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CAPE MAY - The schedule of events for the Fourth Annual Tulip Festival, Cape May's springtime celebration of the city's Dutch heritage, honored Capt. Cornelius Jacobsen Mey, the Dutch sea captain who gave his name to the area, has been completed. Thousands of tulips have been planted throughout the National Landmark City by businesses, residents, and the city to honor Captain Mey. Sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce and the City of Cape May, the Tulip Festival will feature participation by many community groups and merchants. This year the Tulip Festival will be held Saturday through May 4, with events scheduled nearly every day, including new events on the weekdays. On the weekends, events will be held at the Rotary Bandstand in the center of the tulip gardens on Lafayette Street. In the event of rain, the festival will move to Convention Hall on the Boardwalk at the beachfront. OPENING ceremonies will begin 10 a.m. Saturday with a welcome by Netherlands native Carin Fedderman, president of the Chamber of Commerce. The King and Queen of the Festival, chosen from among local children 8-12 years old ; will be crowned by 1984 Tulip Festival Queen Colleen Sheehan. Entertainment during the festival will include music by the Hoffnagle Band of Wildwood from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, and from 2 to 5 p.m. a special concert by the Old World Folk Band, which features the Internam As with all bulbous flowers the tulip contains its own storage compartment with a food source and modifications for stems and leaves. Tulips are one of the hermaphodite flowers, carrying both male and female reproductive parts and therefore self-pollinating. Both pistals and stamens are located in the center of the bloom.

■ tional folk music of Europe - and especially Holland. THE HOFFNAGLE Band - will also play 12 noon to 4 » p.m. Sunday, April 28. On 1 Saturday, May 4, the Tulip i Festival will also feature a • concert by the Antique Car- ! ousel Organ of W.H Kromer Jr., playing old-fashioned ■ music. : The organ is actually sev- ' eral musical instruments in I one — sounds are made by 1 wooden organ pipes and reed-operated brass trumpI ets, a 20-inch brass drum, : 14-inch snare drum, and ! 11-inch cymbal. ■ Tlje organ automatically i plays a paper music roll; the tunes played include waltzes, fox trots and marches, all old-fashioned mus1 ical selections which will bring back memories of the carousels, carnivals and fairs of old. FOR CHILDREN on the weekends, the Jersey Cape Performing Arts Guild will offer a puppet show based on a Dutch folk tale from a puppet booth set amidst the tulip blooms of the park. For the entire family, the Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts offer its popular Tulip Trolley Tours of town, pointing out the winners of the tulip garden contest. The tours will leave froqi the Rotary Bandstand at Lyle Land from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. this Saturday and May 5, and from noon to 3 p.m. Sunday. The unguided tour will take visitors past the most noteworthy plantings of tulips throughout the city. Over 50,000 tulips bulbs have been planted throughout Cape May, and the village should be abloom from midApril through mid-May with the colorful flowers. ALSO ON weekends, Joanne Reagan's School of dance students will entertain at the Tulip Festival with demonstrations of Klompendansing, the traditional Dutch folk dancing in wooden shoes, and straatwassen or "street washing", the Dutch custom of washing the streets which keeps the tiny country so spotless. Thirty-six boys and girls outfitted in Dutch costumes, including lace hats for the girls, black hats for the boys, and wooden shoes for all, will dance several times each weekend for the festival. THIS SUNDAY, the winners of the Tulip Garden Contest will be announced by Harry Lozour, tulip planting chairman of the Tulip Festival. Judging will V take place by membeis of the festival committee and winning gardens will receive certificates of commendation from the Chamber of Commerce as well as a collection of tulip bulbs. Many of the merchants of Cape May will participate in the Tulip Festival on week-

ends by offering tulip and Dutch-related wares for sale. There will be many varieties of Dutch food for Sale, fr£m Dutch hot-dogs and sauerkraut, apple fritters, and pretzels to Dutch chocolate and cheeses. COOKIES IN the shape of Dutch windmills will be featured as well as juices and cold drinks. Other souvenirs for sale at the Tulip Festival will include imported Dutch Delft tiles and other ceramics, wooden. shoes, Dutch lace privacy screens, called horretjes, quilted tulipshaped jxtt-holders and other crafts, and bedding plants just right for thie garden, as well as pots of tulips in bloom, of course. During the week, the garden clubs and Victorian inns of Cape May will entertain with lectures, teas, and tours. The garden department of the Women's Community Club of Cape May will offer a display of flower arrangements and plants through May 4 at the Welcome Center of Lafayette Street across from the Rotary Bandstand. THE CHAMBER will judge the entries in the display and provide winners with ribbons as prizes. Tuesday, April 30, a Tulip Tea will be offered free of charge by the garden department of the Women's Community Chib at 2 p.m. In addition to tea and cookies, a special slide program "Holland— A Garden of Pictures" will be presented. Thursday, May 2, the Garden Club of Cape May will present Mrs. Charles Miller lecturing on tulips and their cultivation. The lecture, which will also be held at the Welcome Center on Lafayette Street, will be free of charge, and will include tulip punch and cookies provided by the Garden Club. TODAY, Saturday and Sunday, Tuesday, April 30; Thursday. May 2; Saturday, May 4; and Sunday, May 5, four Victorian inns of Cape May, Captain Mey's, The Brass Bed, The Queen Vic*toria, and The Victorian Rose will offer tours of their interiors, including the history of the 19th-century buildings, the story of their recent restoration, and special displays for the Tulip Festival, from stained glass to sugar eggs. The tours will be held at 1 p.m. at Captain Mey-'s and The Queen Victoria, and at V 2 p.m. at The Brass Bed and ^The Victorian Rose. For more information on the tours of the Victorian Inns, contact Captain Mey's Inn at 884-7793. For more information on the Tulip Festival, contact Festival Chairman Carin Fedderman at the Chamber of Commerce office, 884-5508.

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