The pursuit of happiness is so important to human beings or at least to Americans, that it was written into the Declaration of Independence as one of our unalienable rights. The pursuit continues. The promise behind fame, fortune, great love, good hair, a shiny new car, the right neighborhood...whatever, is attached to the idea that happiness may follow if only.

As spring returns, so to does hope and a renewed sense that happiness is more readily available on the warmer beams of sunlight upon our faces. No material thing has the power to lift spirits like the changing season, winter to spring. As we transcend through transition, About Town columnist and producer Steve Rogers took to the streets of Red Bank as the season changed to find out what makes "us" happy.