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John F. Craig House

Calling all sleuthing enthusiasts to our Cape May inn for the annual spring Sherlock Holmes weekend, March 19 – 21, 2010. Dust off your houndstooth cap and clean your pipe, for it is time to solve the “Case of the Demon in the Padded Room”.

If the cap fits...

The Victorian architecture of Cape May sets the perfect mood to solve a Sherlock Holmes mystery. We hope you’ll accent your cap and pipe with full-on Victorian garb, and that you’ll have fun wandering the gaslit streets of Cape May in search of clues. If you can figure out who Madame Reinhart is hiding behind the door to the padded room, you stand to win the $250 grand prize and many other gifts.

The schedule of the Cape May Sherlock Holmes Weekend 2010 is as follows: (more…)

Sherlock Holmes to be in Cape May this weekend

This weekend, November 6 through 8, 2009, Cape May will be stomping its feet to a jazzy beat and trying to solve mysteries with Sherlock Holmes. Those of us here at our Cape May NJ bed and breakfast can’t wait!

The 32nd Annual Cape May Jazz Festival presents a tribute to the incomparable Count Basie. The current incarnation of the Count Basie Orchestra will bring it’s nineteen members to Cape May NJ and swing the night away in true Kansas City style.

Richie Cole on the sax, Barbara King with her dusky voice, and Edgardo Cintron and Inca Band are just a few of the other performers who will be on hand to make Cape May THE place to be this weekend if you appreciate jazz. (more…)