Category: Atlanticville Opinion

  • In the Arts

    The Arts Coalition of Asbury Park (ArtsCAP) is featuring Asbury Park’s own Ray Sternesky in a solo show at the John C. Conover Real Estate Agency, 200 Main St. (corner of Cookman) Oct. 7-14. The opening of the show coincides with Asbury Park’s First Saturday festivities. Sternesky’s lyrical, evocative vignettes of Asbury Park’s landmarks are…

  • Watercolor society exhibit at museum

    “Toward Sunset” by Charles Brandenburg The 64th annual Open Juried Exhibition by the New Jersey Water Color Society will run through Oct. 29 at the Monmouth Museum and Cultural Center. Gallery demonstrations by local artists will take place each Sunday in October from 2 to 4 p.m. – Oct. 8, the demonstration will be by…

  • Festival celebrates New Jersey’s poets

    Fourth Walt Whitman Poetry Festival will feature 62 poets OCEAN GROVE – Visitors to the fourth annual Walt Whitman Poetry Festival can attend workshops, poetry readings, tutorials or listen to panel discussions. The free event, being held in Historic Ocean Grove’s Auditorium Square Park on Saturday, Oct. 7, from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., will…

  • Chantey singers to perform Oct. 7

    The Northern Neck Chantey Singers, will perform Saturday, Oct. 7, at 7:30 p.m. in the United Methodist Church Hall in Keansburg. The public is invited to enjoy an evening of traditional work songs and history of the African American menhaden fishermen who worked off the coast of New Jersey. A little known tradition today, black…

  • Americans have a right to affordable health care

    I guess by this time everybody knows that there’s a health crisis in New Jersey and in the country at large, but perhaps it’s important to put some numbers on the nature of that health care crisis so that we can all begin to understand that it’s a growing crisis and not one that is…

  • ‘Dress Up’: A look at the fashions of yesteryear

    Historical Association stages exhibit of special occasion finery BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer BY CLARE MARIE CELANOStaff Writer (l-r) This advertisement of ladies modeling stylish costumes for the spring of 1873 is part of the Monmouth County Historical Association’s exhibit “Dress Up.” A deep green silk bonnet trimmed with ruffles sits in a glass…

  • In the Arts

    HARVEYGLICK Steve Graham as the Frog Prince. Running Rabbit Family Theatre (RRFT), in residence at Two River Theater in Red Bank, will present “The Frog Prince” Oct. 7-29. This funny and insightful adaptation of the Brothers Grimm classic by Patricia Goldberg and Jeff Reim features a selfish Princess and a frog who is actually a…

  • Brookdale gallery celebrates faculty art

    “Adept” by Marie Maber The Center for the Visual Arts (CVA) Gallery at Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, is hosting the Arts and Communication Faculty Exhibition through Oct. 20. An opening reception will be held today, 4:30-6:30 p.m. The showing of faculty artwork will feature painting, sculpture, photography, mixed media collage, ceramics and additional media. “The…

  • Obituaries

    Thomas A. Chevalier Mr. Chevalier, 86, of the Port Monmouth section of Middletown, died Sept. 21 at Care One at King James, Middletown. Born in Newark, he resided in Atlantic Highlands and Verona before moving to Port Monmouth 60 years ago. He was a transportation supervisor at Earle Weapons Station, Colts Neck, for 36 years,…