High Tide

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Mermaid’s Tears

Some of the best shorelines to find mermaid tears – sea glass – are right here in Cape May. Over the years, the salt water, the tides, washing over rocks and sand, the pounding forces of the ocean have broken and worn down the shards to unique, one-of-a-kind shapes and sizes.

Collard Greens

Persnickety’s Ultimate Fried Chicken

Fast food has taken away our desire to cook and our ability to distinguish good food from mediocre food. Proof was established when Zagat’s named KFC as America’s best fried chicken. Have our standards of taste fallen that far? It is time to dust off our skillets put down the McNuggets and get back to the kitchen. Try recipes for Fried Chicken, Collard Greens, and Buttermilk Biscuits

Rum Runners Ball – the Bees Knees

The Rum Runners Ball sponsored by the Cape May County Historical Society was held in the Ballroom of Congress Hall Saturday, Feb. 12. The event was peppered with Roaring 20s-style gentlemen in gangster attire as well as those the more formal tuxedo. Ladies were decked out in flapper dresses, complete with beads and hair plumes.… Read more »