shore gallery, Music from the movies, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photographic Gallery, Black and White, Photographic Gallery: New Jersey, Photography: Jersey Shore Gallery, tagged Battle of Monmouth Courthouse, Monmouth Battlefield State Park on April 16, 2026| 1 Comment »
Monmouth Battlefield State Park. Photograph atop Combs Hill. By Paul Goldfinger 2014. . Click once to enlarge.
Paul Goldfinger, MD, Editor Blogfinger.net
The Battle of Monmouth took place in the vicinity of Monmouth Courthouse in Freehold.
On a blistering hot day on June 28, 1778 the land that is now Monmouth Battlefield State Park was the site of one of the longest battles of the American Revolutionary War.
From the “State Parks Information”: “Here at Monmouth, Washington restored a reputation battered by defeats in 1777. In the day-long battle in the hills, wood lots, farm fields and meadows, the main Continental Army, retrained at Valley Forge, repulsed attacks by the main British Army.
By the end, over 600 men were dead, dying or wounded and the Continental Army held the field.”
The vista above is from Combs Hill where the Continental Army had placed their artillery.
The park is a beautiful place where you can visit, picnic, ride horses or sleighs. The visitor center is near where I was standing to make this photograph. The address is 16 Rt 33 Business in Manalapan.
I enjoy photographing battlefields, although this is only my second. The first is Gettysburg which we have visited quite a few times. Battlefields are evocative of so many qualities of man including bravery, fighting for right and freedom, loyalty and sacrifice.
It seems as if you can time- travel back in such a place as this, and that is an emotional experience.
I tried to capture that mood in this photograph which is much better felt in black and white than with color. —
Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger.net
BAND OF HM ROYAL MARINES: “Main Theme from Saving Private Ryan” (2006) Written by John Williams.
The sad or happy carousel horse at Exit 82. Reflections after the summer season—2015
Posted in Jersey Shore gallery, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, Photography at The Jersey Shore, Photography in New Jersey, tagged Carousel in Seaside Heights on March 31, 2026| 2 Comments »
Seaside Heights. October 12, 2015. Paul Goldfinger photo. Click once to grab the brass ring and enlarge the photo.
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger (Re-posted 2026 from October 2015)
This carousel horse, photographed after the season in Seaside Heights, reminds me of Broadway—sometimes happy and sometimes sad. I’m thinking of the show Carousel which proclaims, “June is busting out all over.”
The Fantasticks has a song called “Round and Round” which begins as a gorgeous fantasy—-“Life is a colorful carousel,” but later the song becomes dark, sad, and scary.
However, for the most part, Broadway brings us joy as in “Oh What a Beautiful Morning” from Oklahoma.
I see this carousel, devoid of riders and seemingly sad because the season is over, and yet the scene, like a Broadway set, is bursting with vivid colors and, in a way, with memories of life itself.
So, in wondering about this photograph and how to see it, I decided that it is joyful and not sad, and if the horse could talk he would say, ” Please sir, I want more oats” (sorry for the Oliver joke, such as it is.) I wonder how a child would view it.
And certainly now, in 2021, with Broadway (and even the London stage) mostly dark for an indefinite period of time, we will have to wait to experience the joy of the musical stage.
Of course, we can still hear the music. We try to keep that music alive on Blogfinger. It’s easy to forget, but we won’t. (Thanks Mom!)
Here is MIMI HINES from a show called “The Roar of the Greasepaint—the Smell of the Crowd.” It is a happy song full of the sort of vivid optimism that we often find in Broadway musicals and, sometimes, in life.
Big-Dawg-at-Dusk. Avon-By-the-Sea.
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Jersey Shore gallery, Photograph by Bob Bowné, Photographic Gallery: New Jersey, Photography at The Jersey Shore, tagged Avon-by-the-sea on March 31, 2026|
Bob Bowné. January 14, 2016. © Special to Blogfinger. No extra charge for the hyphens.
MAUDE MAGGART sings Irving Berlin
Jersey Shore Gallery: Spring Lake
Posted in Jersey Shore gallery, tagged Lawrence Lebo sings I Want a Butter and Egg Man. on March 20, 2026|
Photo by Paul Goldfinger © Dec. 2013. A look back on 3rd Avenue, Spring Lake, NJ
LAWRENCE LEBO: “I Want a Butter and Egg Man” with the “Little Big Band” from the album Don’t Call Her Larry.
The Garden State. Colts’ Neck, Monmouth County, New Jersey.
Posted in Jersey Shore gallery, Photography: Black and White gallery, tagged Colts Neck, The Garden State on March 14, 2026|
Paul Goldfinger © Rt. 34, Colt’s Neck, NJ. USA. Click once to enlarge.
BUDAPEST PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA. “Cavalleria Rusticana: Intermezzo sinfonico.” By Pietro Mascagni. From the film Raging Bull. Re-posted from June, 2014.
