Captured in Time
No, this is not a Hollywood-style invasion of
the
Men in Black on some distant, alien planet!
That's the way it was in the Baltimore District each August (back in the day) during the prescribed Recreation of Rule at the Brothers' retreats at Ocean Rest (Ocean City, NJ).
During each week-long retreat, the Brothers donned their black robes for their meals, chapel exercises, and conferences, and they even walked the beach (around 31st Street) for about forty-five minutes or so after supper, before the beginning of evening prayer.
This section of Ocean City of the 1940s and 1950s was much less populated than today. Nevertheless, at least one set of neighbors good-naturedly referred to the nightly spectacle as "The March of the Penguins."
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