VOLUME LII, ISSUE 2
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SPRING 2022
Cape May MAC tour becomes part of NPS app
The Cape May Music Festival begins May 1 with a Jazz Brunch and ends June 30 with the entire Bay Atlantic Symphony performing at Cape May Convention Hall ... 15 concerts in eight weeks!
Cape May Music Festival all live in 2022 Cape May MAC’s 33rd annual Cape May Music Festival begins May 1 with 15 indoor and outdoor music events over eight weeks
After mostly virtual concerts in 2020 and a hybrid of virtual and in-person concerts in 2021, this year’s 33rd annual Cape May Music Festival, presented by Cape May MAC (Museums+Arts+Culture), brings back an all-live, in-person, indoor and outdoor (CONTINUED ON PAGE 14)
Exhibit and tour theme for 2022 highlight working life on the estate A new exhibit opening at the Carroll Gallery and the new 2022-23 tour theme during guided tours of the Physick House Museum both focus on working life at the Emlen Physick Estate and begin May 27. The Carroll Gallery exhibit is titled “The Victorian Toolbox: Necessities, Curiosities, Frivolities” and will be offered daily from Friday, May 27-Monday, Oct. 31. See this exhibit of the tools that Dr. Physick and his staff would have used on the estate in the 19th and early 20th century, along with some of the luxury items the family used. Learn about the realities of working life for (CONTINUED ON PAGE 11)
Cape May MAC (Museums+Arts+Culture) will soon be part of a National Park Service (NPS) app called “Travel with Tubman,” a new and exciting feature that is part of the existing NPS app that features national parks across the country. The program honors the 200th anniversary year in 2022 of Harriet Tubman’s birth. The app consists of information about 13 sites important to Harriet from across the country, with details on each and a map designed for users to visit all of them. This is the first time the NPS has created an app that connects various sites around the nation. The Cape May MAC/Center for Community Arts (CCA) Underground Railroad Trolley Tour is a Network to Freedom member, a minimum qualification for inclusion in the new app, and the tour was chosen from among many sites across the country. “With hundreds of sites across the country that relate to Harriet Tubman, it is a great honor that our Underground Railroad Trolley Tour was chosen by NPS to be included as one of the 13 sites in Travel with Tubman,” said Cape May MAC Board Member Barbara Dreyfuss, who was instrumental in researching and writing the Underground Railroad Trolley Tour, a very popular tour since its inaugural year in 2017, and who successfully applied to (CONTINUED ON PAGE 13)
In This Issue
Alice Johnson, the Physick family’s cook, is shown here at the back of the house with one of the Physick family’s dogs.
Coming Attractions.................... Page 3-5 Donor Profile.............................Pages 6-7 From the Director...........................Page 8 Membership News ......................Page 9 Recent Happenings...................... Page 2 Thank You Department.........Pages 9-11
