Gilinsky, Robert. Asbury Park and Neptune, p. 64. Arcadia Publishing, 2011. ISBN9780738575360 Accessed July 16, 2019. "An infamous blue law prohibited Sunday driving is documented here a few years before the courts determined that the statute was illegal in 1981. Not only was it illegal to drive in Ocean Grove, but in 1914 it became illegal to have a car parked on the street there."
"Municipal Equality Index 2013". Human Rights Campaign. Retrieved December 30, 2013. Note that Ocean Grove is listed and the encompassing Neptune Township is not, despite the fact that Ocean Grove is not a municipality and therefore most of the criteria that contribute to the index are the responsibility of the encompassing Neptune Township.
Staff. "New Jersey paddleboarder Michelle Davidson salutes Diana Nyad's Cuba to U.S. swim"Archived 2013-11-01 at the Wayback Machine, News 12 New Jersey, September 5, 2013. Accessed November 10, 2013. "Ocean Grove – A New Jersey woman has a special appreciation for Diana Nyad's recent accomplishment. Michelle Davidson, 43, paddled from Cuba to Florida as part of a relay team back in 2004.... The Neptune resident teaches business classes at Holmdel High School now, and says she plans on talking to her students about Nyad's triumph."
Junior, Chris M. "Boss Caps Guitar Fest Opener", Asbury Park Press, January 20, 2006. Accessed June 1, 2018. "The brainchild of festival co-founder and artistic director David Spelman of Ocean Grove (below, second from left), The Nebraska Project, held at the World Financial Center's Winter Garden, featured various artists performing the songs from Springsteen's 1982 solo album, plus other Springsteen tunes that were written around the same time period."
Roman, Jackie. [1], NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, August 22, 2022. Accessed September 16, 2022. "Jersey Shore pier in shape of cross in deeply religious town raises concerns."
Spoto, MaryAnn. "State sides with lesbian couple in fight against Ocean Grove association", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, December 30, 2008. Accessed August 28, 2022. "The state Division on Civil Rights ruled Sunday a lesbian couple can move forward with a discrimination complaint against Ocean Grove for refusing to let them use an oceanfront pavilion for a civil union."
Page, Tim. "'Summerfare' Offers Choir Festival", The New York Times, July 30, 1986. Accessed June 30, 2015. "Ocean Grove, about six miles south of Long Branch, was founded in 1869 as a Methodist camp meeting ground; by the early 20th century it had been dubbed the 'Queen of Religious Resorts.'"
Sullivan, Joseph F. "Ocean Grove tries to retain ideals, but not some civic burdens", The New York Times, August 22, 1982. Accessed August 8, 2012. "In 1979, however, the New Jersey Supreme Court found its charter unconstitutional because it decreed 'that in Ocean Grove the church shall be the state and the state shall be the church.' Since then, Ocean Grove has had to disband its police department and municipal court and to rely more on its parent community, Neptune Township. It has also had to drop a series of Sunday blue laws designed to enforce observance of the Sabbath and take down the chains that blocked automobiles from its entrances on that day."
Gordon, Bill. "Soapbox; Can't We All Get Along? Evidently So.", The New York Times, May 30, 2004. Accessed August 8, 2012. "Ocean Grove is a dry town: No alcohol can be bought or sold. Although that can sometimes mean more drinking (people seem to bring their own bottles just about everywhere), the lack of readily available liquor and the lack of a commercial boardwalk tend to keep things quiet and relatively safe."
Capuzzo, Jill P. "Group Loses Tax Break Over Gay Union Issue", The New York Times, September 18, 2007. Accessed August 28, 2022. "A boardwalk pavilion in the seaside town of Ocean Grove, N.J., that has been at the center of a battle over gay civil union ceremonies has lost its tax-exempt status because the state ruled it no longer met the requirements as a place open to all members of the public."
Staff. "Rev. Thomas Chisholm, 93, Dies; Wrote 1,200 Protestant Hymns", The New York Times, March 2, 1960. Accessed August 8, 2012. "Ocean Grove, N.J., March 1 – The Rev. Thomas O. Chisholm, author of 1,200 Protestant hymns and devotional verse, died tonight at the Methodist Home here.... In 1916, Mr. Chisholm moved to Vineland, where he went into the insurance business."
"A Unique Hymn Writer.; Fanny Crosby's Method of Composing Religious Verses to Order.", The New York Times, August 22, 1897. Accessed August 24, 2023. "Among the cottagers at Ocean Grove each Summer can be seen a unique and interesting old lady, whose name is known in Sunday school and church circles the world over, and who can safely say that she has more hymns to her credit than any mortal, living or dead.... She is, too, a frail, wee creature, tipping the scales at about 100 pounds, and yet, despite this life-long infirmity, Fanny Crosby has made a generous competence .and an enduring name by composing, since 1804, over 4,000 Sunday school hymns."
Capuzzo, Jill P. "An Active Night Scene Is a Major Attraction", The New York Times, August 6, 2000. Accessed June 1, 2018. "Born in nearby Ocean Grove, Mr. Pettibone got started in the music business spinning discs at CJ's record store here in the 1970's."
"Organ Recital Too Noisy: Ocean Grove Cottages Say 'The Storm' Disturbs Their Naps", The New York Times, July 16, 1909. Accessed September 17, 2013. "Ocean Grove, July 15. – Ocean Grove's new pipe organ, the largest in the world, is causing trouble for its owners, the Camp Meeting Association. : An organ recital is one of the daily events of the Summer's musical programme and its feature is the daily playing by Will C. Macfarlane of "The Storm," a composition that shows of the organ to its best advantage. : But the cottagers and the hotel guests in the vicinity of the Auditorium have become surfeited with the organ's noise. They complain that it disturbs their afternoon naps and annoys them at tea-time. : They will appeal to the association and suggest that for "The Storm" be substituted something more soothing."
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Home page, Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association. Accessed November 6, 2007.
"About Us". Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association. Archived from the original on December 30, 2013. Retrieved December 29, 2013.
"Gordon Turk CD at Ocean Grove", The Diapason, July 12, 2021. Accessed August 28, 2022. "As organist and artist-in-residence of the auditorium since 1974, Turk plays this organ for twice-weekly recitals in July and August and for Sunday services."
Harris, John F. "In Such a Tight Race, Pollster Sees a Profit; N.J.-Based Business Uses 'Robo Calling'", The Washington Post, October 31, 2004. Accessed August 8, 2012. "That would be Scott Rasmussen, who is following this anxious election with contentment from his home town of Ocean Grove, N.J., confident that he is divining the mysteries of democracy with the help of a computerized phone bank in Texas and several pleasant-voiced women in the Midwest."
Staff. "New Jersey paddleboarder Michelle Davidson salutes Diana Nyad's Cuba to U.S. swim"Archived 2013-11-01 at the Wayback Machine, News 12 New Jersey, September 5, 2013. Accessed November 10, 2013. "Ocean Grove – A New Jersey woman has a special appreciation for Diana Nyad's recent accomplishment. Michelle Davidson, 43, paddled from Cuba to Florida as part of a relay team back in 2004.... The Neptune resident teaches business classes at Holmdel High School now, and says she plans on talking to her students about Nyad's triumph."