Stories: History
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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A Message to the Future
Congress Hall History cape may
We didn’t always know about Congress Hall’s history. Its hard to imagine now; the walls are filled with old photos dating back to the 1840s. There are books with pages of comprehensive facts, colorful illustrations, and definitive dates that put...
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Cape Mayflowers
In the month of November, the walls of nearly every American elementary school are covered with construction paper turkeys, headdresses, and Puritan pilgrim hats. Second graders from California to New York don costumes made from grocery bags and wait anxiously...
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Presidential Vacations
Cape May History Congress Hall
To those who weathered the cold winter months this past year, summertime means one thing: vacation. From little tykes finishing their first year of school, to the President of the United States, everyone is looking forward to a well-deserved break...
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The Congress Hall March
cape may history congress hall
All the way back in 1882, John Philip Sousa wrote “The Congress Hall March”...
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