Victorian Week

To Start Friday Victorian Week: A Look Back 1

CAPE MAY - Welcome to Victorian Week, the city's annual Fall Festival. Each year, visitors come to celebrate the heritage of the nation's oldest seaside resort. This year's Victorian Week, a 10-day event sponsored by the Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts (MAC).

will be held from Friday through Sunday. During Victorian Week, visitors are invited to preview Victorian swimwear and evening wear at the period fashion shows, to be guests at a lawn party on the grounds of the Physick Estate, to partake in a Victorian vaudeville show, to take house tours and enjoy the unique architecture for which the town is famous. ALSO. TO PARTICIPATE in a restoration workshop and learn some tips from experts, to attend the antiques and crafts shows to find coliectabies or handmade items, and to partake in a Glorious Victorian Dinner and Concert. The Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts, a non-profit historic preservation and cultural organization, began this Victorian festival in the early 1970s to emphasize this increasingly popular period of our country's heritage. HIGHLIGHTS of Victorian Week: During Victorian Week, visitors may choose from a wide assortment of tours. This is a chance to see the interiors of those fascinating restored homes lining quaint village streets. Dozens of buildings will be open on Saturdays. Oct. -12 and 19. and Sundays, Oct. 13 and 20. Monday evening. Oct. 14. a Cottages At Twilight Tour will open five of Cape May's most charming Victorian homes to the public: on Wednesday evening. Oct. 16. a Mansions by Gaslight Tour will open four Victorian landmarks. THE VICTORIAN Tour and Tea on Thursday afternoon, Oct. 17. will feature six of Cape May's famous guest houses. Walking and Trolley Tours of the Historic District will be offered daily throughout the 10 days of Victorian Week. There will even be special evening Stained Glass Tours, with the glass specially lit for the occasion. scheduled Sunday. Oct. 13, and Saturday. Oct 19. FRIDAY AND Saturday, many top antique dealers from throughout the Northeast will display their coliectabies at Congress Hall. This opportunities to take Victorian treasures home. October 18 and 19. craftspeople will display their handmade crafts at the an-

nual Crafts Show at Congress Hall. Pottery, weaving. fine furniture, glass i and much more will be i shown. ON THE GROUNDS of i the Physick Estate, visitors will be transported to another time as clothing i from the Victorian era is modeled by local residents Monday. Oct. 14. through Friday. Oct. 18. illustrated lectures will be offered by some of the country's top restoration experts enabling participants to learn the "how-tos" for different restoration efforts. OLD-TIME vaudeville, from ragtime piano to Victorian parlor songs, will be presented Saturday at Convention Hall. The popular "Song, Verse and Worse" will be presented the following Saturday even-

ing, Oct. 19. at the Cape Island Baptist Church. In the lavish dining room of the turn-of-the-century Christian Admiral Hotei, guests will enjoy a Glorious Victorian Dinner and Concert. a gourmet meal with fine entertainment provided by the H.B. Smith Cornet Band and Rancocas Punch this Saturday Guests may come in Victorian costuipe. Reservations are required. Authorities from throughout the region deliver fascinating and often amusing illustrated presentations about many aspects of Victorian life — t ranging from Currier & j Ives to how to decorate a \ Victorian house to Cape May's history and architecture.

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