Red Bank Register from June 20th, 1923 Perhaps this is the birth of East Side Park? (See last paragraph of front page piece titled “Ten Houses Under Way.”

Red Bank Register from April 4, 1911 Eastside Park People Want to Cast Their Lot With Fair Haven.

Red Bank Register from November 30th 1892 First house to be built on the tract of land referred to as East Side Park (searching for Lincoln Avenue)

Red Bank Register from May 10th 1899 Earliest mention of Harrison Ave. Talks about building the road from River Rd (front street) to Ridge.

Digging the Red Bank Register Archive: http://mtpl.org/rbr/ via @briandonohue It’s like a hyperlocal twitter feed with old-school fonts.

Red Bank Register from March 6th 1895 Making Theodore F White’s East Side Park part of Red Bank.

Wendell Berry’s “The Peace of Wild Things.” How is it I didn’t know this poem until today? Wonderful. http://xrl.us/benafx

I fear the dissipation that traveling, going into society, even the best, the enjoyment of intellectual luxuries, imply. If Paris is much in your mind, if it is more and more to you, Concord is less and less, and yet it would be a wretched bargain to accept the proudest Paris in exchange for my…

Had no idea Robert Pinksy grew up in Long Branch. The poet laureate is speaking at Monmouth U this Thursday: http://xrl.us/bem54w

Buying seeds for garden at cost cutters in Middletown. Store is going out of biz.