Victor and Tiffany on Mt. Hermon Way. Sept. 2010. Paul Goldfinger photograph ©
BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB “Veinte Anos”
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Ocean Grove. Auditorium Park. Aerial view by Paul Goldfinger. This is not a drone photo. 2022. Click to enlarge
Every summer, the day after Labor Day, the town of Ocean Grove, as we have known it all summer long, suddenly disappears, and another version takes its place. It’s magic like the story of Brigadoon.
Here are Shirley Jones and Jack Cassidy with “The Heather on the Hill.” –Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger
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Paul Goldfinger photograph. 2020 Ocean Grove. Click to enlarge.
OG boards 2020 Paul Goldfinger photo. Blogfinger.net
Paul Goldfinger MD, Editor Blogfinger.net
For those who are aware of demographic and lifestyle changes in the Grove, there is no doubt about an influx of young people: couples and singles and kids…..and their dogs.
If you look at the 2020 census, the median age of OG is 61. Contrast this with Asbury Park= 37 and Bradley Beach =42
But I predict that the median age here is now dropping, and that is a good thing for the town.
Maybe a new generation would do a better job in shepherding the Grove to a new direction as a cultured historic residential community.
ANDY WILLIAMS:
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Paul Goldfinger. Dusk. August 12, 2021. Ocean Grove, NJ. Click to enlarge.
LAURA NYRO: “Stoned Soul Picnic.”
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Mt. Hermon, Israel. Photo source: The Children’s Village of Jerusalem
Mt. Tabor, Israel. near the Sea of Galilee. It is the site of a biblical battle between the Israelites and the army of the Canaanites.
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor Blogfinger.net.
The founders of Ocean Grove named some streets at the North End after actual elevated geographic sites in Israel. They were admirers of the Israelites and the Holy Land and they had a model of Jerusalem (1881) where the Auditorium Pavilion is now. Some called Ocean Grove “Jerusalem-By-the Sea.” The holiness movement strived to declare OG a holy city.
Postcard. Boston Public Library.
All those North End streets say “Way” as part of their street names; for example, Mt. Hermon Way, and some refer to that part of Ocean Grove as “the mountains of OG.”
Mt. Hermon Way. Paul Goldfinger photo.
Mount Hermon is a mountain cluster found between Syria and Lebanon, but its southern aspect is found in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights in the north. Its highest point is 9,232 feet.
Mt. Tabor is the site of a major battle in ancient times where 10,000 Judeans (Jews) were killed fighting their enemy.
Mt. Zion is a hill near Jerusalem.
Mt. Carmel is a mountain range near Jerusalem.
HAGEVATRON: “Jerusalem of Gold.” From the album “23 Most Famous Israeli Folk Songs.” Sung in Hebrew. Written by Naomi Sherer in 1967
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Eileen. Age 16. Machine photograph. Reposted from 2016. She was a blind date at a Fairleigh Dickinson University frat party.
KEN PEPLOWSKI and FRIENDS “All the Things You Are.” (From The International All Stars Play Benny Goodman.). Read the comment.
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Fall cottages on Stockton Avenue in Ocean Grove. Near Allegria. People love the OG cottages. Blogfinger photo 11/7/17 .
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JOHN DONNE: “No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.”
There is something special about the Stockton Avenue neighborhood where these two identical cottages live. It doesn’t seem Victorian. The architecture is variable, and the houses are mostly small in scale. They look like homes where families live and where pies are baked.
It has a quality of peacefulness and quaintness, as if it were posing for a book on small town America.
One might assume that the people who live nearby can’t bear the sight of that brick senior facility, but I think they must look there and see a park. And they also see elderly people who love living there. It is their home in this neighborhood.
Around Stockton Avenue there is a community, and it seems to be about kindness and comfort. It looks like all those who live there might share those sentiments.
Allegria residence for seniors now known as Seaton. Location is Stockton Avenue in OG. Click to see who lives there. Paul Goldfinger photo ©
HARRY JAMES AND HIS ORCHESTRA. From Woody’s film: Hannah and Her Sisters
And here’s a link to a Blogfinger post where sharing a cunning cottage is just the thing.
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St. Patrick’s Day parade. Cookman Avenue, Asbury Park. March 11, 2018. Paul Goldfinger © Blogfinger.net.
SESAME STREET with The Fugees. “Just Happy to Be Me.”
@otpulse The Fugees on Sesame Street singing “Be Yourself” #90s #90skids #90sthrowback #seasamestreet #thefugees #wyclefjean #laurynhill #trending
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Ocean Grove beach. September 29, 2015. By Michael Goldfinger. Blogfinger.net staff. © Click to enlarge
LEONARD BERNSTEIN “On the Waterfront. Moving Forward.” with the ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA. Album is the Essential Leonard Bernstein, Disc 2
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Guest photographer Jeffrey Scott calls this image “Two Pears.” I found the photo in Black & White magazine, current edition. December 2025. He is from Greenwood Village, Colorado.
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor, Blogfinger.net. Ocean Grove, NJ. USA.
Jeffrey Scott currently lives on Long Island. Like me, he does both color and black and white. This image appeals to me because of the soft lighting. It is a simple still life with no pretensions. The feel of the image is sensual. The shades of gray complement the mood where the modest highlights on the pears agree with the rest of the gentle composition which reveals a handmade quality to the bowl with the background painted leaves and olives.
It looks like an image that I might try to make. (See my soft landscape below of Fletcher Lake)
Fletcher Lake. Ocean Grove winter, 2015. Paul Goldfinger
Below is a link to a Blogfinger post that features a fruit—a black and white image by the great Paul Caponigro:
BF post featuring a fruit by a famous photographer
And here is a still life of mine with a lighthearted theme:
DAVE BRUBECK with some gentle jazz: Leonard Bernstein. “Somewhere”. Paul Desmond on alto sax.
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Bethany works at “Hey Peach Bakery” in Bradley Beach. She is new and enthusiastic. She’d like to become a chef , but currently she’s a peach. Paul Goldfinger portrait. 9/3/26. Click once to enlarge. I go there to visit my French photographs, James, Erin, Mel and now Bethany. . They’re all peaches. Eileen tagged along today and bought cream puffs for me and Stephen. Wow! They’re the best!
“Amor” by Eydie Gormé with the “Trio Los Panchos”. I bet that Bethany could play the rhythmic claves with the Trio.
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Estero, Fla. Paul Goldfinger. Jan 23, 2020 ©
Video below by Diana Krall, Yo-Yo Ma, and John Clayton: Album–“Songs of Joy and Peace” Grammy winner 2008. Song “You couldn’t Be Cuter” was written by Jerome Kern (music) and Dorothy Fields (lyric) in 1938 for the movie Joy of Living.
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OG beach. August 24, 2020. Blogfinger photo.
HURRICANE SMITH:
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