Visions from Broadway …
The foot of Broadway is just over a mile from the Monmouth Beach-Long Branch boarder. A lot of borough families can say they did...
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MB Patriots: William Heath
For many summers and for many people, the Monmouth Beach Bathing Pavilion has been an excellent spot to relax and enjoy. And a man...
MB Bathing Pavilion Images
The Monmouth Beach Bathing Pavilion (MBBP) just concluded its 97th season. The borough’s pubic beach club since the early 1920s (the land was once...
The Trials of Dr. Carl Coppolino
Exploring my physician-dad’s small medical book collection in Monmouth Beach one day, I found an oddly titled book, The Practice of Hypnosis in Anesthesiology...
Abraham Lincoln’s Favorite Doctor
Dr. William Newell also represented the Monmouth Beach area in Congress I’m a Lincoln man. I’ve read more than 50 books about our nation’s...
There Was a Golf Course in Monmouth Beach
Monmouth Beach was probably home to the first formal golf course on the Jersey Shore.* In 1896, the Monmouth Beach Association purchased the land...
Monmouth Beach Beginnings …
Although there is coastal history on the Monmouth Beach area dating back to the late 1600s, it didn’t become an official community until 1906...
Boyle’s Tavern: MB’s Neighborhood Bar
A thoughtful local observer called it the “Fenway Park of bars” — lots of history, lots of angles, lots of character. It’s Boyle’s Tavern...
Lifeguard or Doctor?
The summer before my father began medical school, he was a lifeguard at a New York beach. Among his fellow guarding buddies were several...
Inspiration from “The Running Doc”
My physician-father called him a “true genius.” Dad also said that the two men practiced medicine together in Red Bank, NJ for about 25...
