America’s Best Beaches for ’26
Nothing too close … that’s good! He’s known popularly as “Dr. Beach.” Director of the Florida International University Laboratory for Coastal Research in Miami,...
Author: Greg Kelly
City Schools: Long Branch Learning
Long Branch Education History … The foremost historical account of Long Branch — Entertaining a Nation — praises “three fighting superintendents” for guaranteeing the...
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...
Monmouth Beach Club — Over 100 Years
The Monmouth Beach Bath & Tennis Club (known popularly as “The Club”) rests along Ocean Avenue. This fabulous Atlantic coast building is the definitive...
Seasons in the Sun: Local Beach Clubs
Summers Remembered in Monmouth Beach, Long Branch and Sea Bright … There’s no place like home — except maybe the beach. Generations of local...
10 Things I Love About the Beach
Ready for Summer ’26 … As another Jersey Shore summer season approaches I am reminded — the beach is here to be shared with...
Images of Sandy Hook …
It has 500 years of history — going back to the 1520s when Giovanni da Verrazzano became the first European to explore our “Jersey...
Highlands-Sea Bright Bridge Images
Gateway to the Jersey Shore … Since the first bridge opened in 1872, a total of four river crossings have connected Sea Bright and...
Highland Beach — Playground Past
“Sandy Hook’s historic resort paradise” The beginning of Highland Beach as a seashore resort dates back to the “Gilded Age.” This iconic shore location...
“The Reservation” — Long Branch’s Cottage Colony
By Michael Sheehan Going Back 125 Summers … It’s an amusing tale about a forgotten era in city life. Visitors to the popular Seven...
Long Branch City Hall History
Most Long Branch residents know their City Hall — a fortress-like structure set boldly on Broadway. For over 130 years the site has been...
North Long Branch: Keeping Cool
It was called “Fishtown” in Entertaining a Nation and marked as “Atlanticville” on a F.W. Beers map from 1873. Many locals still call it...
“Pool Club Row” in Long Branch
Pool & Surf Swimming in the City … Times 3 The old Long Branch pier and boardwalk area — in all its guises —...
Grandpa Kelly’s Seashore Hotel
Long Branch — in addition to its myriad other glories — might well have been called “Hotel City” during its heyday times. Over the...
Nauvoo — Start of Sea Bright
Birth of a beachtown … It was first called “Nauvoo.” The area’s original settlers — Nathan Woolley, William Giles, and Johnty Smith — probably...
Sea Bright Civics …
Forever complicated, Sea Bright — in fact, has two birthdays. The first official gathering to incorporate “the borough Seabright” took place in February 1887...
