When it comes to recreation in South Jersey, some things are constant. Among these changes, men and women no longer must use separate beaches in Cape May County.
Women can jog in public.
And flower-filled gardens grow outside modest homes. At one time, only the wealthy were free to pursue now-common leisure activities, says Edward Cialella, director of athletics at the Camden campus of Rutgers University. They're going to an exploration of who they are. Obviously, not all of our leisure activities date to colonial times. Native Americans also visited the Shore's barrier islands to gather food and hunt in the isolated wilderness, says Paul Anselm, president of the Ocean City Historical Museum.