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Holidays Festive For Victorian City

CAPE MAY - This Victorian village has recently been "discovered" as a wintertime resort, having been a retreat during tbfe summertime for centuries. Today peaceful gas-lit streets with garlands of v greenery decorating por- * d*s and lampposts offer a change from the hustlebustle world. ► Special family-oriented activities from a Christmas parade to a tree-lighting and carolling ceremony are planned to recapture the Victorian aspects of Christmas. THE HOLIDAY season will begin with the Christmas Parade Saturday, Dec. 1, at 7 p.m. on Broadway in West Cape May. A variety of homecrafted and professional floats by churches and civic organizations will be featured, along with the fun of the village fire trucks bedecked With lights. Clowns, bands, and Santa Claus will be marching in the parade, whicMvill conclude with the awarding of trophies and dinting at Borough Hall, 732 Broadway, in West Cape May. The Second Annual Christmas Ball sponsored by the City of Cape Maywill highlight the second weekend in December, Saturday, Dec. 8. The ball will be held in Convention Hall on Beach Drive at 8:30 * p.m. Also sponsored by the p.m. aim) bponsorea uy uie

City of Cape May will be the tree-lighting ceremony and community Christmas Carolling at 7 p.m. at the gingerbreaded bandstand on Lafayette Street in Rotary park. The Minis ten um of Cape May encourages parishioners to continue the tradition of carolling throughout the streets of the city during the holiday season. An ecumenical Christmas service will be held 7:30 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 23, at Our Lady Star of the Sea Chruch on Washington Street featuring the combined choirs of the churches of Cape May. SHOPPING IS easy in Cape May with the shops on Washington Street. The merchants say thank -you to 'tHeir customers on Hospitality Night, Friday, Dec. 14, from 7 to 9 p.m. when refreshments are served to shoppers and strolling ca rollers and Santa Claus himself enlivens the gay scene. The traditional Candlelight Walk on Washington Street, also sponsored by the merchants, is scheduled for Thursday, Dec. 20, from 7 to 9 p.m., when candles at the doorstep and in the shops beckon shoppers to enjoy the refreshments and entertainment of the season while seeking that perfect gift from the variety of shops. Families and groups of friends will enjoy the opportunity to tour Cape May's historic districts on foot or in the heated "trnllpv" whirh imitates

the ones on the village streets a century' ago. The Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts (MAC) offers walking tours every Sunday in December at 10 a.m. from the Victorian information booth on Washington Street Mall, as well as on Saturday, Nov. 24 at 3 p.m. PROVIDING AN enter taining orientation to the village, these tours are especially designed for those who like history close up and in detail . Knowledgeable guides lead visitors on a comfortable stroll down many of the historic streets of Cape May for one and one-half hours, weather permitting. For visitors who would rather sit back and enjoy the sights from the Victorian Trolley, MAC offers weekend combination tours which provide an overview of Cape May's famous Victorian architecture. Scheduled for Saturdays and .Sundays from Thanksgiving weekend through the end of December, the combination tours begin at the Physick Estate, 1048 Washington St., with an hour-long guided trolleytour that covers both the east and the west historic districts of town. Upon returning to the Physick Estate, visitors are next guided through the lavish interior of the Physick House, which is rujsiLft iiuux, niuui m

specially decorated for the holiday season. The tour ends with hot cider and goodies served in the Physick House kitchen. THE HEATED Victorian trolley offers a front-row seat for the spectacle of festive Christmas decorations on its increasinglypopular Christmas Lights Trolley tours. Leaving from the Infor-ma-tion booth on Washington Street Mall at Ocean Street Friday, Dec. 14;. Thursday, Dec. 20; Wednesday, Dec. 26, and Friday, Dec. 28, the guided tours wind throughout the old and new neighborhoods of Cape May to see the specially decorated homes and businesses of the village. A contest sponsored by the Vintage Homes Association is the impetus for many to decorate with lights and special greenery. The tour lasts about one hour. The Victorian decoration on the houses and shops of the city reminds visitors of gingerbread houses, and for those who want to make their very own gingerbread houses, the Chamber of Commerce of Great Cape May is sponsoring a demonstration on the craft of gingerbread house making Friday, Nov. 16 tR 3 p.m. t ' \ Diane Muentz, chef Of Alexander's Restaurant,

