Visitors and residents can choose and purchase Cape May MAC (Museums+Arts+Culture) tours with even greater ease thanks to the creation of a new mobile app. The app, self-titled “Cape May MAC,” will allow users to view a daily calendar of tours and events in an easily accessible format and to…

by Evelyn Maguire The Victorian Era was an age renowned for its industrialization, its literature, and burgeoning science — but, perhaps most importantly, it was also known as the Golden Age of Cocktails. …

Red Cross looking for additional families to host Coast Guard recruits CAPE MAY, NJ — The American Red Cross is accepting applications from people in the Cape May area who wish to become a host family for Operation Fireside. Operation Fireside provides recruits from the Coast Guard Training Center in…

by Evelyn Maguire From leeching to sprinkling arsenic in beauty powder to displaying celery as a sign of wealth, Victorian-era traditions are nothing if not odd (at least to the modern person). So Halloween-time for the Victorians, as you might expect, was a holiday rife with its own strange practices…

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Dr. Physick’s Dog Days of Summer features true tales of the good doctor and his dogs. The Cape May MAC team is excited to announce our very first in-house children’s book! An original picture book featuring Cape May historic figure Dr. Emlen Physick and his dogs, titled “Dr. Physick’s Dog…

A recap of our discussion of Oscar Wilde’s only novel This past Saturday was our very last book club meeting for the first ever Cape May MAC Book Club! Over the course of this summer, we read six books from the Victorian era. From a wartime memoir to a hilarious…

A recap of our book club discussion! Our second-to-last book Cape May MAC Book Club book, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) by Jerome K. Jerome, was by far our funniest selection. A fair portion of our discussion was dedicated simply to recounting our favorite…

A recap of our discussion of Elizabeth Gaskell’s 1853 novel Another two weeks, another lesser-known Victorian-era read crossed off the summer book club list! So far, we’ve read a lesser-known Brontë classic, the memoir of a Crimean war nurse, and a gothic vampire novella that predated Dracula. With our fourth…