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An intern’s experience with the Cape May Whale Watch and Research Center
Feature articles that have appeared in Cape May Magazine

An intern’s experience with the Cape May Whale Watch and Research Center

South of the Cape May canal, tucked along the banks of Delaware Bay, lies an unassuming hamlet with a deep history. Many remain unaware of the significance of this quiet bayside haven, a town with a rich history: Town Bank, New Jersey, was Cape May before Cape May was Cape […]

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 […]