You gotta love Sea Bright! There’s a town with spirit, pride and gratitude. It’s a town even a fierce and angry Mother Nature can’t conquer.
Saturday afternoon, from 4 to 6 p.m., the powers that be in this borough got together and decided it’s proper and fitting to celebrate ten years since Super Storm Sandy. Ten years to the day since the ocean met the river in fierce waves and wind, wiping out so much of this strip of land that is the home and workplace of such determined and never-say-die residents.
There’s going to be music and food, friendship and memories, a couple of speeches to show what great people live here, and a ton load of thanks to the businesses that picked up, dried off, rebuilt, and are the salvation of the business district.
Everyone is invited to share in the celebration that is such a wonderful way to acknowledge that it was a decade ago when so much devastation happened, so many lives were changed, so many suffered through power and water losses for so long, so many lost homes and businesses and so much more. Yet here are those very same people, families and businesses that picked themselves up, spit in Mother Nature’s face and made it clear they are living proof of what tough stock is and that it’s alive and well in Sea Bright. And they don’t quit.
The townspeople feel they are almost back to normal; their business district is thriving, their homes are rebuilt, their friendships intact, and their pride broad enough to counter any big storm ever.
There are also the new businesses who weren’t afraid to start up in Sea Bright after such a shattering event. You remember the post office by the bridge. That’s Tommy’s Restaurant spot now, and that late beloved restaurateur he came in with vigor and force and a positive attitude after the storm and is now one of the most popular of the many wonderful eateries in Sea Bright. We all owe it to Sea Bright to try out some of those restaurants and meet some of those strong folk that picked up worked hard, and are now celebrating that “they’ve done it!”
Sea Bright doesn’t take a back seat to anyone when it comes to having a positive attitude!. Congratulations all you wonderful people. You have ever right to celebrate. You can remember, of course, and you can grieve and look back on all you’ve lost. But you re different, you are also looking forward to a brighter future, happier days, and pride in all you’ve accomplished.
Thanks, Sea Bright, you make me proud to know you!
Monmouth University is also remembering Sandy beginning October. 27 with several events recalling all the destruction and ruin. One of those events is a great film produced by County Clerk Christine Hanlon. Called The Jersey Shore: Sandy in Monmouth County, it’s worth going to the University’s Pollak Theater at 1:30 Friday, Oct. 28, and seeing 20 minutes of spectacular photography showing Sandy’s havoc throughout the County. There is no charge, just a great film if you want to re-live that terrible part of the past. Check out Monmouth’s website at UCIMonmouth@EDU for their events page. Register to sign up for ZOOM if you can’t make the showing live.
brings back memories of when I purchased Sea Bright Pharmacy from Mr. Goldberg in 1960. It was a time of Jim Bishop, who held court at the local tavern daily. a time of Hurricaine floods washing in from the Peninsula Hotel onto the front windows of the pharmacy which was sandbagged in front while the water flowed in from the River in the back up to 2 feet in the store.Sea Bright was a great place for a pharmacy at the location where sandy brought the whole building down.1090 Ocean Ave.
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