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Ghosts of the Memucan Hughes House
Text by Craig McManus | Published October 1st, 2009 in Books • Cape May • Ghosts and Spirits
Ghost hunter and psychic Craig McManus shares an excerpt from his newest book, “400 Years of the Ghosts of Cape May”
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Review: Cape May Court House: A Death in the Night
Text by Susan Tischler | Published November 1st, 2002 in Books
If one lives down here, one is prepared to not like anything written by outsiders about our little world. Why, you landlubbers may ask? Because they never get it right, that’s why. It’s like Hollywood trying to make a movie about the working class. The world of the working stiff is either over-romanticized or downright insulting. Lawrence Schiller does not make that mistake in his recently published book, “Cape May Court House – A Death In The Night.”
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Postcards from Cape May
Text by CapeMay.com | Published November 1st, 2001 in Books • Cape May • History Books • In Pictures
CapeMay.com’s first in a series of “Postcards from Cape May” is from the classic collection of Don and Pat Pocher, to whom we are indeed grateful. A wider selection has been published in their book, Cape May in Vintage Postcards, one of Arcadia Publishing’s “Images of America” series. The accompanying descriptive text is mostly from that book.
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Sentinel of the Jersey Cape: an excerpt from the Story of the Cape May Lighthouse
Text by John Bailey | Published November 1st, 2001 in Books • Cape May Point • History Books
Behold the Cape May Lighthouse.
She stands there so silently and aloof that we find it difficult to fathom her age and the epochs that have swirled about her base. At her birth (1859), the era of the steamship had not quite dawned. As the first keepers trimmed her sperm whale oil lamps and polished her [...] -
The Road Not Taken: An Excerpt from “The Summer City by the Sea”
Text by CapeMay.com | Published August 1st, 2000 in Books • Cape May • History Books
A contemporary description of the 1878 pre-fire Cape May skyline, observed from the deck of a passing sailboat, spoke of the “flashing lines of festival lights connecting the continuous row of monstrous four-floored buildings, seeming to touch each other…”
These lights were anchored on each end by railroad properties, the Sea Breeze Excursion House on the western end of the city and the great Stockton on the east. Although both of these hotels survived the inferno, the “continuous row of monstrous buildings” between them was now reduced to ashes.