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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. A Day at the Historic Cold Spring Village

    Text by Susan Tischler | Published August 1st, 2004 in Cape May County • Museums

    If you watched the recently aired PBS reality show Colonial House, you learned what life was like for American colonists in the “New World” in 1628. It occurred to our staff at CapeMay.com that we too could see first hand what life was like in the 1800s Cape May County by just taking a visit to Historic Cold Spring Village (HCSV).

  3. 199 Steps to the Stars: Climbing the Cape May Lighthouse…again

    Text by Susan Tischler | Published November 1st, 2003 in Cape May Point • History • Museums • Tours

    And how do I climb thee? Let me count the ways…
    Believe it or not, I found there’s more than one way to approach the Cape May
    Lighthouse, which by the way, celebrated its 145th birthday on Halloween.
    Climbing the Cape May Lighthouse is one of our quintessential tourist experiences and people have been indulging in the climb [...]

  4. Confronting the Past: A Trip to the Historic Cold Spring Village

    Text by Susan Tischler | Published July 1st, 2003 in Cape May County • History • Museums

    What do you do with your family on weekends?
    Civil War re-enactors take their families– and the rest of us — back in time.
    Historic Cold Spring Village (HCSV) recently played host to the Confederate re-enactors of Company E, the 17th Virginia Volunteer Infantry and Battery A., 1st North Carolina Artillery.
    When I went to see what it [...]

  5. Going Back in Time: Historic Cold Spring Village

    Text by Susan Tischler | Published July 1st, 2003 in Cape May County • Museums

    What do you do with your family on weekends? Civil War re-enactors take their families– and the rest of us — back in time.

  6. Giving the Past a Future: Naval Air Wildwood

    Text by CapeMay.com | Published March 1st, 2002 in Cape May County • Museums • Restoration • World War II

    A step through the doors of Hangar #1 is a step back in time. Music from the 1940s drifts in the background, and the smell of engine grease fills the air. Aircraft mechanics banter with each other as they tend to a flock of planes and helicopters left behind by generations of innovation. A resident cat, Kittyhawk, laps cream as she waits to fulfill her duty of chasing birds.

  7. The Dollhouse Museum at the Goodman House

    Text by Jenn Heinold | Published July 1st, 2000 in Museums

    As an intern at CapeMay.com, one of my many jobs is reading e-mails that you, our faithful readership, send to CapeMay.com. Many times, visitors recount their fondest memories of Cape May. They spout statistics and ask intriguing questions, most of which send me running to our local history buffs. Throughout the e-mails one word seems [...]