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Well, redbankgreen has had the good fortune of walking, biking and driving the streets that comprise the Greater Red Bank Green, camera and notebook in hand, for a decade now.
Yes, 10 years. This site launched on June 1, 2006.
Indulgence Salon in Red Bank marks its 25th anniversary. (Click to enlarge)
(Press release from Indulgence Salon)
Indulgence, the full service hair salon, on Wallace Street, is celebrating its 25th year offering year offering beauty services to the local community, ranging from initial consultations to full color to great cuts.
The talented stylists at Indulgence bring more than 30 years of combined experience and countless hours of continuing professional development to each consultation with a client.
National Park Service spokesman John Harlan Warren explains the Fresnel lens used in the Sandy Hook Lighthouse. (Photo by Dan Natale. Click to enlarge)
By DAN NATALE
On the night of June 11, 1764, stonemason Isaac Conro watched his newest creation come to life. Several pounds of whale oil were poured into a copper lamp atop the Sandy Hook lighthouse and lit aflame, offering ships at sea a guide into New York Harbor.
On Wednesday, the 250th anniversary of that milestone, the switch was thrown on the latest additions to the 103-foot-tall lighthouse: a pair of livestream cams.
The structure – the oldest continually operated lighthouse in the United States – “is an example of how you can preserve something if you take care of it,” said John Harlan Warren, a spokesman for the National Park Service’s Gateway National Recreation Area, of which Sandy Hook is part. More →
Sandy Hook boasts the oldest operating lighthouse in the United States, one that predates and had a role in the American Revolution.
On Saturday, June 11 14, the National Park Service is throwing a birthday party of sorts for the lighthouse, now 250 years old. The event, which runs from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., will feature family-friendly activities, including musket drills for kids, historic reenactments, games and talks by lighthouse experts, including park historian Tom Hoffman. There’s no charge for admission or parking. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)
‘Mount Sandy’ and the small mountain of storm debris are gone from the beach, where Sea Brighters will gather on October 29. (Click to enlarge)
By JOHN T. WARD
How does one mark the anniversary of a once-in-a-lifetime storm that destroyed one’s home or business?
In Sea Bright, residents and merchants will note the year-ago devastation of Hurricane Sandy on October 29 with a quiet potluck dinner and a bonfire on the beach to demonstrate their own resilience and determination to recover, recreation director Kathy Morris tells redbankgreen.
“It’s going to be very low-key,” Morris said, “just a place for us to meet, greet and chat.”
Local-history librarian Elizabeth McDermott, below, with a custom-branded Eisner lightbulb in the second-floor New Jersey Room of the Red Bank Public Library, once the home of industrialist Sigmund Eisner. (Click to enlarge)
By JOHN T. WARD
On April 15, 1937, the Red Bank Public Library for decades an itinerant but growing collection of books and archival material finally found a permanent home, relocating from a downtown storefront to a mansion at 84 West Front Street.
Three months earlier, the heirs of Sigmund Eisner mass-manufacturer of uniforms for the Army, the Boy Scouts and other organizations had donated their late father’s mansion overlooking the Navesink River to the library.
The shared hope of H. Raymond, Monroe and J. Lester Eisner was that the house would provide a warm and dry place for reading, but also that it would function “as a bit of a museum, too,” says local-history librarian Elizabeth McDermott.
Next month, the library will celebrate its 75th anniversary in the house with museum-like displays that highlight Eisner and his transformative impact on Red Bank as an industrialist and philanthropist.
The event, says McDermott, “is completely about” Eisner.
Votive candles symbolized the lives of Middletown residents who died in the attack, including Louis Minervino. (Photos by Peter Lindner. Click to enlarge)
By MOLLY MULSHINE
A solemn ceremony Sunday evening marked the 10th anniversary of September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center Memorial Gardens in Middletown, the sprawling township that lost 37 of its residents in the terrorist attacks that day.
Among those present was Carmen Devaux, whose family lost a friend and co-worker, Louis J. Minervino.
“I always come [to the memorial service] because of Lou,” she said. “We just think of Lou all the time.”
The memorial ceremony provided Devaux and hundreds of Middletown residents with “a source of comfort,” she said.
Carol Bossio, with her mother, Muriel Hemschoot below, displayed the tattoo she had inked as a tribute to her brother, Mark. (Click to enlarge)
By JOHN T. WARD
The solemn formalities the presentation of the colors, the patriotic songs, the speeches and prayer had ended. Red Bank’s volunteer firefighters, in crisp dress blues, had marched out of Riverside Gardens Park, preceded by the police department and Pipes and Drums of the Atlantic Watch, a bagpipe band, to the sound of a single, snapping drum.
On the promontory overlooking a placid Navesink River in gray twilight, Muriel Hemschoot and her daughter, Carol Hemschoot Bossio, mingled with borough officials who’d known them all their lives, laughing and sharing thoughts about Mark Hemschoot, Muriel’s son and Carol’s brother, a borough fireman who died at the World Trade Center in the September 11, 2001 attacks.
As signified by the large tattoo inked on Bossio’s shoulder, the “permanent tribute” she’ll take to her own grave, there remained a gulf between those who lost loved ones and those whose experience of it was more remote, Bossio said. Still, the hourlong event had a salutary effect, she and her mother agreed.