The Beach Haven Public Library will host Margaret Thomas Buchholz on Friday, Oct. 25 at 1 p.m. as the author and historian presents a slide show and readings from her classic books Shore Chronicles: Diaries and Traveler’s Tales from the Jersey Shore 1764-1955 and Island Album: Photographs and Memories of Long Beach Island.

Shore Chronicles is a collection of personal stories beginning with adventure travel when the shore was still a wild frontier.