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  1. The Best of Cape May 2009

    Text by CapeMay.com | Published September 1st, 2009 in B&Bs • Beaches • Best of Cape May • Birding and Wildlife • Guest Houses • Hotels • Innkeeping • Leisure • Museums • Outdoors/Water • Restaurants • Tours

    Cyberspace drum roll please as we announce the 2009 winners of the 5th Annual Best of Cape May survey. Every year, winners of the Best of Cape May are determined by online voting. There were 58 categories and awards will be presented to 25 of the winners – many won awards in multiple categories. Voters [...]

  2. Jackson’s Club House: A little controversy at Columbia and Stockton

    Text by Bill Godfrey | Published March 1st, 2009 in B&Bs • Cape Island • Cape May • Innkeeping

    The gambling, prostitution, heavy drinking and carousing male visitors the clubhouse hosted were just the sort of activities Cape May was hoping to attract during the Victorian era. Or not.

  3. To Keep an Inn

    Text by Tom Carroll | Published March 1st, 2009 in B&Bs • Cape May • Innkeeper Profiles • Innkeeping

    Thinking of becoming an innkeeper? Learn about the history of Bed & Breakfast inns and get some tips from innkeepers.

  4. Love Among the Innkeepers

    Text by Susan Tischler | Published February 1st, 2005 in Cape May • Characters • Innkeeper Profiles • Innkeeping • People • The Holidays

    If you come to Cape May for Valentine’s Day, chances are you’ll be staying at a Bed & Breakfast or a Guest House because it’s just about THE most romantic thing you can do. Imagine a cold blustery night by the fireside, or in your suite surrounded by antiques and old world charm. But what [...]

  5. Renovating the Woodleigh House

    Text by Susan Tischler | Published January 1st, 2004 in Cape May • Innkeeper Profiles • Innkeeping • Restoration

    When it comes to buying an old house and renovating it, Joanne Tornambe has one guiding principle – “In life you have to be flexible.”

  6. Try It Before You Buy It: INN Deep Workshop 2003

    Text by Susan Tischler | Published February 1st, 2003 in B&Bs • Innkeeping

    Confess. Each time you spend a night in a Bed and Breakfast you think to yourself — hmmm, I could do this. I could run a B&B. This could be for me. Or could it?

  7. Recruit turned resident: Tom Carroll and the Mainstay Inn

    Text by Cindy J. Kluger | Published November 1st, 2000 in Coast Guard • Innkeeper Profiles • Innkeeping

    Tom Carroll has been a resident of Cape May for nearly 30 years, with 24 of those years spent as activity duty in the Coast Guard. Tom, in fact, comes from a Coast Guard family. His brother was a helicopter pilot and his father was Coast Guard auxilliary. He grew up on the water and [...]

  8. Three Innkeepers’ Stories…

    Text by Jennifer Brownstone Kopp | Published October 1st, 2000 in Cape May • Characters • Innkeeper Profiles • Innkeeping

    What if you had the nerve to follow your dream? Memories of sunny, sandy, carefree days stream back and suddenly you remember that wonderful couple who ran that lovely bed and breakfast you visited. Nice people, they were. And they looked so happy! Perhaps you could be, too.