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Cottages Schedule Tuliptime Tours

CAPE "MAY - Four of the city’s year ’round Victorian Bed and Breakfast inns have scheduled special tours to coincide with Cape May’s annual Tulip Festival this spring. The Brass Bed, Captain Mey’s Inn, The Queen Victoria, and The Victorian Rose, nearby neighbors in the middle of the Historic District will open their doors for special tours and displays Monday, April 23, Wednesday, April 25, Saturday, April 28, Sunday, April 29, Wednesday, May 2, Saturday, May 5 and Sunday, May 6. The "Cottages at Tuliptime” tour will begin 1 p.m.

at The Brass Bed, 719 Columbia Ave., when innkeepers John and Donna Dunwoody will welcome visitors to their home, built in 1872 and now authentically restored and operated as a bed and breakfast inn. Hie Dunwoodys will tell the story of their restoration of the building. A special display of works by local artists will be featured, including architecture features in watercolors, acrylics, and oils. The tour will then proceed next door to The Victorian Rose, 715 Columbia Ave., where Bob and Linda Mullock, innkeepers, will welcome visitors to their

1872 home, and show off a collection of old-fashioned dolls in the colonial and Victorian styles made of porcelain. The antique dolls will fit comfortably into the romantic parlor of The Victorian Rose. FROM 2 TO J p.m., the tour will continue at The Queen Victoria, 102 Ocean St., where Joan and Dane Wells, innkeepers, will usher guests into their restored 1881 Italianate villa and show off a display of-Victorian style decorated sugar eggs, including panoramic eggs made especially for the Easter season. Captain Mey’s Inn, 202 Ocean St., will be the final calling point of the tour, where innkeepers Carin Fedderman and Milly LaConfora will guide

visitors through the history of their home, which was named for Captain Cornelius Jacobsen Mey, the founder of Cape May. They will have as their special display an exhibit of stained glass works by a local artisan, also wood carvings from the Dutch Indies. Tickets to the tour, are available at any of the four inns. Each inn will have hundreds of tulips blooming in its gardens in honor of the annual Tulip Festival. Special weekday rates are in effect at all four inns and minimum stay requirements will be in effect on the weekends. For reservations, contact each individual inn; for more information on the "Cottages at Tuliptime” tours contact Joan Wells at 884-8702.

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SOMERS POINT - The curtain will go up tonight on opening night of South Jersey Regional Theatre’% prodAction of "Starting Here, Starting Now”, a musical revue about love penned by the Broadway team of Richard Maltby Jr. and Da'rid Shire. SJRT’s production will feature Sally Ann Swarm, Barbara Richardson, and Richard Roemer fresh from New York roles. “Starting Here, Starting Now” will have performances Wednesday through Saturday evenings

and Sunday matinees through April 15. For ticket reservations and information call the SJRT box office at 653-0553. Three additional members have been selected for the board of directors of the theatre. Coming on to the board will be Anthony T. Catanoso, Director of the Wildwood NJ Convention Center; Linda Pope of Art Williams Posters and Displays, Inc. of Atlantic City; and Naomi Taylor, secretarytreasurer of Douglass Industries of Egg Harbor City.

Talk Slated By Doctor

COURT HOUSE - A general meeting of the Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital Auxiliary will be held 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 5, in the hospital cafeteria. All members and guests are invited to attend the session, which will feature a talk by Marvin Podolnick, M.D. Dr Podolnick, who is immediate past president of

the BTMH Medical Staff and assistant chief of radiology, will discuss the hospital’s recent progress in meeting the health care needs of the county. His special focus will be the benefits offered by the state-of-the-art CAT Scan and other computer-age technology in the BTMH Radiology/Diagnostic Im aging Department.

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