The Beach Haven Public Library will host Margaret Thomas Buchholz on Friday, Sept. 11 at 1 p.m. as the local author and historian presents a slide show and readings from her 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. The book concludes with the opening of the Garden State Parkway in 1955, which brought many more people and rapid development to the shore.