Over the River: King & President
The new Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge — opened in July 2025 — is the sixth connection between two distinctive boroughs over the past 150 years....
Author: Greg Kelly
Near Miss for “Sky King”
Juan Trippe survived to build an air empire … The railroad played a major role in the early development of our shore area dating...
Monmouth Beach Life Photo Collection
Digital Discovery: Facts & Photos on Sea Bright, Long Branch, and Sandy Hook … I’ve sought to make this a pleasing and positive website....
Seasons in the Sun: Our Beach Clubs
Summers Remembered in Monmouth Beach, Long Branch and Sea Bright … There’s no place like home — except maybe the beach. During peak summer...
Channel Club Tower: Shrewsbury’s Sentinel
I grew up literally in its shadow — watching a tower and massive steel and concrete auto garage fill the large riverfront acreage we...
Lady Led Learning in Tough Times
Helen Kittell West, Principal of the Monmouth Beach School (1922-1946). A borough education leader during very trying times — all through the Great Depression...
A Booth-Full of Brothers
On Long Branch and a presidential assassin … John Wilkes Booth’s place in American infamy is secure forever. History records that JWB certainly visited...
Long Branch Pier & Boardwalk History
Witness to the incineration of a city landmark … It had an aura and electricity all its own. Today, few people know, and even...
Long Branch Hotels: Great Views
Grand oceanfront lodgings highlight city glory … The magnificent seashore hotels that once sprawled along the Long Branch coastline are endlessly fascinating to me....
Monmouth Beach From the Sky …
Aerial images of the borough … Have look at these aerial images from around Monmouth Beach — past and present. The seashore community is...
Surviving Superstorm Sandy …
13 years ago this month … It’s been more than a decade since the Monmouth Beach, Long Branch and Sea Bright area felt the...
MB & SB — Sold for $30,000
A doctor owned the beach towns … I made a satisfying publishing career working as the editor of a physician’s business magazine. It helped...
Peninsula House: Shore Splendor
It’s hard to call it Sea Bright’s most iconic oceanfront building. There have been so many others. But few, if any, had a nickname....
Visiting Monmouth Heights
A View to Remember & More … From the base of Maine to the tip of Florida (and even as far down as the...
Monmouth Beach Clubhouse Hotel …
Monmouth Beach Clubhouse Hotel images: The once spectacular Monmouth Beach Clubhouse Hotel — situated around the Beach Road, River Avenue and Club Circle area...
“Bishop” of Sea Bright
Sea Bright Characters: My physician-father had his share of “famous patients.” Including one reputed New Jersey mobster boss, who when asked by dad what...
