Holiday private homes tours

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For those looking for a festive daytime tour, the Holiday Inns Tours is your ticket to step inside several Cape May properties decorated for the holidays with garland, bows, trees and more! You’ll get into the Christmas spirit as you tour these festively decorated Cape May landmark properties. This is a self-guided tour, so please bring your ticket to the Washington Street Mall Information Booth at the junction of Washington and Ocean Streets and get a copy of the map. A trolley shuttle will make continuous loops during this self-guided afternoon tour. Offered Mondays through Thursdays, Dec. 4-14 from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Click here for tickets.

Stroll the gaslit streets of Cape May in the evening on the Lamplighter Christmas Tours. See inside a selection of Cape May’s bed & breakfast inns and private homes, specially decorated for the holidays on this self-guided walking tour that includes a visit to An Old-fashioned Christmas Exhibit in the Carroll Gallery at the Physick Estate Carriage House. Offered 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on select dates. Click here for tickets.

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Carroll Gallery Exhibit: “Line in the Sand: Segregated Beaches in Cape May and Atlantic City” opens Jan. 12

Landmark City. This tour celebrates the best of Cape May at Christmas, as you travel Cape May’s gaslit streets, hear musicians and carolers, and visit homes, inns, B&Bs, churches and hotels where you’ll step inside to see both Victorian and more modern interiors beautifully decorated for the holidays. Don’t miss this, Cape May’s longest running, favorite Christmas tour, on three Saturdays, Dec. 2, 9 and 16, from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Tickets sell fast, so get

Photo courtesy of Center for Community Arts

A new exhibit opening Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend explores the segregated beaches of Cape May and Atlantic City prior to the civils rights era. See Grant Street Beach through historic photos from West Cape May families and original artwork by Cape May County artist Chanelle René, and Chicken Bone Beach in Atlantic City through historic photos from the Chicken Bone Beach Historical Foundation, and learn how people of color enjoyed their time at these beaches, despite the harsh racial divide. Shown here, ca. 1955, waitresses and other workers had Sundays off and take time to enjoy the beach. Exhibit is in the Carroll Gallery on the grounds of the Physick Estate, 1048 Washington St. Open Jan. 12-March 25, 2024, with an opening reception Jan. 15, 2024. Free admission.