David Prown's Calendar of Disaster

The cover of this year’s Prown’s calendar is an image of smiling children swimming on a summer day in 1965. On Broad Street.

When coming up with the idea for his annual calendar, David Prown, owner of store on Monmouth Street, said he was inspired by the efforts of the borough’s first responders to recent area storms. So, what better photographic subject to explore than storms throughout Red Bank history?

The third annual calendar, called Prown’s Remembers Red Bank Area Storms, features more than a dozen striking images from Dorn’s Classic Images in Fair Haven of storm aftermath in the Greater Red Bank area. From children soaking in the tub that is the street in front of Red Bank Catholic in 1965 to waves washing out train tracks on Monmouth Beach in the 1920’s, the calendar features a history of storm and storm damage.

And, all proceeds go to the Red Bank Office of Emergency Management.

“We want to support our first responders here in Red Bank,” Prown said during the council meeting Wednesday night. “We would love to sell 300 of these things and send a nice check to Red Bank.”

Last year Prown said he ordered a thousand calendars – Parker Family Clinic was the beneficiary that time around – but was only able to sell a few hundred. This year he’s only ordered 300 calendars from printers making them, as he said, a very limited edition collectable.

“This is Prown’s gift to Red Bank,” he said. “It really is our pleasure.”