
Stories: Cape May

Spread Joy & Follow the Sun
beach plum farm cape may video
Read about Beach Plum Farm's first Flower Flash, from first harvest to final installation touches. Inspired by the work of NYC-based designer Lewis Miller, our Flower Flash was a chance to spread joy around Cape May.
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A Day in the Life of Dave
Cape May gardening Congress Hall
" For a horticulturist, there are many places to work, but there aren’t too many gardens on the beach, and none like this. " People come up to me during the course of an afternoon with all sorts of questions....
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Happy Anniversary, Virginia
A Letter from Curtis Bashaw June 2, 2019 I have been checking guests in and out of hotel rooms for half of my life. It was 30 years ago, on June 2, 1989, that we opened The Virginia, beginning what...
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A Fowl Tradition
History Thanksgiving Cape May Ebbitt Room Food
In millions of households across America this Thanksgiving, a similar scene will play out. It may be some sort of modern rendition of Norman Rockwell’s Freedom From Want, with a family gathered around the dinner table, waiting for a matriarch...
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