Books

  1. Ghosts of the Memucan Hughes House

    Text by | 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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    Cape May on Paper

    Text by | Published December 1st, 2008 in Books

    When you think Cape May what comes to mind? Diamonds? Victorian Sand Ladies? Piping Plovers? America’s original seaside resort has been dazzling new and veteran visitors alike with her charm, beauty and history; many to the point of bringing pen [...]

  3. Review: Cape May Court House: A Death in the Night

    Text by | 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 [...]

  4. Postcards from Cape May

    Text by | 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 [...]

  5. Sentinel of the Jersey Cape: an excerpt from the Story of the Cape May Lighthouse

    Text by | 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 [...]

  6. The Road Not Taken: An Excerpt from “The Summer City by the Sea”

    Text by | 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 [...]