Every year around this time I think about my late father-in-law, James F. Norton, Jr. Each summer he would make a sojourn from Monmouth...

Experts Predict “Extremely Active” Storm Season … Living at the shore comes at a price. Wise lifelong coastal residents know this. It’s understood that...

There’s no question that earning a medical degree takes some smarts. My physician-dad from Monmouth Beach would tell me that the profession was “the...

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...

A grand glance of old Monmouth Beach … She is the borough’s “artist-in-residence” — Gail H. Gannon — now in perpetuity upon her passing...

From 1968 to 1975, during his prime as a practicing physician, my father served on our local bank’s Advisory Board (the Monmouth Beach bank...

Hospitals were sacred territory to my physician-dad. Life transforming and medically heroic at their best; clean and caring at a minimum. He spent the...

In today’s trouble times it’s uplifting to reflect on how two different men found a friendship. In following my dad’s medical career I learned...

For My Readers … As I continue to develop my website — mainly though posting historic local photos backed with facts — I’ve reached...

While exploring my physician-father’s medical book collection at our home one day, I found an oddly titled one, The Practice of Hypnosis in Anesthesiology...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the death of my older sister, Alice Ward Kelly, R.N. She’d be a senior citizen now if...

It was 80 Christmas seasons ago, with war raging around the globe, when a mother sat down and wrote a simple but powerful letter...

My physician-father called him a “true genius.” Dad also said that the two men practiced medicine together in Red Bank, NJ for the better...

It’s been over a decade since the Monmouth Beach, Long Branch and Sea Bright area felt the awful wrath of Mother Nature. It was...

My physician-dad had plenty of doctor buddies, but only one was included in his bedside photograph collection when he died in March 2007. My...

His great-great grandfather lived here — Abraham Lincoln — America’s greatest President* — had Monmouth County family roots. According to A. Lincoln, a very...