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New episodes of Hometown Histories
New episodes of Hometown Histories
The newest crop of “Hometown Histories,” the Museum’s oral history interview program, is available on our website OCEANMUSEUM.ORG and as scheduled on Ocean TV—Channels 77 (Cablevision) and 22 (Verizon FiOS ).
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Early Oakhurst and OTHS
Sisters Mary Ann McKean (left) and Kathy Lyle remember family stories of their ancestral Larkin Place home and of Oakhurst in the day.
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Hometown histories producer Dallas Grove sits down with sisters Mary Ann McKean and Kathy Lyle to retell stories of Oakhurst passed down to them from their grandparents, who arrived here from Ireland in the 1890s. Kathy, a graduate of Ocean Township’s first class to spend all four years in the new high school, carries the stories forward with memories of her class’s rebellion against the school’s restrictive rules: How 1969!
Interlaken as artist colony
Joan Brown (left) interviews Elizabeth Hardy in her Interlaken home, surrounded by some of the artwork featured in her stories.
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Joan Brown’s interview with Elizabeth Hardy reveals an Interlaken that was home to some of the nation’s top illustrators. The artists found the lakeside community perfect for their studios—several of which survive today. Interlaken’s 1930s housing boom disrupted the sought-after peace and ended its reign as a noted artist’s colony.
The library grows up
Anita Nelson (right) talks with community volunteer supreme Phyllis Fyfe about her decades as a community activist and volunteer.
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Anita Nelson invites Phyllis Fyfe into the studio to share memories of a lifetime of community service. Phyllis, retired Ocean Township school librarian, remembers supporting Ocean’s first library—a set of bookshelves in the Wanamassa Fire house. She fought for the library’s move into Town Hall where it grew to be the county system’s most active branch. Today, she is a tireless moving force behind the “Friends of the Library”—and so much more.
