Due to the Memorial Day holiday, the scrabble game will be held on Wednesday, May 28 rather than May 26. June play dates will return to Mondays, June 9 and June 23.

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A congressional hearing was held on a bill written by Congressman Jim Saxton that would impose a moratorium on commercial Atlantic menhaden fishing to shore up the populations of one of the most important fish in the sea.

The House Fisheries, Wildlife and Oceans Subcommittee, of which Saxton is a senior member, met Thursday to review H.R. 3840, the bill to impose a partial moratorium on menhaden fishing while more research is conducted on the health of the fish population.

The Cape May Film Society’s Memorial Day film program will be a great addition to your holiday plans, right after the parades and picnics.
The program is entitled “Hollywood Goes to War,” and the featured speaker is Hollywood actor/screenwriter JC Stinson, who says if you think the program will be all about combat, you’d be mistaken.

Erin Callahan and Merritt Reid in "You and I"

The return of two of last year's hits, three 1920's comedies, a musical revue, a magic show, three world premiers—it’s all in one jam-packed season at the Equity professional East Lynne Theater Company, New Jersey's home for American stage classics, now celebrating its 28th year.

Wildwood, Wildwood Crest and North Wildwood all are being named among New Jersey's Top Ten Beaches in a public survey completed this spring by the New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium (NJMSC), working in conjunction with New Jersey Sea Grant, the Richard Stockton College Coastal Research Center and the New Jersey Division of Travel and Tourism.
Official rankings will be announced by NJMSC on May 22.

The Bay-Atlantic Symphony will perform at Congress Hall during the Cape May Music Festival, and the concerts are likely to be standing room only.
After Cape May Convention Hall was declared structurally unsound and closed its doors, the Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts (MAC) was forced to find new venues for the 19th annual Cape May Music Festival, which runs through Sunday, June 15.

Pinkudi Nath from the Merasi Group dancing "gumar."

The Down Jersey Folklife Center at WheatonArts will present, “Folk To Classic! Dances of India,” May 24 at 7 p.m.
The performance opens “Old Ways In A New Place: Celebrating Indian Traditions And Culture In New Jersey,” an eight-month celebration of Indian and Indian-American arts and culture at WheatonArts.

Experience an eclectic mix of music from around the world including Irish, jazz, brass band, gospel, and Klezmer and Middle-Eastern folk music during the popular World Traditions series at the 19th Annual Cape May Music Festival, presented by the Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts (MAC).

Piano babies at least offered the pretense of serving a useful purpose.

The piano baby is one of the most endearing relics of Victorian consumer culture.
By the late-19th Century, if you built a house, it needed to have a music room, which needed a piano, which needed a shawl to keep it dust free, which needed something to keep the silk thing from slipping off.
That thing was an adorable bisque porcelain figurine called the piano baby.