The Trials of Dr. Carl Coppolino
60 years ago … While exploring my physician-father’s medical book collection at our home one day, I found an oddly titled one, The Practice...
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North Long Branch: Keeping Cool
It was called “Fishtown” in Entertaining a Nation and marked as “Atlanticville” on a F.W. Beers map from 1873. Many locals still call it...
Monmouth Beach: Did You Know?
This is an ongoing list, to which I will add frequently: • “Boss of the County” — It’s Monmouth County’s highest elective office. In...
End of the Railroad
The last day of business for the Monmouth Beach Train Station was Christmas Eve 1945. Rail service was officially “abandoned” then by authority of...
The Octagon — Sea Bright’s Grandest Hotel
Few more magnificent structures have ever graced the Jersey Shore — the Octagon Hotel in Sea Bright. Its “nucleus” was an original octagon-shaped seashore...
Mayors of Sea Bright (1889-present)
Mayors of the Borough of Sea Bright, NJ: Mayor Term of Office • Peter L Cruser ...
George Sheehan: “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 the better...
Celebrating 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...
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...
Pleasure Bay Images …
In an effort to expand beyond the declining oceanfront hotel scene as the 20th century dawned, Long Branch developers turned their attention to a...
MB “Library Room” @ 100
The borough “library room” opened for century … Monmouth Beach is a community of readers. As a writer — they’ve been looking at my...
Fargo in Monmouth Beach History …
The Wells Fargo Bank branch on Beach Road closed its doors permanently in October 2025 after 57 years of business. Making for a bitter...
Monmouth Beach & Sea Bright @ $30,000
A doctor owned the beach towns … I made a satisfying publishing career working as the editor of a physician’s business magazine for 12+...
Elmer Fudd in Monmouth Beach
While researching Monmouth Beach history, I’m often amazed by the caliber of people who have called this small seashore community home. One former borough...
Oldest Pharmacy in Long Branch
Pharmacist, Doctor, Mayor — All in North End The city’s longest operating pharmacy was started in North Long Branch more than 125 years ago....
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...