This place is at Delicious Orchards. Don’t miss it.
Jersey Shore Gallery: Red Bank
Posted in Blogfinger Jazz Corner, Jersey Shore gallery, Music, Music from the stage, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, tagged MUSIC--Count Basie, Red Bank on February 14, 2026| 1 Comment »
Broad Street. Red Bank, NJ. Birthplace of Count Basie. By Paul Goldfinger . Reposted on Blogfinger.net. Click once
SOUNDTRACK: “It Had to be You.” The Count Basie Orchestra.
Boardwalk—Asbury Park Casino: August, 2012.
Posted in Jersey Shore gallery, Music from the movies, tagged John Cafferty--Boardwalk Angel, Tonight's the night for a brand new start on January 30, 2026|
In Asbury Park near border with Ocean Grove, looking south. August 2012. Paul Goldfinger photo. Click once
JOHN CAFFERTY AND THE BEAVER BROWN BAND. “Boardwalk Angel” (From Eddie and the Cruisers)
Suffragists active at the Jersey Shore.
Posted in Blogfinger News, Jersey Shore gallery, tagged Suffragists in Long Branch on January 22, 2026| 2 Comments »
Suffragists put up a poster in Long Branch, 1915. Photo from the Library of Congress in Remembering the Jersey Shore by Joe Czachowski, 2010.
Christabel Pankhurst. British protestor (for the vote.) From PBS doc. About 1905.
Riots and violence in London. Suffragists beaten and arrested. PBS.
By Paul Goldfinger, MD. Editor, Blogfinger.net. 2020
“Votes for women” activists were busy in the summer of 1915. These three were advertising a speech by activist Anna Howard Shaw whose biography The Story of a Pioneer”was published that year. Suffragists organized concerts, lectures, parades and even ball games from Keyport to Atlantic Highlands to Asbury Park.
Alice Paul, an American feminist, was born in Mt. Laurel, NJ (see Ocean Grover Mary Walton’s book about Alice Paul, available at the Comfort Zone).
If you watch the PBS special on the Suffragists, you will see Mary, former Blogfinger reporter, interviewed.
Alice Paul, a Jersey Girl and a feminist.
The Historical Society of Ocean Grove has a great deal of information about the women’s movements in OG.
SOUNDTRACK: COUNT BASIE AND TONY BENNETT—What is the world coming to?
Jersey Shore Gallery: Interlaken
Posted in Blogfinger News, Jersey Shore gallery, tagged Jersey Shore Gallery---Interlaken on December 20, 2025| 1 Comment »
Interlaken, New Jersey. Paul Goldfinger photo
By Paul Goldfinger, MD. Editor Blogfinger.net
Interlaken is just across Deal Lake from Asbury Park. It is .4 square miles and consists of 395 homes. The population is 820. The land in that area was purchased from the Lenape indians in 1667. Later it was purchased by a Boston physician who called it Interlaken Farms (after a town in Switzerland). It was incorporated into a borough in 1922. Interlaken has no business district. Its business is having no business.
KATHY BRIER comments on taxes: From Boardwalk Empire:
Seaside Heights, 2010
Posted in Blogfinger News, Jersey Shore gallery, tagged Seaside Heights carousel on November 16, 2025| 3 Comments »
By Paul Goldfinger 2010 Seaside Heights.
One of two carousels were destroyed in the 2013 fire at the Seasides. I think this one survived. PG. Blogfinger.net
EYDIE GORME. Stephen Sondheim’s “Send in the Clowns.”
Jersey Shore Gallery: Atlantic City beach
Posted in Jersey Shore gallery, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, tagged Atlantic City beach on Blogfinger. on November 14, 2025|
Urban explorers. Atlantic City, NJ. Undated. Silver gelatin print. By Paul Goldfinger. Blogfinger.net Click to enlarge. 201r5
STACEY KENT (vocal) and JIM TOMLINSON (tenor sax:) from their album A Fine Romance
Grey Skies in Bradley Beach…
Posted in Jersey Shore gallery, Music from the movies, New Jersey events and photographs, tagged Grey skies in Bradley Beach on September 28, 2025| 1 Comment »
The other side of Bradley Beach. Along Memorial Drive. November 2013. By Paul Goldfinger. © Click to enlarge
Residential project going up in Bradley Beach A similar building is behind this one. Paul Goldfinger photo. And there will be others. Bradley is coming alive, and living near the train station will be a big deal for commuters to New York. September 22, 2025. Click once to enlarge.
Bradley Beach is coming alive with residential construction along the tracks. Above is such a project on Memorial Drive at 9th Avenue. A similar building is under construction behind the one about. Paul Goldfinger photo:
LES PAUL AND MARY FORD. “The Moon of Manakoora” from the soundtrack of Silver Linings Playbook.