45th Anniversary Commemorative Book November 2015 | Page 18

MAC Timeline
MAC
years
1970 - 2015
1970-2015

(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 17)

2006 January: Opening of “A Feeling of Community:  

2007

2008

     Education and Segregation on Cape Island”
    Exhibit
May: Opening of “Back to the Fifties: The Life and Times
    of Doo Wop Design” Exhibit
September: Opening of “Victoriana A to Z” Exhibit
November: Opening of first “Old-Fashioned Christmas”
     Exhibit
      -First Ghosts of Christmas Past Trolley Ride
     -First Santa’s Trolley Ride
      -First Community Tree Lighting at the
     Physick Estate
January: Opening of “Small Towns, Black Lives-African
     American Communities in New Jersey” Exhibit
February-May: First “Song to Symphony” Music
       Festival educational outreach project
April: Debut of “Consuming Passions: Victorians &
    Their Food,” the first themed tour in the
   Physick Estate
May: Opening of “Here Comes the Bride: Weddings in
   America” Exhibit
August: Debut of MAC’s second website
September: Opening of “Consuming Passions:
     Victorians and their Food” Exhibit
October: First Scarecrow Alley at the Physick Estate

-First Phantoms of the Physick Estate Tour

-First Midnight at the Physick Estate Tour

-First Madame’s Parmentier’s Psychic Tea
January: Opening of “Proudly We Serve: Our African
     American Military Service from the Civil War
    Forward” Exhibit
April: Opening of “Mediums Well Done: The World of
    Victorian Spiritualism” Exhibit
    - Launching of Cape May Gift Certificate program
August: First National Lighthouse Day Celebration at
     the Cape May Lighthouse
September: First Board-organized fund-raising gala

2009 May: Debut of “Visit Cape May,” MAC’s

2010

first
   Facebook page
July: MAC receives PNC Arts Alive grant for the
   Cape May Music Festival
October: First historical lecture: “Shackleton’s Way”
    -150th Anniversary celebration at the
     Cape May Lighthouse
November: Adoption of new name: The Mid-Atlantic  
      Center for the Arts & Humanities
      -Opening of the first Dickens Village Christmas
     Exhibit
January: Opening of “Black, Blue & True: to the Tune of
    Inspiration” exhibit
April: Opening of “Glowing: Cape May Stained Glass”
   exhibit
    -Debut of “On the Town” themed tour in the
   Physick Estate
    -First Chocolate Championship Tour & Tasting
May: First annual Armed Forces day Celebration at the
   World War II Lookout Tower
June: Debut of Murder at the Physick Estate
August: Launch of the “Friends of the World War II
    Lookout Tower”
November: Launch of the “Friends of the Cape May   
     Lighthouse”
     -Launch of the “Friends of the Physick Estate”

2011 January: Opening of “Can I Get A Witness?” Exhibit

April: Debut of “Victorian Health and Fitness” theme
    tour in the Physick Estate
    -Opening of “Remembering South Cape May”
    Exhibit
July: First “Family Fun Days” at the Cape May
   Lighthouse

2012 January: Opening of “Schools for the Colored” Exhibit

2009 January: Opening of “Family Tree: The Continuous

     Circle of Life of the First Local Free Black
    Settlements” Exhibit
February: First Cape May Wine Trail
March: Opening of the World War II Lookout Tower
April: Opening of “What Were They Thinking: 160 Years
    of Bad Taste” Exhibit
    -Debut of “HERstory” themed tour in the
    Physick Estate
    -Debut of Volunteer of the Month Program
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April: Debut of “What Those Victorian Wore” theme
    tour in the Physick Estate
    -Opening of “Cape May’s 20th Century
   Renaissance” Exhibit
    -First “Girlfriends Getaway Weekend”
May: Dedication of All Veterans Memorial at the
   World War II Lookout Tower
June: Debut of “Nuts & Bolts” Tour of the Physick Estate

-First “Clueless at the Physick Estate”
August: First “Craft Beer & Crab Festival”
October: First Lessons of History Lecture: “Ronald
     Reagan’s Legacy: Lessons for Today’s
    Citizen Leaders”