The Cape May Antique Center, located on Rt. 109, on the approach to Cape May after the big bridge, has plenty of parking on a crushed seashell lot. ANTIQUES and COLLECTIBLES, in three-foot- high letters, appear on the front and side of the battleship-gray building, itself an antique at over […]
Appetizers are my favorite part of a meal. I think it’s because I often find them to be better than the main event. Chefs seem to put some of their most creative ideas on small plates. Maybe that’s because the combination of flavors is often so complicated, we wouldn’t really […]
For a place in close proximity to and nearly completely surrounded by water, there is a paucity of marine diversity on local menus. Scallops, oysters, crab, shrimp, and salmon get enough representation on local tables, but there really are plenty more fish in the sea. What I enjoy about trying […]
Winter is over. Time for New Jersey Bluebird Society monitors to begin checking bluebird nesting boxes installed in fields and backyards throughout the state.
Few people today have heard about Fishing Trains, which carried anglers to places for good fishing across the country.
If you never thought that strolling Cape May’s gaslit streets or walking along our promenade would afford you the chance to view the rings of Saturn or study the details of a nebula thousands of light years from Earth, then you’ve never encountered our island’s street corner astronomer, Kevin Beare. […]
On a chilly Friday in February, my dining companion Anne Marie joined me at Grana BYOB, at the corner of Broadway and West Perry in Cape May, the location formerly operating as Godmother’s Restaurant. As always, we’d already perused the menu, enthusiastic about tasting the dishes everyone’s been talking about—and […]
This recipe appeared in Something Fishy Going On in our Spring 2023 issue.
This recipe appeared in Something Fishy Going On in our Spring 2023 issue.
This recipe appeared in Something Fishy Going On in our Spring 2023 issue.
This recipe appeared in Something Fishy Going On in our Spring 2023 issue.
This recipe appeared in Something Fishy Going On in our Spring 2023 issue.
This year, it’s party time—times three—for the Bay Atlantic Symphony. In 2023, the ensemble observes 40 years of music, 25 years with conductor Jed Gaylin, and 20 years as a partner of Cape May MAC.
I find it delightful that men of the Cape May and Philadelphia Physick family were doctors, including Cape May’s Victorian gentleman, Dr. Emlen Physick, Jr., whose legacy is the 1879 Emlen Physick Estate in Cape May. It’s like meeting or knowing an artist named Art. Or a chef named Cook. […]
Prior to opening Cape May Snaps, Brian Dunleavy was thinking about the future. Specifically, his own. Dunleavy, who had had a career in cable television, was three years retired and thinking about starting a business while on a three-month surfing trip to Brazil. Originally, he thought about going into business […]
Cape May is all about linking past to present, with appreciation for both. The 1881 Queen Victoria Inn embodies that connection. The award-winning bed-and-breakfast, at the corner of Ocean Street and Columbia Avenue, blends old-style comfort with latter-day convenience in an authentic 19th-century setting. No wonder so many guests become […]
It takes a natural musician to create sound that reflects the originality of their character. Violinist Daisy Castro uses music as a channel to transmit her individuality. Her journey began early, at age six, and she was quickly recognized as a musical prodigy. Daisy’s introduction to violin was via the […]
I crave spring for so many reasons, but at the top of my list is the magical and mysterious denizen of the Cape May Peninsula, the American Woodcock.
You are walking down the street and a blur flashes past. What was that? That’s a fast insect. Then you come to your senses.
Among the ornate architecture of Cape May is a nondescript cinder block building tucked into a small side street, with green painted letters on the front of the building identifying it as the VFW Post 386.
How Bob Smeltzer Grew the Iconic Smeltzer & Sons From a Chicken Coop
She wore her yellow sun-bonnet,She wore her greenest gown;She turned to the south windAnd curtsied up and down.She turned to the sunlightAnd shook her yellow head,And whispered to her neighbor:“Winter is dead.” A. A. Milne I fell in love with daffodils when I first started to come to Cape May […]
The life of Albert C. Barnes was once described as “an American dream and a Greek tragedy.” But not necessarily in that order. Born in 1872, Barnes was the gifted son of a destitute Civil War veteran. After a childhood in the Philadelphia slums, he became a chemist, and built […]
Now that the hustle and bustle—and stress and overwhelm—of the holiday season is behind us, we can get to the really important stuff: relaxation. Ah, Calgon, take us away. Calgon, or at least their famous bubble bath commercials from the 70s and 80s, had the right idea. Amid our chaotic […]