Antiquing Around Town
Defining Art Deco
Consider the Chrysler building in New York with its towering, sleek stepped geometric design. Or a Marquise- cut diamond ring, or cobalt blue mirrored glass topped tables. Then you understand what defines Art Deco. Soon after World War I ended, an explosion of decadent living and accelerated innovation collided. Shaking […]
Sound Waves
Brian Lee
The question of “why?” Humans do what we do can only bring us so far. Eventually, graveling over reason ceases to serve us—we must accept that we are the way we are by nature, nurture, or cosmic chance. For many, the intrinsic motivation to express oneself through creative outlets is […]
Preserved Property
112 Yorke Avenue
Nestled on a side street east of Broadway sits 112 Yorke Avenue, a three-story Victorian charmer built when West Cape May was mostly farmland, and peopled with service workers and Mayflower descendants. There may be less farmland and fewer Mayflower descendants these days, but the home remains a preserved piece […]
Design in Bloom
The Grass is Always Greener
Did you know that lawn is the largest crop in America? It is estimated that turf grass covers approximately 1.6% of the surface area of the entire country—more than 62,500 square miles. That is an area larger than Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Connecticut combined! What’s disturbing is that we spend […]
Antiquing Around Town
Union League of Philadelphia and Abraham Lincoln
With the presidential election in the not-too-distant future, it behooves me to mention one of our greatest presidents—Abraham Lincoln. His leadership during the Civil War and issuing the Emancipation Proclamation giving enslaved people in the United States their freedom, as well as preserving the Union was monumental. Decades ago, I […]
Interior Motives
The Design Team Behind Cape Collection
Once upon a time, wife and husband Kelly Lavorgna and Andrew Bares had careers on Wall Street. As the current owners of Evan James Interiors, a design team that’s appeared on HGTV’s Flea Market Flip, those finance days—of which they spent nearly a collective five decades—are long behind them. These […]
Featured Shop
Vagabond Boutique Cape May
Washington Street Mall has long been home to some of the most eclectic, swoon-worthy boutiques in the area. From specialty stores like The Cheese Shop and Bath Time to beloved gift shops and whimsical candy stores, to jewelry, to shoes, to clothing, Washington Street Mall is a dream shopping destination […]
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Fueling Local Futures
Atlantic Cape Community College’s local campus is an unsung resource for people looking to get started and get ahead, in life and work
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Sister Cities: The Cape May of Scandinavia
The wind is blowing, birds are flying, and with the lighthouse at your back, you can see a ridge of land across the water. That water is the Baltic Sea, and the land is Denmark, not the Delaware Bay or the beach towns of Delaware. The lighthouse is on the […]
Be Our Guest
Sandpiper Beach Club
For an easy-breezy resort stay, it’s hard to beat the Sandpiper Beach Club, at Beach Avenue and Grant Street in Cape May. The condominium hotel is home to 51 individually owned residences that double as hotel suites. As a result, guests can expect all the comforts of home—not just beautifully […]
Nature
Sam the MothMan of Cape May
In summer and fall it’s not uncommon to come to work and find a large mesh cage set up in the middle of the building, with one or more specimens of some special creature crawling around inside. Most of the time these are moths, and sometimes they’re something entirely different, […]
Field Trip
Reed’s Organic Farm
For more than a century, members of the Reed family worked a modest farm in rural Atlantic County. In the mid-2010s, the last generation of farmers passed on, and the next generation declined to follow in their footsteps. The 80-acre tract in Egg Harbor Township might have been sold for […]
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James Bond and the Cape May Geographic Society
Chances are that one Cape May group you may not know about is the Cape May Geographic Society, a group that had an intense interest in the natural history of Cape May and in sharing history with year-round and summer residents.
Brit's Eye View
North Wildwood and Stone Harbor Point
The movement of sand down the shoreline, known as longshore drift, creates an ever-changing landscape at Stone Harbor Point and the North Wildwood inlet. Every year both these places get closer; perhaps they will meet one day! While the steady southward movement of sand is obvious, one big storm could […]
Wish You Were Here
Mail for the Millers
Correspondence via postcards sent to Sandy and Orville Miller from different members of their family, including her brother Bob and sister-in-law Marta, were kept safe by Sandy in her comprehensive collection of historic Cape May postcards. Coincidentally, the first three cards came annually in the month of August, all featured […]
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Ministering Kindness
Father Cesar Serrano is a spiritual leader for the local Latino population
Grape & Grain
Behr Brewing: Beer, Down Home Style
The ever-growing craft beer industry is the result of many happy incidents, coincidences, and luck. One of those incidents was the signing of HR 1337 in 1977 by then-President Jimmy Carter which legalized homebrewing in the United States. I mention this not to start a history lesson but to note […]
Bartender's Best
Bee’s Knees
The Bees Knees, a new bee-themed bar at the Marquis de Lafayette, takes inspiration from a 1920s speakeasy, but it doesn’t make itself hard to find. A neon sign in the entrance proudly pronounces it as Cape May’s “worst” kept secret. The cocktail menu includes Prohibition-era nods such as Giggle […]
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Surfing the Air Waves in Cape May
Turn on, tune in, and catch the waves from anywhere in the world
Dining Out
Andrea Trattoria Italiana
Over the nearly 10 years that I’ve been reviewing restaurants for this magazine, there have been some absolutely exquisite meals and equally exquisite service and ambiance. I’m happy to report that my recent visit to Andrea Trattoria Italiana on Bank Street was another such experience. While we stood outside with […]