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Art Exhibits at the Mad Batter

Cape May may be small but it is rich in culture. We are a town of under 5,000 people with three theaters – Cape May Stage, East Lynne Theater and a cabaret – The Henry Sawyer Room at the Chalfonte Hotel. We have a diversity of music offerings to satisfy anyone’s taste from classical to… Read more »

The Virginia Hotel has been reinvigorated

Yes, Virginia! Stepping into the lobby of the completely reinvigorated Virginia Hotel on Jackson Street is like walking into an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. Bold reds decorate the Living Room and the bar. Overhead, crystal globe chandeliers mimic delicate fireworks setting the mood in the hotel’s main corridor and the entrance to the Ebbitt Room… Read more »

A day of weddings in Cape May

Oy. I’m spending the weekend following the Wedding Planner around Cape May. Note that I said “The Wedding Planner” because Cape May really only has one true wedding planner and that’s Catherine Walton. Ms Walton does the traditional Jennifer Lopez movie kind of planning right down to the last detail. Many of the larger reception… Read more »

Spring has sprung!

April showers and May flowers. That’s what Cape May’s all about in the spring. We even have a festival to honor it called, appropriately enough, Cape May’s Spring Festival (April 22-May 1). Some of us who go back a ways remember when it was called The Tulip Festival – so you get the picture. We’re… Read more »

Cape May’s Spring Tourists

It’s the very merry month of May. And you know what that means… No, not Maypole dancing – Birding. Two of birding’s biggest events occur in the month of May here in Cape May. The World Series of Birding is May 14th and Cape May Spring Weekend is May 20-22. The World Series of Birding… Read more »