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...
Author: Greg Kelly
10 Things I Love About the Beach
Hello, Summer of ’25 … With another Jersey Shore summer season upon us, I must remember — the beach is here to be shared...
MB “Library Room” @ 100
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 & USA — Celebrate ’76
Monmouth Beach-American Bicentennial — 49 years ago. In July 1976, the borough of Monmouth Beach joined in with the nation celebrating its 200th birthday...
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...
Long Branch Hotels: Great Views
Grand seashore lodgings highlight city glory … The magnificent seashore hotels that once sprawled along the Long Branch coastline are endlessly fascinating to me....
My “Monmouth College” Path …
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...
Max’s Bar & Grill — #1 in Long Branch
The city’s oldest eating establishment … So the food tale is … Max Altman opened the “first refreshment stand of any description” in Summer...
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....
Monmouth Beach — “Gold Heroes”
They were a couple of rocks in the sturdy foundation of what became Monmouth Beach — Garrett White and Nelson Lockwood. Both men exhibited...
Local Railroads: MB • LB • SB
For Gilded Age elites to make a remote seashore region (Sea Bright, Monmouth Beach and Long Branch) into an exclusive summer resort, they required...
The MB-SB Elevated Highway?
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...
Monmouth Beach From the Sky …
Aerial images of the borough … Have look at these 100+ aerial images from around Monmouth Beach — past and present. This seashore community...
Long Branch: City of Beach Clubs
Photo-essay on city sand, sea and sun … Long Branch is a beach town — one of the best ever. Shore lovers have known...
Long Branch: Keys to the City
How old is Long Branch? It goes all the way back to 1668. According to local folklore, five associates from the original Monmouth Patent...
Sea Bright: Boro of Beach Clubs
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,...
