Lovers of LBI: Looking for that special gift this holiday season? A perfect solution is a new book, Local Color: Long Beach Island’s Photographic History Reimagined  by Leslee Ganss and Ray Fisk of Down The Shore Publishing. The hardcover book contains 145 hand-colored photographs of LBI dating from the 1870s to the 1980s, enhanced with snippets from history.

“In selecting the images for hand-coloring, we were constantly drawn to scenes that revealed daily activities without pretense – the…