The Monmouth Beach Bathing Pavilion (MBBP) — the borough’s public beach club — has operated for more than a century of summers. I’ve favored...

The borough “library room” opened a century ago … Monmouth Beach is a community of readers. As a writer — they’ve been looking at...

It’s the musical equivalent of Bruce Springsteen, Charlie Puth, Billy Joel, Taylor Swift, and Frank Sinatra among others all coming to Monmouth Beach for...

Today, few people know or remember that Monmouth Beach was once a thriving commercial fishing village. While many local anglers still regularly cast off...

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...

Learning by the seashore … Formal public education in Monmouth Beach — at least the concept of it — got its start over 115...

Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, Yogi Berra and other New York Yankee baseball greats hanging out in Monmouth Beach? Yes, it happened. Most shore area...

There’s no place like home — except maybe the beach. During my deep-dive research into local history, I’ve found few things to elicit more...

In my ongoing efforts at researching Monmouth Beach history, I have found at least two United States Senators who were residents and had strong...

The Church of the Precious Blood, the borough’s only Roman Catholic house of worship, is located on Riverdale Avenue at the foot of Beach...

Monmouth Beach residents have long known they live in near paradise — all beginning as “Wardell’s Beach” some 350+ years ago. The founder and...

The wealthy founders of “Monmouth Beach” in the early 1870s were determined to avoid the “hotel crowd” scene that made up most of Long...

“Learning From the Best” … Monmouth Beach homeowners are absolutely and correctly proud about the way their town looks. Appearances count big-time in real...

80 Summers ago a Monmouth Beach man advocated for the big bomb … My father always told me that Harry Truman should be my...

The preservation and promotion of history — Monmouth Beach and beyond — is an important trust. History once past is most difficult to recapture....