The Doctor’s Beach Towns …
He owned Monmouth Beach & Sea Bright I made a satisfying publishing career on writing for and about physicians. So it was very pleasing...
A Jersey Shore Journal ...
He owned Monmouth Beach & Sea Bright I made a satisfying publishing career on writing for and about physicians. So it was very pleasing...
For My Readers … As I continue to develop my website — mainly though posting historic local photos backed with facts — I’ve reached...
A heartbeat away from the most-powerful office on Earth. Long Branch can’t claim that a native was ever President of the United States of...
A View to Remember & More … From the base of Maine to the tip of Florida (and even as far down as the...
City Education History … The preeminent historical account of Long Branch — Entertaining a Nation — praises “three fighting superintendents” for guaranteeing the city’s...
The first borough commissioner I ever knew well was Sidney B. Johnson. No surprise there — he was a Monmouth Beach icon. Those familiar...
Start of a City … The Long Branch Casino — majestically considered and placed where the city’s two greatest boulevards meet — had a...
Looking for Summer of ’24 … With another Jersey Shore summer season approaching, I must remember — the beach is there to be shared...
It was called “Fishtown” in Entertaining a Nation and marked as “Atlanticville” on a F.W. Beers map in 1873. Many locals still call it...
The Monmouth Beach area known as “Galilee” — located roughly from Central Road to the Sea Bright border — is a borough coastal spot...
An informal public library in Monmouth Beach got its start in Borough Hall on Beach Road in March 1925, when the borough council gave...
The town’s spectacular seashore mansions … One way that the wealthy like to flex is through the building of huge houses. A fetching feature...
Few more magnificent structures have ever graced the Jersey Shore. The Octagon Hotel in Sea Bright began as a private cottage. Built in 1870...
Learning at the beach … The Monmouth Beach Public School first opened its doors to students and teachers in October 1909. The educational facility...
The borough’s true blue … The origin of Monmouth Beach Police Department dates to April 1906 with the appointment of a police committee by...
“The Break” coming to “The Neighborhood” The first residential high-rise in downtown Sea Bright is coming together smartly (the image below is a model)....