BASS RIVER TOWNSHIP, N.J. HISTORY . . . etc.

Jumbo shrimp is a familiar oxymoron, today. I wonder if such was the case back in the early 1900's. I got to thinking about it while rea...

Keeping with the medical theme of last Monday's Blog entry, I came across the following brief news item in the July 11, 1940 edition of ...

Sometimes, when reading old newspapers and journals, I come upon a humorous item. Such was the case when I was reading an 1879 edition of Th...

School attendance was considered very important in "old time" New Gretna. Periodically, those with perfect attendance were recogni...

While flipping T.V. channels the other day, somehow I ended up briefly watching a spelling bee. As I watched student after student correctly...

Last Wednesday I posted a photo and caption of the Columbia anchored by the Bass River bridge in New Gretna (See photo and caption below as ...

A few days ago I received a copy of the October, 2010 edition of the Ocean County Historical Society's newsletter "The Society Scro...