Down the Shore Archive

On Tuesday, a greenhead fly bit my shin. This is a common hazard of spending time on the beach. The Tabanus nigrovittatus lives ...

Ocean Grove, N.J. labels itself as “a blessed place to play.” They lock the gates between itself and neighboring Asbury Park ...

My friend and sometimes editor Jack Wright has called this “the ugliest Cape May sweatshirt ever made.” He hated it so much t ...

It’s only March, but things are looking sunny at the Jersey Shore – at least when it comes summer rentals. Maybe it ...

On Saturday morning, I loaded up my mom’s Subaru Baja with cans of Pringles, bottles of Gatorade and four sleepy runners and drove ...

Since I ran first in the ...

Attorney Jim Grimley came up with the idea for Cape to Gate because of work – sort of. “I was in Avalon in February fi ...

On Saturday, 30 teams of runners will relay their way from Cape May, N.J. to Margate, N.J. as part of the 44-mile Cape to Gate Relay. ...

I started really writing about the shore in 2007 while writing the first edition of The Jersey Shore: Atlantic City to Cape May. ...