MEMORABLE SOUVENIRS
Bring back a little piece of your vacation with you
boardwalks in shore towns make their own
candies – you can watch them beat the
fudge in huge copper bowls, taste a few
delicious flavors and then stock up for the
trip home.
Looking for something really unusual?
Bay Springs Farm in Lower Township sells
alpaca fiber from their own herd that’s per-
fect for hand spinning and crafts. The farm
shears the alpaca herd in May and offer the
alpaca fiber in a variety of colors. Rather
cook than read? Several bed and breakfast
inns and popular restaurants have com-
piled their customers’ favorite recipes into
great cookbooks. Cape May Cooks is one;
another is The Washington Inn Cooks for
Friends that combines more than 300
recipes plus Alice Steer Wilson’s beautiful
watercolors on the cover and inside.
Put that digital camera to good use and
snap a few pics of the family with Lucy the
Elephant, a 65-foot wooden elephant on
the beach in Margate. Lucy is well over a
O
K, SO YOUR VACATION City’s heyday, Cape May’s Victoriana, hundred years old so you’re sure to look
is almost over and it’s time to – Wildwood’s Doo Wop era and even the Jer- pretty young in comparison. Ever had
reluctantly –shake the sand from sey Devil. Cape May County – Through visions of Burt Parks crooning “There she is,
your sandals and fold up your beach chair. Our Eyes, recently published by The Press Miss America” to you? That might be wish-
Before you leave, though, how about a lit- of Atlantic City, spans more than 200 years ful thinking but the venerable Mr. Parks is
tle Sex on the Beach or a Pep Me Up, of history with photos, newspaper front in the garden area outside the Sheraton,
Cool Me Down tub tea bath? pages and snippets of information. The crown in hand, ready for a photo-op. Inside
Sound a little racy for Victorian Cape Press did a similar book a year ago about the hotel there’s a fascinating museum of
May? Oh, for heaven’s sake, keep it clean – Atlantic County –both are great souvenirs Miss America gowns, shoes, photos, and
which is exactly the motto of A Place on or gifts for anyone who lives or vacations at memorabilia.
Earth, where those scents and more are the Jersey Shore. Check out your favorite Another older gentleman – but still look-
concocted right on the Washington Street book stores –most have a section or special ing pretty spiffy with his monocle and top
Mall. Soaps, salts, scrubs and lotions have display devoted to local authors and local hat –is Mr. Peanut, seated on a park bench
mouthwatering names that sound good subjects. in Kennedy Plaza. He still gets around in
enough to eat – Cuban Mojito, Fresh his Nutmobile so keep an eye out for this
Cucumber, Tangerine Chamomile –plus Wine Candy & More: Local wineries goober character, an Atlantic City icon.
so many more that’s it’s hard to decide. offer an amazing selection of wines made
Once you’re squeaky clean and smelling from grapes grown in their own vineyards Art Work:Many local artists, both profes-
divine, maybe you need to think about a then bottled and labeled right here in sional and amateur do a fabulous job cap-
little something for your friends back home Southern New Jersey. Renault’s, Cape May turing the ambiance of this area. One of
who fed the cat and picked up the mail or Winery, Natali Vineyards, Tomasello and the most popular is Patricia Rainey who
your in-laws who volunteered to babysit for others will even give you taste before you will fill your home with beautiful watercol-
a few days. Believe me, there are dozens of decide on a few favorites to take home. ors of all your favorite spots in the greater
great gifts and souvenir possibilities – all Legend has it that salt water taffy was the Cape May area – lighthouses, bed and
with a local touch – but just remember, first Atlantic City souvenir. And how, you breakfast inns, porches, historic buildings
most of them are so great you won’t want may wonder, did this confection get its and more – matted, framed and ready to
to part with them. name? Quite by accident, it seems, when a hang. Her piece d’resistance is Victorian
high tide brought a sea spray over a young Wonderland, an 80-page coffee table book
Books:The list is endless, from wonderful- candy merchant’s supply of candy. No mat- filled with dozens of her watercolors and a
ly illustrated books for youngsters to ghost ter how true the story may – or may not – brief history of each image. Pick up her
tales, books about famous storms and ship- be, salt water taffy has been a favorite treat annual calendar with familiar places
wrecks, well-known people, birding guides since the 1880s. Don’t forget the fudge – around town –and you can count the days
and books filled with history – Atlantic most fudge and candy shops along the until it’s vacation time once again! a73
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