Witches’ coven arrives in the Grove for their annual “What the Heck Avenue” get-together. They parked their brooms in Asbury Park where evil spirits are at home.

OG is beginning to look a bit ghoulish for Halloween.

Installing support cables on the Belmar Fishing Pier. Bob Bowné was there, in the fog.

Bright lights for Sarah Brightman.

Angels at the Arno: Guest photographer Eric Lindbloom

FLEIADES

Ocean Grove pier: A Blogfinger timeline

Modern OG history—2023. New OG pier opened after 11 years of waiting. Now, October 9, 2025, the Coaster announces that the pier is officially “closed for the foreseeable future due to structural concerns.”

The last ride on the non-fishing pier…

“Oh Happy Day….remember the pier opening”. Re-post

Diversity Math—it adds up.

It’s a boy! Family had been waiting patiently. He’s too good to be true…

Girls in their summer clothes. The answer is blowin’ in the wind.

Jack Bredin: “no fly-by-night” protester. Re-post from 2020

“Writ for Prerogative and Writ for Mandamus”: This is some of the opaque language having to do with the “2nd Amended North End Redevelopment Plan.” Can someone translate for We-The-People?

Echoes of 1926 China: “The Sand Pebbles”

Spiders arrive ahead of witches for Halloween in the Grove.

Woody Allen: A PBS documentary. Ocean Grove gets a cameo appearance in Stardust Memories.

Cinema in Ocean Grove: Stardust Memories (1980) and the Blogfinger Film Festival #2. 2013.

Granddaughter reviews the Grove. We prefer Madeleine’s. (Best of: from 2014)