The program on Thursday, October 26th at the Stephen Crane House in Asbury Park will be dedicated to Tom Chesek, the former curator of the Crane House and organizer of all the programs there, who died suddenly earlier this year. The evening will include readings of "The Tell-Tale Heart" (1843), "Annabel Lee" (1849), Poe's most […]
The Asbury Park & Ocean Grove Historical Societies present their annual NYC Holiday Tour! View spectacular vistas of the NYC skyline from the highest point in the city. Enjoy the SkyPod elevator as it whisks you 102 stories in 47 seconds while viewing the transformation of NYC from unsettled lands to today's forest of skyscrapers. […]
The Stephen Crane House will be among 52 historical sites featured during the Weekend in Old Monmouth. The House, headquarters of the Asbury Park Historical Society, is the first stop […]
During the pre-Civil Rights era, Victor Green published “The Green Book” as a guidebook for African American travelers of places where they would be welcome. Asbury Park and Neptune were popular destinations. Architectural historian Jenny Shaffer, who is part of a team or researchers working on a public website devoted to the study of sites […]
The Asbury Park Historical Society presents A Crane House Garden of Verses, an evening celebrating poetry, essays and writers who articulate the feelings we cannot quite put into words. The evening will cover the works of many renowned favorites, including the venue’s eponymous Stephen Crane himself, Emily Dickinson, Roman poets Ovid and Catullus, Elizabethan poets, […]
In honor of Asbury artist Ray Sternesky who passed away March 2, 2021. Ray donated both his artwork and, with his beloved wife Dolly, time to The Asbury Park Historical Society The Asbury Park Historical Society invites artists and craftspeople to showcase their work on the Asbury Park Boardwalk August 18, 2024 Register for the […]
