Dr. Robert Heinly To Be the Next Featured Speaker at the Nature Center Oct. 24

CAPE MAY — Today, it is known as The Coast Guard Training Center (TRACEN) of Cape May, the only such training center in the U.S. Coast Guard. Interestingly, the land that today serves as TRACEN was created as a by-product to a development scheme during the early 20th Century. By the beginning of World War I in 1917, the scheme had gone bust, but the U.S. Navy, knowing a good thing when it saw it moved right in and took over the recently reclaimed land at Sewell’s Point. There’s been a military presence there ever since.
But there’s more to Cape May’s military legacy. There is the bunker on the beach near the light house bracketed by two old turret foundations, a WWII spotting tower, a mysterious long forgotten bunker on Schellenger’s Landing and, the Cape May Canal. Come out on Tues. evening, Oct. 24 at 6:00 p.m. as Dr. Robert Heinly fills in the blanks and addresses our group with an illustrated presentation on the topic of Cape May in World Wars I and II. Dr. Heinly is the Director of Museum Education for the MidAtlantic Center for the Arts and Humanities, or MAC.