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Festival of the Sea
Point Pleasant Beach, NJ · Festival
- When
- September 19, 2026
- Where
- Downtown, Arnold Ave & Bay Ave · Point Pleasant Beach · NJ
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
A large downtown street festival with more than two hundred and fifty craft vendors, live music, and a beer and wine garden, run by the Point Pleasant Beach Chamber of Commerce. Now in its forty eighth year, it is one of the Jersey Shore's biggest fall street fairs.
The history within reach
- Festival of the Seasame spot
A large downtown street festival with more than two hundred and fifty craft vendors, live music, and a beer and wine garden, run by the Point Pleasant Beach Chamber of Commerce.
On 10 January an Army team at a coastal radar camp aimed a bedspring antenna at the rising moon and, two and a half seconds later, heard their own pulse come back, the first time a human signal had reached another world and returned.
A Methodist camp-meeting association bought a mile of shorefront and ran it as a religious town, a tent city that never came down, six hundred canvas-and-wood cottages still pitched each summer around a vast wooden auditorium.
- The Asbury Park uprising9.4 mi
The tourist money stopped a block short of the West Side, where the Black families who staffed the hotels lived without the jobs or the housing the boom was making.
A bar on a fading boardwalk that became the room where Bruce Springsteen and Southside Johnny worked out a whole sound, the E Street Band half-formed on its stage on the nights Bruce turned up unannounced to sit in.