A Forgotten Father
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...
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Monmouth Beach Library History
An informal public library in Monmouth Beach got its start in Borough Hall in March 1925, when the borough council gave permission to a...
Griffin Park … the Playing Fields of MB
Generations of borough residents remember the spot as one where they came of age athletically — or tried and didn’t. For some 70 years,...
Monmouth Beach Clubhouse Hotel Images
It is the spot where Monmouth Beach all began. Eliakim Wardell, who first settled the area, broke ground on a farmhouse at what’s now...
Riding the Monmouth Beach Rails
If America’s late 18th century “High and Mighty” were going to make a then remote seashore region (Monmouth Beach and Long Branch) a summer...
A Tale of Two Sisters …
They are forever elusive to me. I wish so much I could have known them better. To be with them — if only for...
History of the MB Bathing Pavilion
A changed MBBP is expected to open for the ’19 season on Memorial Day weekend … The idea of a borough-owned bathing facility became...
Gilded Age Tycoon Loved MB
”The richest, most powerful banker in history” During the late 19th Century — and probably even today — the 1.6-mille Ocean Avenue section of...
Pete Dawkins: A Call to Duty
(This interview was conducted in 2010.) What can you say about Peter Dawkins? Well, he’s a U.S. Army General, Rhodes Scholar, Husband and Father,...
The Epicenter of Monmouth Beach
As a once sparse shore area known as “Monmouth Beach” became a privileged resort back in late-1800s times, at the center of the action...
