These are film students from the NYU Tisch School of the Arts who were participating in the 2012 1st Annual Blogfinger Film Festival in the Grove. This is the sort of activity that brings communities together; not giant tourist traps.
This is what the American Planning Association said in 2017: “The Ocean Grove Chamber of Commerce and the Camp Meeting Association sponsor public activities that encourage social activity and create an overall sense of community.”
Do you think that they meant the Giant Flea Market, or the British Car Show, or Camp Meeting week?
Where did the APA get the fake news that led them to their conclusions? Do you you suppose they got their background info from the CMA and the Chamber?
Did they talk to any of the largely secular residential community in OG? Did they actually visit some “neighborhoods” in the Grove and learn about our porch culture?
This is what the locals, who tend to be cynical about these matters, think about that:
And by the way, Blogfinger will sponsor the Town-Wide Annual Yard Sale on Saturday June 18, 2022.
This is a comfortable annual event enjoyed mostly by Grover locals.
It’s also the date of the Giant Craft Show sponsored all day by the CMA, and you can hear the giant sucking sound of tourists being lured into town in large numbers.
We are keeping our schedule knowing that most of our participants are from the OG neighborhoods: We walk and ride our bikes.
Maybe we will enjoy some visitors from the giant show on the Pathway who might want to meet some genuine Grovers and get some cool local stuff.
Some out of towners will also come specifically for the yard sales, although parking will be tight that day, and it is an example of how local community activities can be smothered in prime season by the tourist hordes sponsored by Grover organizations such as the CC and CMA which don’t care about the residents of our small town.
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