A satisfyingly chunky new coffee table book from Down The Shore Publishing brings to life the colorful history of a barrier island, its people and environs, from the 1870s through the 1980s. Local Color: Long Beach Island’s Photographic History Reimagined is a hardcover, 288-page curated collection of hand-colored images and carefully selected words.

Publishers and husband-wife team Ray Fisk and Leslee Ganss, based in West Creek, said their goal is to present monochrome local history…