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Feature articles that have appeared in Cape May Magazine
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The Rebirth of the Franklin Street School – Part II
Cape May’s branch of the county’s library system restores history and looks towards prosperity
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Fueling Local Futures
Atlantic Cape Community College’s local campus is an unsung resource for people looking to get started and get ahead, in life and work
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Sister Cities: The Cape May of Scandinavia
The wind is blowing, birds are flying, and with the lighthouse at your back, you can see a ridge of land across the water. That water is the Baltic Sea, and the land is Denmark, not the Delaware Bay or the beach towns of Delaware. The lighthouse is on the […]
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James Bond and the Cape May Geographic Society
Chances are that one Cape May group you may not know about is the Cape May Geographic Society, a group that had an intense interest in the natural history of Cape May and in sharing history with year-round and summer residents.
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Ministering Kindness
Father Cesar Serrano is a spiritual leader for the local Latino population
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Behr Brewing: Beer, Down Home Style
The ever-growing craft beer industry is the result of many happy incidents, coincidences, and luck. One of those incidents was the signing of HR 1337 in 1977 by then-President Jimmy Carter which legalized homebrewing in the United States. I mention this not to start a history lesson but to note […]
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Surfing the Air Waves in Cape May
Turn on, tune in, and catch the waves from anywhere in the world
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To Everything a Season
Nature dictates the menu at Beach Plum Farm, in a farm-to-table dinner series that changes with the harvest
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A Century of Service
Cape May Kiwanis Club has spent 100 years helping local children and families
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So You Want To Be A Metal Detectorist
Using a metal detector can be a great pastime—and is bound to pique many a passerby’s interest. My granddaughter and I took my cheapo metal detector to the beach, unearthing beer bottle caps and tinfoil. An elderly gentleman studying us asked what type of treasures we had discovered in the […]
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From the Director’s Chair
Roy Steinberg looks back at 15 years with Cape May Stage during its 35-year anniversary
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Breaking with Tradition, Inspired by Industry
Frank Furness’s 1876 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts building
and the 1879 Emlen Physick Estate
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The Little-Known Story of Victorian Towers
The years following World War II were not good to Cape May. War industries and military bases were dismantled, resulting in a decrease in the number of year-round jobs. As the 1960s dawned, many stores had gone out of business, hard-to-maintain summer Victorian cottages were in disrepair and no longer […]
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Mad Scientists and Wandering Eagles
This is about a company that began with an ambition to improve the science of studying bird migratory habits and about a couple of people who worked it all out at a kitchen table. It’s about how it grew into a worldwide supplier of the tiniest little devices that follow […]