Cape May Point

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    Post office at the Point

    Text by | Published February 1st, 2013 in Cape May Magazine • Cape May Point

    Cape May Point rejoices in being quirky, quaint – but authentic– and off the beaten path.

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    The Grey Ghost

    Text by | Published November 1st, 2011 in Cape May Magazine • Cape May Point • Restoration and Preservation

    It is a summer place. But as the days shorten, the shadows lengthen and waters turn steely, the Grey Ghost in all of her high Victorian Gothic elegance takes hold of the landscape and reigns over land’s end where the ocean and bay meet. Lofty dunes thrown up by winds and storms protect the Grey [...]

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    The Gingerbread Church

    Text by | Published December 15th, 2010 in Cape May Magazine • Cape May Point

    In this season of holiday gingerbread houses, let us open the pages of a storybook about a gingerbread church.

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    Working at the Top: Cape May’s Lighthouse Keepers

    Text by | Published September 1st, 2009 in Cape May Point • Historic Figures

    The post of lighthouse keeper entailed a unique lifestyle for the keeper and his family. The duties were often lonely and tedious and could be downright dangerous when storms buffeted the lantern. It was especially perilous if weather forced the keeper to climb from the watch room to the lantern landing and remove snow and ice from the 16 windows 12 stories up.

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    Hot Dogs & Soda for Cape May Point

    Text by | Published April 1st, 2009 in Cape May Point • Environmental

    Hot dogs, sodas and bicycles are coming to Cape May Point State Park this summer. For the first time in its 38 year history, Cape May Point State Park is advertising for vendors – one for a mobile food concession and another for bicycle rental.

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    Love at the Lighthouse

    Text by | Published February 1st, 2009 in Cape May Point • Weddings

    The Cape May Lighthouse has become a favored destination for many engagements and weddings. Is the Lighthouse right for your special day?

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    Monarch Butterflies in Cape May

    Text by | Published November 1st, 2004 in Birding and Wildlife • Cape May Point

    Consider the Monarch Butterfly. It begins life as a caterpillar living underneath the leaves of the milkweed plant for a couple of weeks. Then, it forms a letter J and hangs out under a sheltered area forming a big green glob for about 10 days, after which, it emerges as a breathtakingly beautiful orange and [...]

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    To dephrag or not dephrag?

    Text by | Published September 1st, 2004 in Cape May Point • Environmental

    That is the question currently being posed by residents of Cape May Point as well as the New Jersey Environmental Federation, the City of Cape May, and the New Jersey Audubon Society (NJAS) as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers moves forward with a plan to spray the glyphosate-based herbicide Rodeo on 57 acres of [...]

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

    Text by | 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 [...]

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    Cape May Point Celebrates 125 Years

    Text by | Published September 1st, 2003 in Cape May Point

    The tiny borough of Cape May Point marked its 125th anniversary by inviting all the year-round residents of Cape May Point – 250 in all – to a sit-down dinner.

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    Cape May Point: Naturally for the Birds

    Text by | Published March 1st, 2002 in Birding and Wildlife • Cape May Point

    If you asked ten people “What and where is Cape May Point?” you’d probably hear ten completely different answers. For instance: “It’s a little piece of heaven.” “The lighthouse is there.” “That’s where the birds migrate.” “They have a big lake there, don’t they?” “We have a very special place. People who live here and [...]

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    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 quite dawned. As the first keepers trimmed her sperm whale oil lamps and polished [...]

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    Need a Bunker? This One’s Ready to Go!

    Text by | Published September 1st, 2001 in Cape May Point • World War II

    So how much do you know about the old bunker and its vitally important function during the darkest days of World War Two?

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    St. Mary’s by the Sea

    Text by | Published September 1st, 2000 in Cape May Point

    A woman sits in a chair on the covered porch, taking in the salty sea breeze as I approach. Soon I am introduced in the retreat’s lobby to Sister Ann Raymond, director of St. Mary’s-by-the-Sea.   A piano rests near a statue of Saint Joseph, the carpenter. The main sitting room, a library with a variety [...]

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    Cape May Light

    Text by | Published May 1st, 1999 in Cape May Point

    This could be the literal high point of your visit to Cape May. A bit off to the west, in the contentedly quiet town of Cape May Point, a sentinel stands, one of those poetic symbols of hope, perched on the edge of the land, shining. The light at the top of the Cape May [...]