VOLUME LIV, ISSUE 5
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HOLIDAY 2024
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Shown here, one of the highlights of the Cape May holiday season is Cape May MAC’s Christmas Candlelight House Tours, a walking tour on three evenings, Dec. 7, 14 and 21, in which more than a dozen inns, homes, hotels, churches and museums open their doors and welcome visitors. Hurry! Tickets sell out quickly! It’s a Cape May tradition!
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Shown here, Santa Claus pulls the switch as the guest of honor to light up the huge estate tree at the annual Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony at the Physick Estate. Don’t miss this year’s event from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 23.
Christmas arrives with great fanfare Christmas arrives in Victorian Cape May with great fanfare during Holiday Preview Weekend in Cape May, Nov. 22-24, presented by Cape May MAC (Museums+Arts+Culture). The weekend launches six weeks of tours, activities and events especially for the Christmas season. For tickets and more information CLICK HERE. It’s a yearly Cape May tradition and kicks off the holiday season! Santa Claus, himself,
flips the switch and illuminates the huge evergreen Christmas tree on the grounds of the historic 1879 Emlen Physick Estate, 1048 Washington St. during the annual Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony, Saturday, Nov. 23, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Everyone is welcome! Visitors of all ages are invited to this annual tradition outdoors on the grounds of the estate, a thrilling start to the holiday (CONTINUED ON PAGE 13)
Newly-imagined holiday tours Our Cape May MAC colleagues have worked steadily and creatively this year on developing new interpretations of holiday tours, and now the tours are ready! Take one of these newly-designed offerings this holiday and make your Cape May Christmas experience even more engaging this season. • All That Glitters: Victorians Ring In A New Century Step aboard the trolley for this 30-minute ride around Cape May and
parts of West Cape May and you will appreciate how the passage of a new year has always sparked traditions of renewal and revival. The setting: it’s the winter holiday season in the late Victorian age. You will be regaled with festive snippets about New Year celebrations, including superstitions to assure prosperity and good fortune in the new year. You’ll learn how Victorians would have spent the winter holidays, hearing then and now (CONTINUED ON PAGE 10) (CONTINUED ON PAGE 12)
Don’tCome miss the highlight of the Christmas to Cape May, season N.J. and enjoy in Victorian Cape May, America’s only National Ordcarolthe night air strolling Historiccrisp Landmark City! Stroll and and be merry er Ticket along gaslit streets and visit more than a s disers as you walk through the historic dozen homes, inns, B&Bs, churches and Today ! hotels seeing decorated forinside historic trict and lovely areinteriors welcomed the holiday. This self-guided walking tour, homes, and inns to centered in achurches, 3/4-square-milemuseums, area of the Historic District,beautifully is Cape May’s longest running Christmas tour andDon’t Cape see decorated interiors. May MAC’s largest annual fund-raiser. While trolley shuttles miss this highlight the will not be offered in 2024 as inof years past,holiday don’t worry.season Most properties are clustered within a 20-minute walk in the Historic in Cape May, the Christmas Candlelight District with some just a few minutes from each other! Included is Tours, the 1879 Emlen Physick Estate, Cape51st May’syear only by House presented this Victorian House Museum, decorated in authentic Victorian Cape May MAC (Museums+Arts+Culture.) style, as well as the Old-Fashioned Christmas Exhibit with its extensive collection of Dept. 56 Dickens Village beneath the A large selection of historic properties boughs of the gigantic Christmas tree in the Carriage House on open doors and welcome visitors to the Estatetheir grounds. share theSaturdays, warmth Dec. and7,hospitality of the 14, & 21 PM season during5:30-8:30 these popular, self-guid-
Tickets are limited! Order yours online now at ChristmasCapeMay.com (CONTINUED ON PAGE 12) Tour presented by Cape May MAC
In This Issue Coming Attractions....................Page 3-4 From the Director...........................Page 5 Membership News .......................Page 7 Recent Happenings...................... Page 2 Thank You Department........Pages 8-11