Sea Bright Education History
Learning in the Past … With few dollars and even fewer students, Sea Bright public education efforts started humbly. Total annual town spending on...
Author: Greg Kelly
Long Branch’s Almost President
A heartbeat away from the most-powerful office on Earth. Long Branch can’t claim that a native was ever President of the United States of...
Eliakim Wardell: Monmouth Beach Founder
Monmouth Beach residents have long known they live in near paradise — all beginning as “Wardell’s Beach” some 350+ years ago. The founder and...
Green Inn — Galilee Glamor
The wealthy founders of “Monmouth Beach” in the early 1870s were determined to avoid the “hotel crowd” scene that made up most of Long...
“Road Scholars” — Borough Public Works Leadership
“Learning From the Best” … Monmouth Beach homeowners are absolutely and correctly proud about the way their town looks. Appearances count big-time in real...
10 Things I Love About the Beach
Summer of ’25 … With another Jersey Shore summer season upon us, I must remember — the beach is here to be shared with...
Doctoring by the River …
Hospitals were sacred territory to my physician-father. Life transforming and medically heroic at their best; clean and caring at a minimum. He spent the...
Monmouth Beach & the Atomic Age
80 Summers ago a Monmouth Beach man advocated for the big bomb … My father always told me that Harry Truman should be my...
America’s Best Beaches for ’25
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,...
Find a Monmouth Beach Connection
Try to Locate You or Yours (click on the image to enlarge) … This photo was taken in 1974 on Raccoon Island for the...
Monmouth Beach Faithful Observers …
The preservation and promotion of history — Monmouth Beach and beyond — is an important trust. History once past is most difficult to recapture....
Commerce Corner in Monmouth Beach
The Mayor’s Market … A neighborhood cornerstore is something found in many American communities. Like in Monmouth Beach. Down through the years many a...
Normandie Hotel — Sea Bright Palace
The magnificent Normandie-by-the-Sea Hotel in Sea Bright was “exclusive and expensive” in its all-too-brief prime. It had a lot to live up to. The...
Umbrellas to Billionaires — the Life of Jim Maguire
The guy traveled a long way from his first job as an umbrella boy at the Monmouth Beach Club. James J. Maguire, Sr. —...
MB Railroad Images …
Many seasoned borough residents know that a train once ran through town. Monmouth Beach also had a railroad station — two in fact. The...
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...
