Labor Day Musings

Jogging on Long Beach Island, NJ in Late September.

One of the characteristics that I like about Labor Day in Bridgewater and, I suspect in other Central Jersey towns, is that for those of us who have not gone away for the weekend, it’s pleasantly quiet – a welcome break from the hustle and bustle that will begin anew in a few days.

The lazy, hazy, crazy days of a Nat King Cole summer song have been good this year, especially for Jersey Shore communities and their tourists who sought well-deserved pleasure in the waves of the Atlantic, the beckoning aromas of boardwalk food emporiums, and the warmth of sunshine captured by golden sands stretching over one hundred miles along coastal beaches and barrier islands of the Garden State.