High Tide

The CapeMay.com blog

Food I love: Cheese

I am back. Sorry for the missing column last month. Things got a little backlogged while trying to get out the new Cape May Magazine column. (Shameless plug time.) If you want more recipes and culinary rambling, check out Cape May Magazine, where you can actually see what the dishes are supposed to look like.… Read more »

Meet the Innkeepers

Cape May is known across the country for its tastefully done and highly maintained bed & breakfast inns. CapeMay.com thought it would be insightful to get the answers to some basic questions from every innkeeper in town. The eight inns represented here are the first group to be interviewed. King’s Cottage,   9 Perry Street… Read more »

Starting a vineyard by the seaside

When March rolls around, I start watching for signs of spring. I keep my eye on No Frills Farm on Seashore Road to see when the new plantings will be available to buy. I run by Rea’s Farm at Stevens and Bayshore roads to see if they’re plowing up the fields yet. And I keep… Read more »

Cape May Stage presents Project Encore: Rebuilding the theater

Groucho Marx once said – “Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.” Well, at first glance, Cape May Stage’s ambitious renovation project makes the marriage of architectural restoration and the needs of a working theater look exactly like a couple of a really strange bedfellows. Phase One of Project Encore began on the circa… Read more »

A day in the life of Coast Guard Company Commanders

Did you know that Cape May is host to the only U.S. Coast Guard Recruit Training Center in the country? Most tourists coming through don’t even know the Coast Guard base is here, especially if their stay doesn’t take them to the intersection of Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania avenues where the big sign is. I live… Read more »