Dave and Chris Clemans host An Evening at the Whaler’s Cottage to benefit The Center for Community Arts, June 27 from 6–9 p.m. at 1017 Batts Lane in Lower Township.
The evening features catering from the Washington Inn, an auction of paintings by local artists Dave Clemans, Stan Sperlak, and Laurie Shiffelbein.
Sperlak will also give a plein air demonstration.
Visitors will be able to tour the beautifully restored cottages from 6–7 p.m.
The art auction begins at 7 p.m., followed by a surprise guest appearance.
The Whaler’s Cottage, also known as the Owen Coachman House, is an exceptional example of a free black landowner’s home erected before the Civil War.
Listed in the National Register of Historic Places listings in Cape May County, the Owen Coachman House represents the ante-bellum free black community that had been established in Cape May County in the first half of the 19th century.
Dave and Christina Clemans purchased it in 2004 and restored it to its current beauty.
Tickets for the event are $75 and are available by calling The Center for Community Arts at 609- 884-7525 or by visiting the office at 712 Lafayette St. in Cape May.
Middle Township – If God created the universe and thus the Earth, then he also created all men and women, of all races. If you have hate for other races, or non heterosexual people, then you hate God's own work.
