The Rhode Island Chapter of the Jersey Shore Sound

From NJ Monthly.com, February 4, 2008:

Chances are you haven’t heard the song “On the Dark Side” for years. But it’s one of those tunes that you’d recall instantly if it popped up on the car radio. It might take a stanza or two, but soon you’d be singing along: “Ain’t nothin’ gonna save you from a love that’s blind/When you slip to the dark side you cross that line/On the dark side, oh yeah…”
 
Though it clearly sounds like early Boss, no doubt intentionally, the tune was actually the biggest hit for a journeyman group from Rhode Island called John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band, which had toiled for years on the East Coast beach-bar circuit. The big break came in 1983, when film director Martin Davidson (The Lords of Flatbush) began assembling a cast for a little movie called Eddie and the Cruisers, about a Jersey Shore garage band trying to make the big time. The film starred Tom Berenger, Ellen Barkin, and Joe Pantoliano—who has since become far better known for his role as Ralph Cifaretto in another Garden State–inspired drama—and gave fifteen minutes of fame to pouty, pretty Michael Paré, who played lead singer Eddie Wilson with the suitable combination of great hair and disaffected swagger.

Filming took place all over the Shore, most notably at landmark Tony Mart’s bar in Somers Point, and in Wildwood, where much of the story was set. The film centers on Eddie and his partner, Sal, who form a band that becomes the centerpiece of Tony Mart’s in the summer of 1962. The band gets signed and releases a hit album, but the evil head of the record company hates the follow-up and refuses to release it, causing Eddie to crack up and drive his car off the Raritan Bridge. Years later the Cruisers’ first album is re-released and again becomes a hit, revealing a mystery (that sort of doesn’t make sense) about the location of the follow-up album’s master tapes. In a final twist worthy of All My Children, Eddie resurfaces, opening the door for the sequel, Eddie and the Cruisers 2, a dreadful effort filmed, it should be noted, almost entirely in Canada.

When viewed today, clearly the best part the original film is its raw authenticity. Not only does it sound like a Shore band; it looks like the Shore. In this regard, it may be the quintessential Jersey Shore movie, Louis Malle’s Atlantic City notwithstanding. Unlike with other Shore-set treatises—the 1988 Bette Midler weeper Beaches, whose Atlantic City scenes were filmed in Coney Island; the cult CBS crime drama Wiseguy, whose first story arc was set in A.C. but filmed in Vancouver—you can almost smell the saltwater coming off the screen. And you recognize Eddie as he does what many a musician has done before and since: trudge up and down the New Jersey coastline chasing his dreams.

Circumhorizontal Arc

Circumhorizontal arcs (pictured here) occur only between 55 degrees South and 55 degrees North, usually near the time of the respective summer solstice. They are formed by plate-shaped ice crystals in high level cirrus clouds. Other accepted names for circumhorizontal arcs are circumhorizon arc and lower symmetric 46° plate arc. Due to their large angular size they are rarely seen complete and most often appear as part of a cloud, as seen here on May 23, 2012 at 39°36'5"N, 74°20'17"W.

May 23, 2012    39°36'5"N, 74°20'17"W     (Click for full-size image)

Little Egg Harbor - Defining New Jersey

The Quintipartite Deed of Revision, Between E. and W Jersey of July 1st, 1676 defined the boundary between East Jersey and West Jersey. It stated: "... from the said north partition point extending southward by a strait and direct line, drawn from the north partition southward, thro' the said tract of land, unto the most southwardly point of the east side of Little Egg Harbour aforesaid; which said most southwardly point of the east side of Little Egg Harbour is now by the consent and agreement of the said parties to these presents, called and agreed to be from henceforth called, the south partition point...". This is shown on the following map.

The first operative line was run by George Keith, the Surveyor-General of East Jersey, in 1687. Remnants of the Keith line can still be seen on today's maps in the County boundaries between Burlington and Ocean, and between Hunterdon and Somerset. Keith's line favored East Jersey by running considerably west of the line described in the Quintipartite Deed. It ran NNW from the point on Little Egg Harbor mentioned in the 1676 deed, passing just north of where Tuckerton is today, and then proceeding up toward a  point on the Delaware River just north of the Water Gap.

More: http://www.westjersey.org/