Monmouth Beach Educates a Doctor
When my father was in his late 40s he ran for a seat on the Monmouth Beach School Board of Education. As if he...
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Monmouth Beach School History
Learning by the seashore … Formal public education in Monmouth Beach — at least the concept of it — got its start over 115...
Monmouth Beach “Yankees”
Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, Yogi Berra and other New York Yankee baseball greats hanging out in Monmouth Beach? Yes, it happened. Most shore area...
MB Bathing Pavilion History …
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...
Senators from Monmouth Beach
In my ongoing efforts at researching Monmouth Beach history, I have found at least two United States Senators who were residents and had strong...
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...
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...
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. —...
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...
