Category: This is Cape May

79th Annual Coronation of Queen Maysea

Queen Maysea LXXVIII (that’s 78 for those of you who don’t speak Roman numerals), Julia Marie Hinker, passed her crown along to this year’s queen, Kamryn Brooke Spicer, in a ceremony held at Cape May Elementary on August 3rd at 7:00 p.m. A special crowning ceremony was also held for Miss Jerry, who presided over… Read more »

Garden Tour: Peter Shields Inn

The Peter Shields Inn, located at 1301 Beach Avenue, is a 1907 Georgian revival mansion originally built as a summer home for a Philadelphia family (lucky them!). Operating today as a boutique hotel and restaurant, the Peter Shields Inn sits back from the street across a bright green lawn, its columns flanked by striking black-and-white… Read more »

Add perennials for years of bloom!

Whether you garden in a pot or a plot, it is time to take notice and give the plants one last feeding, if you do not already have time-release fertilizer on the plants. Clip or deadhead blooming plants so they will continue to flower. Trim back vegetables if they need it and plant some fall… Read more »

Sole Searching

These flat denizens of the deep do have one major similarity besides both eyes on one side of the head and that is that they all can be cooked interchangeably in recipes.

Cape May’s 33rd Annual Independence Day Parade

Celebrating America’s 235th birthday, the City of Cape May held its annual Independence Day Parade on Saturday, July 2nd at 1pm along Beach Drive. In its 33rd year, the parade offered crowd-pleasing fun from bands, service groups, antique cars, cyclists and more. [nggallery id=91]

Orr at the Shore Meets Fox in Cape May

  This week’s edition of Orr at the Shore brought Channel 3’s Kathy Orr to the island to interview Cape May Magazine’s very own Karen Fox, about her new book,  The Chalfonte: The heroes, heartaches, legends, loved affairs and unforgettable characters behind the hotel that became an American treasure.