Independence Days

All events are tentatively scheduled and may change. Please see the CMCL Events Calendar on our website, follow us on social media, and subscribe to our weekly eNewsletter for any and all updates. Independence Days - Surprising summers from America’s Gilded Age: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s “A Gala Dress” Fourth-of-July fireworks and a prying neighbor threaten two sisters‘ long-held secret Belle Brittan shares her 1857 visit to Cape May—where young ladies and gents mingle daringly on the same beach! O. Henry’s “The Lickpenny Lover” In which a rich, sheltered bachelor falls for a worldly-wise shopgirl . . .and confusion ensues Actress Michèle LaRue revels in writings from America’s Gilded Age. Her repertoire of Tales Well Told was born 30 years ago, in Cape May. Here, she and others performed vintage short stories on porches and in parlors for the original East Lynne Company. Michèle has toured her&nb

All Ages