Monmouth Beach: Land of Rich & Famous
Gilded Age Glory at the Jersey Shore … By the 1880s — thanks to the advent of a shore-area railroad system and a train...
A Jersey Shore Journal ...
Gilded Age Glory at the Jersey Shore … By the 1880s — thanks to the advent of a shore-area railroad system and a train...
Hello, Summer of ’25 … With another Jersey Shore summer season upon us, I must remember — the beach is here to be shared...
The borough “library room” opened a century ago … Monmouth Beach is a community of readers. As a writer — they’ve been looking at...
Monmouth Beach-American Bicentennial — 49 years ago. In July 1976, the borough of Monmouth Beach joined in with the nation celebrating its 200th birthday...
A doctor owned the beach towns … I made a satisfying publishing career working as the editor of a physician’s business magazine. It helped...
Grand seashore lodgings highlight city glory … The magnificent seashore hotels that once sprawled along the Long Branch coastline are endlessly fascinating to me....
My early days at Monmouth College were potentially very gloomy times. By 1981 my home life was a bit rough. I’d lost two young...
The city’s oldest eating establishment … So the food tale is … Max Altman opened the “first refreshment stand of any description” in Summer...
Digital Discovery: Facts & Photos on Sea Bright, Long Branch, and Sandy Hook … I’ve sought to make this a pleasing and positive website....
They were a couple of rocks in the sturdy foundation of what became Monmouth Beach — Garrett White and Nelson Lockwood. Both men exhibited...
For Gilded Age elites to make a remote seashore region (Sea Bright, Monmouth Beach and Long Branch) into an exclusive summer resort, they required...
Area motorists — weary of the bumper-to-bumper traffic along Ocean Avenue-Route 36 in the summer — would have loved this deal. It’s a sweet...
Aerial images of the borough … Have look at these 100+ aerial images from around Monmouth Beach — past and present. This seashore community...
Photo-essay on city sand, sea and sun … Long Branch is a beach town — one of the best ever. Shore lovers have known...
How old is Long Branch? It goes all the way back to 1668. According to local folklore, five associates from the original Monmouth Patent...
It’s the ultimate beach town. Folks have been coming to Sea Bright for sea, sand and sun for over a century. Young and old,...
The borough’s First Aid Squad has come a long way since its founding 65 years ago. The all-volunteer group is today called the Monmouth...