Daily News | Nuns’ sprawling former Cape May beach retreat opens as science center to the public
, and other groups. Burcher said it’s only the center’s first year of studies, but it already has launched a number of research projects, on birds, monarch butterflies, horseshoe crabs, and dolphins.
Burcher touched a screen at the center and up popped a display for a sharp-shinned hawk named Dave. Visitors can operate the screen and see locations of animals tagged for the research in real time.nonprofit Conservation Science Global The interactive screen showed that Dave the hawk had been at the South Cape May Meadows preserve in the fall and as far south as Cuba. Burcher located Dave in a forest in New Brunswick, Canada, on a recent day. In all, the bird has been tracked 4,536 miles.Saint Mary by-the-Sea has a storied history, and stands on the location of what was originally the Shoreham Hotel, built in 1889, according to ansponsored by the Chestnut Hill-based Sisters of Saint Joseph.
In 1909, the Sisters of St. Joseph, aided by the Rev. Daniel I. McDermott, pastor of St. Mary’s Church in Philadelphia, bought the property for $9,000. The sisters added crosses to the roof. The ballroom became the chapel. The restDuring World War II, retreats were halted while the sisters leased the property to the federal government for $1 a year for use as a barracks. The retreat became a key U.S. base as German U-boats routinely patrolled the coast and fired at ships.
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