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Featured image: Composite image, stylized photograph of Dorothy Parker coverted to appear like an oil painting, cropped, courtesy Dorothy Parker Society; photograph of commemorative marker at Parker birthplace in West End, photo credit: Randall Gabrielan, used with permission. Composite by John R. Barrows.
August 22, 1893

Dorothy Parker – The Accidental Monmouthite

Editor’s note: On August 22, 1992, 300 people showed up at West End Park in Long Branch to see celebrities such as New York Daily News gossip columnist Liz Smith, famed biographer Margaret Meade, a former New York City Council
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Official White House portraits of U.S. Presidents Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Nixon. Public domain.
September 4, 1931

The Curious Origin of the “Seven Presidents” of Monmouth County

Editor’s note: This research project owes much to three people who deserve acknowledgement:   Janice Grace, Long Branch historian, Library Associate and History Room Manager of the Long Branch Free Public Library; Robert Waitt, president, Historical Society of Ocean Grove; and Randall
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Photo of Oscar Hammerstein mansion. Creator, date of creation, publisher and date of publication unknown. Image courtesy Ralph Bitter and Middletown Township Historical Society, used with permission.
March 23, 1933

Gangster Al Lillien’s Unsolved Murder in Middletown Ends his Criminal Organization

On March 23, 1933, Alexander (Al) Lillien Jr. (born February 28, 1897), a "master liquor-runner,” was found murdered in his Middletown mansion.  Lillien, 36, along with his brother William, controlled a bootlegging gang that extended from Montreal down to Virginia,
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