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For My Readers … As I continue to develop my website — mainly though posting historic local photos backed with facts — I’ve reached...
A Jersey Shore Journal ...
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...
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...
Hospitals were sacred territory to my physician-dad. Clean and caring at a minimum; life transforming and medically heroic at their best. He spent the...
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...
National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration Predicts “Near-Normal” Storm Season Living at the shore comes at a price. Wise lifelong residents know this. Natural forces of...
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...
Local Stories Worth a Look … Summer season on the Jersey Shore is here. Have a look at this “Summer of ’23” post and...
To a healthy & happy Summer of ’23 … The summer before my father began his medical school studies — over 80 years ago...
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...
My siblings sometimes tell me that I tend to over-glorify my physician-dad and his life. Perhaps … but I’m a storyteller and my father...
In the Summer of 1968, during his prime as a practicing physician, my father was appointed to our local bank’s Advisory Board (then the...