High Tide

The 4th Annual Scarecrow Contest sponsored by the Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts & Humanities (MAC) is underway, and it’s time to rally friends, family, schoolmates and colleagues to visit the Physick Estate, 1048 Washington Street, and vote for your favorite goulish crow whose creators are competing for prizes, with an overall prize of $200… Read more »

The city’s first Dragon Boat Fest, sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce of Greater Cape May,  had a remarkably beautiful, crisp fall day and many, many participants to make it a great success. Boaters raced from noon to 5 p.m. at Cape May Harbor raising money for their charitable causes. Thirty-three teams, made up of… Read more »

Couples waltzed their way ‘round the dance floor during the Vintage Dance Weekend on Saturday, Oct. 6 and Sunday, Oct. 7. Vintage Dance instructor Martha Griffith taught dance students to  kick-up their heels as they did in Cape May’s Victorian heyday.  Later Saturday evening students tested their new steps at a costumed Vintage Ball with… Read more »

Drum roll please – Doris Wilcox of Flemington, NJ is the big winner of Cape May Magazine’s Lima Ben Counting Contest. Doris eyeballed the Lima beans at Saturday’s West Cape May Lima Bean Festival held at Wilbraham Park. Her guess was 2,681. The actual count? 2,743. Doris wins a one year subscription to Cape May… Read more »

 The lowly legume gets the attention it so deserves once a year at the West Cape May Lima Bean Festival. Organizers could not have had better weather and people came by the throngs to Wilbraham Park to buy Lima Bean soup, t-shirts, potter and ear rings and so much more. Originally organized to celebrate the… Read more »