By Paul Goldfinger © c.1990.
REBECCA LUKER: “Summer With You.”
Rebecca Luker
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Jersey Shore Gallery: Beach Haven
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Suffragists active at the Jersey Shore.
Posted in Blogfinger News, Jersey Shore gallery, tagged Suffragists in Long Branch on July 11, 2020| 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
“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??
The Battle of Monmouth
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 June 16, 2020| 1 Comment »
Monmouth Battlefield State Park. Atop Combs Hill. By Paul Goldfinger 2014. ©
The Battle of Monmouth took place in the vicinity of Monmouth Courthouse in Freehold. The vista above is from Combs Hill where the Continental Army had placed their artillery. The battle took place on June 28, 1778 when Gen. George Washington attacked the British in the midst of a 100 degree heat wave to regain that territory. 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.
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 like 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
BAND OF HM ROYAL MARINES: “Main Theme from Saving Private Ryan” (2006) Written by John Williams.
Asbury Park c. 1965
Posted in Asbury Connection, Asbury Park, Jersey Shore gallery, tagged July 4 Springsteen, Wesley Lake historic on June 12, 2020| 2 Comments »
Asbury Park, New Jersey. c.1965. Seen from Ocean Grove across Wesley Lake. Paul Goldfinger photo © Click left for full view.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN. 4th of July (Sandy)
“And the boys from the casino dance with their shirts open like Latin lovers on the shore
Chasing all them silly New York virgins by the score
“And Sandy, the aurora is rising behind us
This pier lights our carnival life forever
Oh, love me tonight, for I may never see you again
Hey, Sandy girl
My, my, baby…”
Till there was you…
Posted in Asbury Connection, Asbury Park Connection Photo Gallery, Jersey Shore gallery, Photography: Jersey Shore Gallery, tagged A colorful walk on the Asbury boards on May 5, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Asbury Park boardwalk. Sunday, September 14, 2014. By Paul Goldfinger © Enlarge by clicking the image.
ETTA JONES. From The Music Man by Meredith Wilson:
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 February 25, 2020| Leave a Comment »
The other side of Bradley Beach. November 2013. By Paul Goldfinger. © Click to enlarge
LES PAUL AND MARY FORD. “The Moon of Manakoora” from the soundtrack of Silver Linings Playbook.
Faith Baptist Church on Wickapecko Drive in Wanamassa (Ocean)
Posted in Jersey Shore gallery, Music: The Power to Enchant, Photographic Gallery, Black and White, tagged Faith Baptist Church in Wanamassa on December 23, 2019| 1 Comment »
Pray here. Faith Baptist Church. Wickapecko Drive, Ocean, NJ. By Paul Goldfinger © September 3, 2013. Click to enlarge.
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger
I frequently pass this church because Wickapecko Drive is a country road that provides an alternate scenic route coming back from Wegmans to the Grove. Just turn right off Sunset Avenue by the firehouse with Chief Wanamassa painted on the side (see below.)
Indians used to paddle their canoes around there. Sometimes they had to take a detour because of Township road work.
The Chief first met white men when the Ocean Township DPW began paving Sunset Avenue. That historic work continues to this day.
Legend has it that Chief W. had a vision that told him to open a Wegmans nearby. You can sometimes find him shopping there in the Kosher department for lox.
The Wickapecko Indians were Rutgers fans, and that is why they were called red men. They would go to football games with no shirts, painting RU on their chests. They have been upset since the 18th century over Rutgers football misfortunes.
The church has a woodsy setting, and the light often twinkles on the front and sides as the massive trees cast all sorts of changing shadows.
I have photographed it many times, but this image, obtained in late afternoon, after making a carrot, dill, and celery run for Eileen who was working on a batch of chicken soup, is what I had been looking for.
I shot it this time both in color and black and white, but the latter, with a “vintage” tint, looks fine.
I have never actually seen anyone enter that church, but maybe I need to go there on a Sunday morning.
THE BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA From the Imus Ranch Record II
Every Time We Say Goodbye
Posted in Blogfinger Jazz Corner, Jersey Shore gallery, Photographic Gallery: New Jersey, Photography: Jersey Shore Gallery, tagged Every Time We Say Goodbye on July 12, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Sunset Avenue in Wanamassa (Ocean Township). Paul Goldfinger photo © 2014. JOHN GOLDSBY: “Every Time We Say Goodbye”
Mt. Prospect Cemetery in Neptune Township.
Posted in Blogfinger contest, Jersey Shore gallery, tagged Name that town and place contest on July 1, 2019| 9 Comments »
Mt. Prospect Cemetery. Blogfinger photo. Oct. 11, 2014. Plots still available. It’s a lovely spot, and the residents can watch the Scarlet Fliers from there. Call 908 461 7132 for the lay-away plan. Click to enlarge.
Mt. Prospect Cemetery . Founded by Wilisford Dey, 1881. Neptune Township;
Neptune Twp was created in 1879 (carved out of Ocean Twp,) and Ocean Grove was made part of it at that time. Re-post from .net, October 2014.
Note new comment dated 7/1/19.
WYNTON MARSALIS “It’s Easy to Remember.” Marsalis studied under Phil Smith.
Pardon me boys; is that the Chattanooga Choo Choo?
Posted in BF Jazz Corner, Jersey Shore gallery, Photograph by Paul Goldfinger, tagged Bradley Beach choo choo, The other side of Bradley Beach on June 27, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Bradley Beach. Memorial Parkway. by Paul Goldfinger © April, 2014
THE ANDREW SISTERS from “All Aboard the Jazz Express.”
