A Christian group allows Sunday morning access to a New Jersey beach it closed to honor God

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7. I can remember going there as a kid....

...Ocean Grove was the Methodist Summer Camp site -- all half a square mile of it.
It was a quirky place - abutting the 'wild' of Asbury Park. If you were 'lucky' you got to rent the camp-tents - a curious mash up of open shed and canvas... but there were a number of grand old Victorian era hotels.... actually it was very nice and laid back.
No cars, carts or wheeled things on 'Sunday as well as no dipping your feet in the waves -- and no alcohol (although that was true for every day) We went there mostly for the wonderful three ranked pipe organ and an organist who knew how to get the most of it as my Dad was a big fan of that organ.
It wasn't' until the 1980s that the place came up on the radar of folks -- (100 yrs after it"s founding)
Trust me folks -- they aren't some wild eyed evangelicals --they're just trying to keep tradition alive on a tiny strip of unremarkable sandy beach