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  1. Holidays with the Coast Guard

    Text by Susan Tischler | Published December 1st, 2004 in Coast Guard • The Holidays

    On any given holiday, the Coast Guard Training Station in Cape May has about 800 recruits who would rather be home. In the spirit of giving, many residents from the Cape May area volunteer to host recruits for a traditional holiday dinner. [...]

  2. Not home, but as close as can be…for now

    Text by Jennifer Brownstone Kopp | Published November 1st, 2001 in Coast Guard

    Thurm Corson had to hold back tears when he met Cheyenne. It had been a while since he’d seen any dog, let alone his own at home in Maine and the simple wag of the Labrador’s tail and the slurp of her tongue on his smoothly-shaven face brought forth all the bittersweet emotions of the [...]

  3. 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 [...]

  4. From rum to subs: The Coast Guard in Cape May

    Text by Cindy J. Kluger | Published November 1st, 2000 in Cape May • Coast Guard

    It was the 1920s.
    Roaring, people called them. Crazy. The “bees knees.” And the United States was in deep conflict. The Eighteenth Amendment had just been passed — prohibiting the manufacture, sales and transportation of all alcohol.
    This new law was to counteract what some considered a “decline of morality.” Young people were bobbing hair and hem [...]