A collection of vintage holiday postcards from the early 1900s.
Year: 2001

Holiday Traditions in Cape May
As Americans are pulling together, the idea of tradition is becoming important once again.
Your Holiday Stories
CapeMay.com readers share their favorite holiday memories.
Holiday Craft Ideas
Stick Stars This is a fun and easy project that can be enjoyed by the whole family. The first step is to go out and collect sticks. They are do not have to be from the same tree. The size will be up to you as to how large you want your stars. I chose… Read more »
Holiday Recipes
PRIME RIB OF BEEF Perhaps the most impressive and traditional of all Christmas meals is the Prime Rib of Beef. It may also be the most difficult to get just right — beautifully dark and crusty on the outside, pink and juicy on the in. Letting the meat rest inside the oven after roasting is… Read more »

Postcards from Cape May
CapeMay.com’s first in a series of “Postcards from Cape May” is from the classic collection of Don and Pat Pocher, to whom we are indeed grateful. A wider selection has been published in their book, Cape May in Vintage Postcards, one of Arcadia Publishing’s “Images of America” series. The accompanying descriptive text is mostly from that book.

Not home, but as close as can be…for now
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… Read more »

Sentinel of the Jersey Cape: an excerpt from the Story of the Cape May Lighthouse
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… Read more »

Who’s Been Here? The Famous Visitors of Cape May
What do Ulysses S. Grant, Henry Ford and Norman Rockwell have in common? At one point in their famous lives, they all came to Cape May.

Need a Bunker? This One’s Ready to Go!
So how much do you know about the old bunker and its vitally important function during the darkest days of World War Two?