will demonstrate how to construct and decorate a gingerbread house and give tips on bow to design a creation or recreation of a Cape May villas. The demonstration will be held in the hall of the Cape Island Baptist Church on Columbia ^venue at Gurney Street. ^ THE FANCIFUL houses in gingerbread, frosting, and decorative candies created by Cape May county cooks will be on display at . the County Art League, in the Carriage House of the Physick Estate, 1050 Washington St., Friday, Dec. 14 through Saturday, Dec. 29, when the ticketholders on the Christmas Candlelight House tour will vote to select the favorite houses. All will be made entirely of gingerbread, and only edible items will be used to decorate them. High point of the holiday season is the Christmas Candlelight House Tour sponsored by MAC 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday. Dec. 29. This gala event is a selfguided tour of more than a dozdli homes and churches specially decorated for this most festive time of the year. The gingerbread houses will be on display during the Candlelight Tour at the Art League and ticket-hol-ders will have the honor of selecting the winning entries. For tickets, $8 for uica. r ui uuvcu, iui

adults and 83 for children in advance, or for more information on this or other MAC tours, write MAC at P.O. Box 164, Cape May, NJ, 08204 or call 884-5404. CHARLES DICKENS' traditional Christmas tale comes to life in Cape May when^he Jersey Cape Performing Arts Guild presents its special version of A Chriatmaa Carol. Directed' by Adriana Warner, the play features all the favorite characters, from Stiooge and Bob CrachiMo the ghosts and of course Tiny Tim. The play will be performed Saturday, Dec. 8. Friday and Saturday, Dec. 14 and 15, and Thursday and Friday, Dec. 28 at 8:30 p.m., except Saturday, Dec. 22, when there will be a 3 p.m. matinee. For seat reservations and thfeater location, call 884-0054. A tradition during the winter season in Cape May is visiting Victorian interiors decked out in Yuletide finery. Four year round inns of Cape May elaborately decorate their interiors, each in a way that tells a different part of the Christmas story: a -children's Christmas at The Brass Bed, 719 Columbia Ave . ; a Dutch Christmas at Captain Mey's Inn, 202 Ocean St.; the history of Victorian decorations at The Queen ^Victoria, 102 Ocean St.; and a floral Christmas at The Victorian Rose, 715 Columbia Ave. IN ADDITION to tours of the Christmas decorations at each inn, special seasonal refreshments are served, from Dutch cookies to Victorian fruitcake. Tours are scheduled in December on Wednesdays staring Dec. 5 from 7 to 9 p.m . and on Saturday afternoons from 2 to 4 p.m., except the -last Saturday, when the tbur is moved to Friday, Dec. 28. Reservations are not necessary. For more information, con-

tact The Queen Victoria at 884-8702. Although the flickering gas lights have been electrified as a price of progress, the illusion lingers on during the "Mansions by Gaslight" tour Tickets may be purchased at the Emlen Physick House. 1048 Washington St., starting at 7 :30 p.m on Saturday evenings Dec. 8, 15. and 22. Visitors may proceed in any order to the four houses on the tour, which includes the Emlen Physick House, a Victorian house museum designed by renowned architect Frank Furness and built in 1881 in the stick style, The Abbey, Columbia Avenue at Gurney Street, built in 1869 for a Pennsylvania coal baron and an outstanding example of Gothic Revival architecture. Also, The Mainstay Inn, 635 Columbia Ave., built in 1872 as a posh gentlemen's gambling ciub and a classic example of the Italianate style with 14-foot ceilings and wrap-around verandahs; and the Wilbraham Mansion, 133 Myrtle Ave., which was begun as a simple country farmhouse in 1840 and expanded and Victorianized in 1900 by a wealthy Philadelphia industrial family. For more information, contact MAC 'at 884-5404.

Muziani Will Speak

WILDWOOD - Assemblyman Guy Muziani, former mayor here, will be featured speaker at the meeting Friday of the New Jersey- Travel and Resorts Association, scheduled for Carroll's Caravelle Inn, Manahawkin. Muziani will speak about problems that have developed in Cape May County as a result of casino gambling including bus traffic from the Wildwood

area to the casinos during the summer. Also appearing at the meeting will be Martin Z Mollusk. Ocean City's relatively famous hermit crab, who will explain how he became a semi-celebrity in just 10 years Victoria Schmidt, state director of tourism, will discuss the state's matching funds program and brochure distribution service.

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JIMMY AND FRIEND / James MacDonald, right, of Del Haven, whose band, Jimmy and Friends, has entertained residents of the Crest Haven Nursing Home for 20 years, was honored last week along with comic Cozy Morley of North Wildwood. Both received trophies from the county in appreication for their visits to the home.

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