Shore Musings: Halloween Brings People Together
“Shore Musings” is the editor’s column about life in Cape May County.
October 23, 2023
“Shore Musings” is the editor’s column about life in Cape May County.
At the premier for a local documentary on Middle Township, “300 Years in the Middle,” a man walked up to my family and asked: have you heard of kites?
I know well the isolation that car-lessness brings. But because I live year-round in Cape May County, I also know the joy that a walkable neighborhood affords.
Hermit crabs – their shells made pretty with toxic paint – are a kind of default gift here on the shore. Like fudge.
Christmas has an easily identifiable aesthetic that most of us love. Why not trot it out twice?
Train lines once dotted the streets of nearly every major shore town on our peninsula.
Packs of feral cats can be found all around Cape May County. That’s a terrible reality for cats and everything they prey upon.
In Wildwood tradition, bootlegs of Sunny the Seagull – last year’s Morey’s plush that took the shore by storm – have begun to flock along the boardwalk.
Cape May County’s movie theater drought is finally over. Let’s keep it that way.
“When 6th grade began, and we ‘aged out’ of this tradition, I was reminded – painfully – that adulthood creeped ever-nearer.”
… but those celebrities really don’t have anything on the cast of characters who used to haunt Cape May.
“Crushed,” or “elongated” pennies still hide in corners across Cape May County.
We’re lucky to have beautiful laws all around Cape May County. Here’s a list of the best lawns that I’ve come across; just keep in mind that I’m not all-knowing or all-seeing!
The evening beach clouds that haunt the Atlantic sometimes come together to resemble the plumage of an atomic bomb or the violent skies of an old cowboy painting.
By Collin Hall, Editor / Graphic by Emily Hadorn for Do the Shore – My high school girlfriend would nag
