DANNY ELFMAN. From the soundtrack of Silver Linings Playbook: “Walking Home”
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DANNY ELFMAN. From the soundtrack of Silver Linings Playbook: “Walking Home”
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MONICA ZETTERLUND (Swedish jazz singer) and THE BILL EVANS TRIO. This is from an album called Waltz for Debby which was recorded in 1964 to great critical acclaim.
“Once Upon a Summertime” is a French song written by Michel Legrand. Johnny Mercer wrote the English lyrics as heard in this album.
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Ocean Grove, NJ. Fletcher Lake, by Paul Goldfinger © Posted on November 1, 2012. Click all photos to enlarge.
Ocean Grove , the morning after Sandy hit on the evening of Oct. 29. 2012. By Bob Bowné; special to Blogfinger ©
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger.net
The huge storm of October 29, 2012, has been such an iconic event for the Jersey Shore that photographs of Superstorm Sandy in Ocean Grove/Neptune and its aftermath will become a genre of its own, as occurred with Bob Bowné’s now famous image of the surf thundering into shore, demolishing the OG Fishing Pier. (here is a BF link regarding Bob’s photo: Bob Bowné iconic Sandy photo Oct. 29, 2012. )
You can use our search box (top right) to see some of our Sandy photographs of OG which have been published on Blogfinger.
Sandy was a turning point for our town—a momentous event which continues to influence how Ocean Grove has been evolving recently. This town has become more popular as city-folk and North Jersey people have heard about us. Now, they seek protection from the virus, and the town continues to change dramatically with many second-homers replacing year-round residents.
The storm showed us our physical vulnerability. Luckily, we were not hit nearly as hard as other places at the Shore.
Sandy revealed the potential of OG to come together as a community and it showed how much this town means to people all over the world. As some of you may recall, the day after Sandy hit, Blogfinger received 25,000 hits. Ocean Grove is a very special place.
Volunteers from all over, including New England, arrived and went to work. The Camp Meeting set up facilities for them, and in the Community Room they offered Wi-Fi access and information about assistance for victims.
Ordinary citizens drove into town and found ways to help at the beach front.
Neptune Township failed to help at the Ocean Avenue-boardwalk-beach. They did not show over a technicality, ie that they have no jurisdiction over those privately owned locations.
Unfortunately, the Camp Meeting Association, which welcomed the help, financial and physical from the residential community in town has now become more self centered and oblivious to those who actually live here. Evidently they learned nothing of the potential “community ” of Ocean Grove which could have evolved out of Sandy. Their idea of “community” is those outsiders who are religious tourists.
Other towns along the Jersey Shore have also been changing since Sandy, but this town, with its definition as a historic residential community should have grabbed that momentum and run with it. But no, as we see with the North End situation, we are still failing to define ourselves as a special small town community with everyone caring about the town’s future. Factions continue to divide the Grove.
STUART MATTHEWMAN. From the original movie soundtrack of the film Twin Falls, Idaho–“Amapola”
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By Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger
Kerri Martin, the Director of Second Life Bikes” at 21 Main Street, right outside the OG gates and a little to the right, presides over an ocean of used bicycles within a cavernous space that looks like it could house a brewery or an armory. Kerri founded this “community organization” in 2006 when she ran it out of a garage as a sort of bike church.
The idea is to help the community and promote solid values through the “resurrection” of bicycles and secondarily of endangered poor kids. She says the program “changes the destiny of people and bikes.”
People donate old bicycles to the group, and they are fixed up by a team of 3 experts: Kerri, Pete and Terry. Then the bicycles can be purchased from $60.00 up or given to kids free through the “Youth Earn a Bike” program. Kids ages 12-18 must work 15 hours to get a bike. They learn how to use tools and restore life to damaged cycles.
Kerri is quite famous around these parts for her witticisms which she writes by hand on a blackboard outside the shop. She says that she is giving vent to her “inner comedian.” The program has been covered by national media, but now Blogfinger gets a shot.
I brought over my son’s Huffy which had been ridden twice before the brakes failed. Pete, a bike repairman and raconteur found that the bike was fine, but it had been assembled wrong. So much for the great deal at Walmart. Pete is originally from Jersey City and he used to do darkroom photography, so we had a few things to talk about. Pete has a short graying pony tail; maybe I should get one of those.
Kerri isn’t sure what this building was used for in the past, but it stood empty for many years before Kerri and her biker gang took over four years ago. I felt like Bob Bowné at the silk mill when I roamed around taking photos. But unlike the silk mill, this strange building has humans and cats milling about still.
Kerri said that another blogger was due in for an interview and photo-shoot, but, at least for today, Blogfinger got the scoop.
The crew at the 2nd Hand Bike-land also consists of volunteers, and visitors are welcome. You Grovers should walk over there and step inside. It is a fascinating and unique treat. You might even be inspired to make a donation—the 2nd Hand biker gang wants to buy the building and continue the good deeds at that very special location
BARBRA STREISAND from her greatest hits album:
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KRISTIN CHENOWETH. This time of year, there is often a concern that someone who should come home will not be present.
Here is Kristin Chenoweth’s live performance of “Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again,” by Andrew Lloyd Weber, from the Phantom of the Opera.
It’s from Kristin’s concert album, 2014, called Coming Home. It was recorded at the Kristin Chenoweth Theater in her hometown of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.