Feature articles that have appeared in Cape May Magazine
What Sharon Yarwasky started doing to pass the time during long car rides is now her job. “I started knitting in 2017,” she told us. “I am always multitasking. I hated just sitting in the car when we would go on trips.” Sharon was a fifth-grade teacher at Lower Township […]
Cape May’s branch of the county’s library system restores history and looks towards prosperity
Atlantic Cape Community College’s local campus is an unsung resource for people looking to get started and get ahead, in life and work
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 […]
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.
Father Cesar Serrano is a spiritual leader for the local Latino population
Turn on, tune in, and catch the waves from anywhere in the world
Nature dictates the menu at Beach Plum Farm, in a farm-to-table dinner series that changes with the harvest
Cape May Kiwanis Club has spent 100 years helping local children and families
Using a metal detector can be a great pastime—and is bound to pique many a passerby’s interest. My granddaughter and I took my cheapo metal detector to the beach, unearthing beer bottle caps and tinfoil. An elderly gentleman studying us asked what type of treasures we had discovered in the […]
Roy Steinberg looks back at 15 years with Cape May Stage during its 35-year anniversary
Frank Furness’s 1876 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts building
and the 1879 Emlen Physick Estate
The years following World War II were not good to Cape May. War industries and military bases were dismantled, resulting in a decrease in the number of year-round jobs. As the 1960s dawned, many stores had gone out of business, hard-to-maintain summer Victorian cottages were in disrepair and no longer […]
This is about a company that began with an ambition to improve the science of studying bird migratory habits and about a couple of people who worked it all out at a kitchen table. It’s about how it grew into a worldwide supplier of the tiniest little devices that follow […]